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The U of M is requesting $100 million dollars in HEAPR (Higher Education Asset Preservation and Renovation) money in the upcoming bonding (Capital Investment) bill. Who knows what the final amount they get will be, however, one project on their HEAPR list is $10 million for a complete rehabilitation...

Is it just me or does this sound exactly like...a department store!lol

http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/m ... r-l-a.html

Mpls from Space:

https://twitter.com/astro_kjell/status/ ... wsrc%5Etfw

Wow. I agree. This looks great. Would really change this area for the better.

Really hope this all works out and turns out well.

Huge news for St. Paul though. Mayor Coleman must be relieved. Maybe now the city can focus on some other major projects more thoroughly. Jail/riverfront, Palace Theatre, etc.

This prob goes in Commons thread, but it is locked. Anywho:

http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/09/18 ... arking-lot

Deal reached with morgue. Opens park up.

MPR just reported that final beam raising was delayed due to lighting in the area posing a danger. May still go up later today.

Still begs the question--how can that be a "topping-out" ceremony with 3 more large steel beams to go up..but, whatever.lol

Sorry, not sure how the word "really" got in there, which made it sound way snarkier than it was meant to (which is to say it was not meant to be snarky). I'd only recently learned about the practice, so I thought I'd share for others that hadn't heard of it yet. :) No worries. And maybe ...

If you're really confused about why they're hoisting a tree to the top of the stadium, it's because it's a builders tradition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topping_out

Not confused about that. Confused about how many beams are left to put on the roof yet today..

Please let us know if it lives up to the hype.lol

Walgreens Opening Friday on Nicollet:

http://www.journalmpls.com/news-feed/wa ... ollet-mall

"City Pages is leaving about 10,000 square feet at the Designers Guild Building (401 N. Third St.) for about 11,000 square feet of empty office space at the Star Tribune's Heritage Center (800 First St N.), Star Tribune spokesman Steve Yaeger said." http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/bl...

Steel topping off event today.

I don't understand what this means.. Can someone explain? It looks to me like there is a lot of steel yet to go up on the south-side of the roof let alone the rest of it.

I have a friend that works at corporate Buffalo Wild Wings and he was saying they are really interested in opening up near U.S. Bank Stadium and the new Wells Fargo Buildings. Apparently they are really happy with the TCF location at the U and think it would be a good fit there too. All the events a...

Interesting piece in Minnpost:

http://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy ... ate-condos

Real Estate firm Engel and Volkers will open first Minneapolis (and midwest) location on Hennepin dt. http://www.journalmpls.com/news-feed/european-real-estate-firm-engel-v%C3%B6lkers-to-open-minneapolis-location Article doesn't say exactly where the location will be. Interesting that they chose Min...

This is very exciting! Cheapo down the street. I've heard the old Chicken Shack is getting a redo too. Can't remember where I saw that at the moment.

Signage going up on west Wells Fargo building...

http://www.vikings.com/stadium/new-stadium/webcam.html