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Most of NFL revenue is TV contract money. And that money is used to pay players’ salaries. Taxes on players’ salaries will add $14 million to Minnesota coffers this year. This number increases annually by 5% or so as the salary cap grows. Next year it’ll be nearly $15 million, in 10 years it’ll be $...

I think we can be fairly certain that this is indeed an image of Ryan’s air rights building. That looks like a 5-level parking ramp within the liner parcel. And that’d be the logical place for them to add parking, given the fact that they’ve been shut out of the stadium ramp.

The reason why students do so well in Minnetonka is because the students come from homes with ample resources. Not because the administration is particularly adept. That's why people mock their back patting. The district figured out years ago that if they increased enrollment, the cost per student ...

My kids have been enrolled in this district since 1998. We fully understand education issues in our city. That’s why so many Minnetonka kids (encouraged by their parents) want to make sure poor and/or minority kids get additional help. Every week for the last 17 years, hundreds of Minnetonka student...

An Olympic Downhill requires a 3,000 ft. vertical drop (roughly). The largest hill in the midwest (Lutsen) has a vertical drop of only 825 ft. So I think that pretty much rules Duluth out.

Why is it not possible? A track needs an area of at least 200 x 120 yds. TCF’s floor is only about 130 x 80. We’d have to remove more than half of the lower bowl seating - along with all of the locker rooms, offices and storage underneath - to accomodate a track. US Bank’s floor is even smaller, so...

We've got stadia out the whazoo

Indeed. And it’s not possible to remodel either TCF or US Bank to accommodate track and field. So if we wanted the summer olympics, we'd have to build yet another stadium.

Yep. Note the third item here...

http://www.vikings.com/news/new-stadium ... bd202c9f23

Zygi also bought lights to illuminate the interior in various colors that’ll seep through the roof and clerestory. So at night the building will glow continually, top to bottom, inside and out.

But is Sarasota development being inhibited at all? There are a lot of complaints from developers in that article, but even with the new rules there’s a 1,999 home development, a 5,100 home development, and a 1,563 home development in the works.

Require developments prove their tax base supports the infrastructure given to the city before cities and counties approve them.

But does that have an appreciable effect? It seems like that’d just be a speed bump on the road to development.

But what about the farmer who just wants to sell his land and retire?

I’ve often wondered what efforts are made to inhibit development in the exurbs. Apparently there’s something called the Metropolitan Agricultural Preserves Program which has protected 210,000 acres from development in the last couple of years. Not bad! But Dakota County’s conservation guy says “the ...

Yep. According to this story "a strategy of fringe parking to capture employees on the outskirts of the downtown core" was apparently the policy from 1970 until 2003.

http://tcbmag.com/Industries/Real-Estat ... -De?page=2

I saw on Twitter yesterday that the Vikings are going to get half the revenue from advertising ON the LRT platform, projected to be up to $200,000 per year. Anyone know more details about that? Giving away $200,000 a year in existing advertising revenue to the Vikings? The Vikings will get an estim...

we don't put power plants in the heart of an urban area

http://www.districtenergy.com

Apparently they've had 11,000 tours with no incidents. So cars have actually done a good job of accomodating pedal pubs.

http://www.startribune.com/police-drive ... 309823911/

How do I convince my friends that they are ALL absolutely crazy and doomed with the next downturn?

But isn’t your degree of exposure related moreso to your mortgage size vs. your home equity? How is a townhome in Chaska (which is booming) more dangerous than “over-investing” in Como Park?

Over six years starting in 2006, Twin Cities home values dropped by 35%. That’s something like $200 billion in household wealth wiped out - the equivalent of a million median-priced homes. Yet we’ve recovered reasonably well, no? Is the suburban economy as fragile as some on this forum think?

So the fact that he had to work all the way up to CEO before that happened means nothing?

So we should ignore his crimes because he climbed the corporate ladder before committing them?

Look, I’m not anti-billionaire. It’s just that McGuire doesn't seem particularly trustworthy.