urbanMSP

Dank.

Until Cub abandons their awful branding and 'warehouse' styling, there will be no such thing a an 'urban Cub Foods'.

You haven't even seen what they're going to do with this space so how can you make such a denigrating statement?

That is a really good project for Chanhassen. That area could really be a node for business and living with a handful more projects like this. Hopefully, the NIMBYs will just stay home.

Can someone provide justification to this idea of 1:1 parity between St. Paul and Minneapolis when it comes to transit projects? Minneapolis is a bigger city is it not?

Serious question, not loaded and no snark.

GOP control of the MN legislature. David Hann lost as well. O_o

One good thing to come from last night. Ilhan Omar is the first Somali-American ever to be elected to a state level legislature. I'm very proud of my district (to be fair a Somali-American would have won the district anyway, but yeah).

You can get to the LRT platform from the bikeable areas at T2. It's not perfect, but you can walk it or ride right up to the platform. There should really be an underground bike storage facility at T2 connected to the platform where the adjacent construction trailer park is. Considering that is plan...

The new lights on the four main corners are a nice new addition to the 100 Washington building. Looks like purple is the choice de jour.

Tower crane going up today.

There's appears to be a new Indian restaurant that popped up in the old Taste of Thailand space on 7th just east of Hennepin. It's been there for at least a month or so.

Do you know the name of this place?

Buildings are not art. I would *love* to see you try to define art in a way that could never include buildings. For the first time in my life I agree with EOst. Buildings are absolutely art. Many of them have art integrated into the building. I'm curious to hear your argument as to why/how building...

Also, the brickwork has been coming along nicely. It's hard to tell from a bad webcam pic, but the gray on the north wing looks nice

They are a purple-grey like color. I'll take a picture on the way home.

Millwright is "topping off" today. Saw the Christmas tree being lifted up this morning.

Evergreen/coniferous/pine/balsam/spruce. Anything but Christmas. A tree is not a Christmas tree outside of religious uses.

Is it at all possible that the state reimburses the three entities that committed more money at a later date? Say when/if the DFL take control of the legislature this November or is that not possible?

What? Seriously? The siding wasn't even done being put on.

Has anyone ridden down/up Third Avenue downtown now that the majority of the street has been repainted? Also, does anyone else really hate the way the bike lane on northbound Hennepin going across the bridge is almost perfectly bisected by the concrete joints? I feel like this might be dangerous as ...

Does anyone know if all the buses that moved off Third Avenue to Hennepin Avenue when they repainted Third will move back now that the project is done/near done or will MT just keep all those buses on Hennepin until Nicollete is open again?

I've heard this hotel could attract unprecedented interest from multiple internationally renowned nightclubs that don't yet have a presence in North America. In loving memory of Retired Banker. I heard this may even attract interest in a nonstop flight from either SCL (Santiago, Chile) or GRU (São ...

Yes, and jersey barriers up around the whole site...looks like it is underway. Thank goodness that one poster will not have to inform us that another month has gone by. What ever, it's not like you don't post ridiculous remarks. Thankfully you're never on the other forum anymore as no one liked you...

Nice pictures Aaron. I was walking by these yesterday. I think your first picture captures the essence of these buildings well. The siding on these buildings floors 2 and up is just terrible, but the brick work is really nice.

But Frey is working on changing the ordinance so that people can drink in the parks.

I've found if you're not being a clown no one really cares. But good news all the same.