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Really excellent if this is truly going to be some much-needed affordable units on the North Loop.

What a grim looking worksite. The white building wrap has been flapping in the wind since they erected the pre-fab walls which had the stuff already stapled onto it. In some parts they have tried to tack it down, other parts it is frayed like Tibetan prayer flags. It seems like this project is goin...

The only curveball is the competing theory that the fire was a targeted attack on Neighborhoods Organizing for Change's space, given that the fire happened the same day as a major protest NOC planned as well as the same week it was revealed that Mall of America was no longer seeking to pursue financ...

I'll concede the point on pools but I think Stevens Square shows exactly what I'm talking about. Those are smaller-scale buildings whose original high-end status derived from how ornate and precise the construction was, not how many amenities were crammed into them or how tackily they evoked a row o...

I dunno, I thought beige_box's last post on the previous page was beautifully snarkified. I certainly read it as thick sarcasm far more than insult. Me too. Sarcastic? Ehh... I mean, in our era of post-irony, it can be hard even for me to tell. I was trying to use some humor, for sure, but I also v...

Guess I touched a nerve. Kind of surprised to get pushback from Nick, because I was sort of going off of his article (https://streets.mn/2015/06/11/minneapolis-proposes-to-eliminate-minimum-parking-requirements-near-transit/) about the "real and tangible step[s] we could take to improve the aff...

so snarky n' flippant

In any case, better to build with the flexibility of retail to come later and use the space for something in the interim. As long as we're being patient, why not just reject this building entirely and wait for the various legalistic barriers against better development (smaller-scale, less geared to...

This is a test of faith, my friend. Will you, as the seasons go by, find the hidden, deeper beauty of the parking garage entrance? Or will you cower away from the world's challenge and slink off to some superficially bucolic street -- all while the plans for the dreary parking garage in your soul ar...

The city doesn't have to be consciously telling itself "screw Phillips!" to end up systemically screwing it anyway. In this case, the city has chosen this site because it's convenient. Why is it convenient? Because Phillips was screwed in the past, and the neighborhood organizations and in...

Neighborhood groups are calling the city's plan environmental racism, a.k.a. "racial discrimination in environmental policy making" that "involves the deliberate targeting of communities of color for toxic waste disposal and the siting of polluting industries". They have a differ...

Ok, I'm probably one of the first people on here to shout, "racism," but you're over the top, beige_box. I think kyl probably reflects what a lot of people think, particularly those in the suburbs. So let's unpack that. White people aren't comfortable around people of color. Why is that? ...

There is an epidemic of architectural drawings that show what is hoped to become rather than what it was from before. Call the news! ;) Prominent streets.mn forums commenter attempts to laugh away and normalize the idea of getting black people out of downtown as the goal of Nicollet mall redesign? ...

I honestly think this project will be a waste of my tax money. The demographics in the renditions do not represent reality. I can't imagine a white woman working on her laptop after dark outside of the Gap store. Nicollet Mall is a bus lane and it will remain so after millions is spent. The growth ...

OK so why isn't the city spending $50 million to "update" West Broadway?

First post from a longtime lurker. Can someone please explain what this thing is w/ the stairs