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The only event she wants at the mall is the media party (whatever that is). Sounds like she's moving media day with the players from St. Paul back to Minneapolis though.

Those will be popular. Just a short walk to Target campus, the LRT, a grocery, a gym, coffee shops, restaurants, daycare etc.

He gives much of the credit for our success to our fiscal disparities law, and to a lesser degree, our approach to affordable housing. Maybe we've been taking those efforts for granted around here. Other places don't do that sort of thing as well.

Thanks for that. One thing I’d note though. It says that the FHA was largely run by representatives of real estate and banking - who protected the interests of developers. It also says that FHA standards were written to support what established builders already wanted. So were developers manipulatin...

This article explains some of the regulations Does it? The article hints at the existence of regulations, but I don’t see where an actual regulation is identified or defined. The FHA made pamphlets that noted preferences, but it doesn’t necessarily follow that developers who didn’t take FHA suggest...

Generally there’s a lot less car traffic in curvy subdivisions and cul de sacs, right? Didn’t developers intentionally make those areas a pain to navigate, so that through traffic would go elsewhere? The resulting quieter streets could then be sold to young families at higher prices.

the availability of FHA financing for homes in new developments was made contingent upon those developments' having a "curvilinear" street layout

You're seriously telling us that the FHA denied assistance to qualified folks solely because the street wasn't curvy?

The entire River First project... 11 miles of riverfront park... was estimated at about $275m so A LOT. Also, the price tag for "The Commons" has been put at $20 million, and the park board has said it'd cost $2 million a year to operate. So for $125m we could build The Commons and run it...

I think the MSFA would own it. Therefore it'd still be public property, no?

They’re making the area around the stadium more bike-friendly:

http://finance-commerce.com/2015/01/new ... s-stadium/

I think there are three more pieces of the spine to install. Looks like the last one goes in around June.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_XrSNAjkQA

I highly suspect it's going to feel cold and sterile I dunno. Judging by the dimensions of it, that ETFE roof will let in 33% more light than Lucas Oil Stadium gets (when it’s roof is open), and almost as much light as open-air CenturyLink Field. It should easily be the brightest, airiest indoor st...

Among the MSFA docs it says they want the "sail" of the plaza viking ship to be a 50 ft x 40 ft video screen. I also found this image:

mini viking ship

Is the ship actually full-sized? Maybe it seems smaller than it is due to the huge building behind it.

any viable strategy if this gets worse needs to be denial of any new funding

Deny funding to whom?

Democratic power - and therefore transit advocacy - is shrinking at the federal level as well. How likely are we in the future to gain access to increasingly scarce federal funds after we’ve set a precedent of dithering about how to spend it?

As rail advocates quibbled over whether to take the bird in the hand or the two in the bush, rail opponents assumed power and announced the killing of all birds. There’s a moral in there somewhere.

From the article in which the changes in Ryan’s proposal were first revealed, it says Ryan will pay $1.6 million for the design and construction of the parking ramp so it could “optimize future development possibilities for the site.” This has always been their intention. I think there’s a good chan...

government does the heavy lifting.

Government also does the lifting more efficiently. Aren’t Social Security administrative costs less than 1% of expenditures? Churches can’t come close to that.

Why then did the MLS locate the most recent franchise in Atlanta's NFL stadium?