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https://cms9files.revize.com/richfieldmn/04-12-2022%20Council%20Work%20Session.pdf Tomorrow night: "Introductory presentation of redevelopment proposal for the HUB Shopping Center by representatives of Brixmor Property Group." Owner of Richfield’s Hub Shopping Center eyes major redevelopm...

Phase 2 of the residential portion SW of the tracks & Blake road has been announced. https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2022/03/22/hopkins-trilogy-development-blake-road-station.html *UNLOCKED* Phase 1 began construction in Dec. with a 220 unit apartment & 2100 sq ft of retail. Phas...

Welp! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://finance-commerce.com/2022/03/two-year-old-parking-ramp-at-msp-needs-corrective-work/ I wish everyone had to deal with the freeze/thaw cycle/issues we have here in the rest of the USA. It's insane the engineering that goes into things here that still get destroyed, while othe...

Bloomington Ave is having the bridge over Minnehaha reconstructed. I thought I saw somewhere the park department wanted to rework the intersection here. Too bad they are just reconstructing the bridge and not replacing it with one that would allow the parkway and pedestrian paths to go under Bloomi...

From development page on city of SLP website: https://www.stlouispark.org/government/departments-divisions/community-development/development-projects/beltline-development *7-story mixed-use building with 6 levels of market rate housing (156 units) and approximately 20,000 square feet of neighborhoo...

Few other thoughts: The stop at 76th and Knox serves Best Buy's headquarters, but it wasn't at all clear to me how employees would get to the buildings, the stop doesn't seem to be near the main entrances. Hopefully Best Buy might improve access in the future. There stop is also at the back of a Di...

17-story apartment project pitched for Dinkytown
https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/ ... ytown.html
*UNLOCKED*

Considering NLX is shovel ready, what are the chances Amtrak dedicates some of the funding they received from the infrastructure bill toward it and construction finally begins? Just an FYI, the passed legislation is different than past recovery legislation: "Unlike previous federal programs th...

Hines breaks ground on tall apartment, office building in Minneapolis' North Loop https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2021/11/04/north-loop-green-construction-begins.html Houston-based developer Hines announced Thursday that it broke ground on the project, called North Loop Green, this week...

CP + KCS merger expected to significantly increase freight traffic on the MSP-La Crosse portion of the line, though most of that increase will continue south on the river to Sabula for connection to Kansas City. https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/cp-and-kcs-project-dramatic-rise-in-d...

Greystar’s 617-unit Prospect Park apartment pitch up for environmental review *UNLOCKED* An ambitious plan to bring more than 600 apartments and new retail offerings to the Prospect Park Neighborhood in Minneapolis is moving ahead with the launch of an environmental review process. Greystar Develop...

In an ideal world everything south of 494 should be up for discussion and rerouting. The current route has ended up being an inefficient mess that has been caused by the need to put on band aid after band aid from short sided and narrow minded decision after decision. If you asked 100 area stakehol...

The Gasthof property (half a block, 1.2 acres) is for sale for $3.1MM. At that price they are definitely targeting redevelopment, not someone to take over and run the restaurant. The description in the listing confirms. https://www.edinarealty.com/commercial-real-estate-for-sale/2300-university-ave...

Noticed a couple weeks ago fencing going up around the dentist office across the street from cub. Hopefully something good is happening. Looks to me like they are adding an addition. They've dug a hole on the west side of the building and have the dirt piled in front of the existing building. The a...

The big crane is back this week lifting the supports for the 2nd level into place.

Reuter Walton is proposing an 86-unit affordable apartment building on the north side of the Midtown Greenway between 11th & 12th, near the Midtown Exchange building.
https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/ ... ments.html

I'm all for improving bus service on Lake Street, but there's a rail trench 1 block away, which should be a priority too.

Locked Finance & Commerce article says this is back moving forward and should break ground by Fall.
https://finance-commerce.com/2021/06/af ... -for-fall/

Oh, right, the northwest corner of 46th and Minnehaha (4554 Minnehaha). I was just guessing it would just be a redo of the parking lot when I went by several days ago, but maybe it's something more. Had that been a service station in a previous life? Maybe they're doing some environmental cleanup? ...