urbanMSP

Does anyone here have any experience with the various management companies in Stevens Square/the north part of Whittier? I've been looking into them and hearing mixed things, but it's hard to tell how much of that is real and how much of that is just people who are afraid of cities and "urban&q...

Honestly, if anything, the violence last night was egged on by the absolutely ham-handed and insane police presence and tactics.

Crossing Central at this address is awful; the only crosswalk is a fair way down the block, and cars really zoom through here. Hopefully if this development goes through, it'll prompt the city to look at some improvements here.

City planner unconcerned Minneapolis city planner Haila Maze, the lead author of the small-area plan, labeled the scenario a “technicality.” She said it likely won’t affect the small-area plan or the ongoing historical study. “While the organization wasn’t formally formed, there was a bunch of peop...

But what about in your backyard?

Whose backyard is the Suburban World in?

Reminds me of the City Market in Charleston: http://thecharlestoncitymarket.com

Could be a great space for all sorts of things if someone renovated it.

Would that really be a huge loss? I'm always amazed by just how much street parking there is in this city, especially on arterial streets like Hennepin.

Honestly, as a grad student who sometimes eats at the restaurants that Doran wants to demolish, I don't really mind the idea of the demolitions themselves. What I'm really afraid of, though, is that the rents on the ground-floor commercial spaces would be too high for those kinds of smaller restaura...