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Who shot the warehouse district? http://tcbmag.com/news/articles/2018/march/who-shot-the-warehouse-district It is funny that they are trying to pass off the '80s as some sort of golden idyll for the Warehouse District. The stuff that used to happen on Hennepin Ave back then makes today's concerns l...

I think this would be a great place for a park or a plaza. It is in the middle of a prime commercial district and it is only a matter of time before it is surrounded by midrises on all sides. In Europe that would be a classic place to put a square or piazza. It would be a public space where people ...

I think this would be a great place for a park or a plaza. It is in the middle of a prime commercial district and it is only a matter of time before it is surrounded by midrises on all sides. In Europe that would be a classic place to put a square or piazza. It would be a public space where people w...

Apparently the only kind of regulation which currently applies to pile drivers is you have to hire a structural engineer to determine what level of vibration would cause damage to nearby structures and property and stay below that level. There is zero consideration of the impact on peoples lives. T...

No. I think if anything, having an existing concentration of retail talent would have worked in our favor, given that Amazon is willing and able to siphon talent. It may have worked in the other direction. Amazon is notorious in Seattle for being a high turnover employer that burns people out. Mayb...

This debate is tired. There are legitimate critiques of the project, and there are legitimate upsides as well. Whether or not they outweigh each other is beside the point. The point right now is that once we do collectively decide something like this is worthwhile--whether or not we get that decisi...

10 year lease term. Yikes. http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/300-S-2nd-St-Minneapolis-MN/5237025/ Most businesses would balk at anything less than 10 years. You don't want to go through the work and expense of opening a new business only to be out bid on your space a few years later. This is doubly tr...

One summer I lived next to a pipeline that was being constructed in St Paul (along a BNSF rail corridor). It took the entire summer for the pile driver to go from 50 feet on one side of our house to 50 feet on the other. From 7 in the morning to 8 at night every single day. I feel your pain. You don...

Aquaponics is something that is far more suited to low value rural land. It is essentially fish farming and then using the waste water for hydroponics.

Vegetarian food is significantly cheaper to make than meat based dishes. They should be able to run a much lower food cost than most other restaurants which means they have more money for the rent. This could work. Certainly true, but also true that they can't charge as much for these dishes. And l...

I posted this at SSC but I think it bears reposting here: I hesitate to post rumors here because of all that has transpired, but I heard an interesting piece of information today about Nye's through the restaurant industry grapevine from somebody who would know. Apparently Nye's is closing because ...

Vegetarian food is significantly cheaper to make than meat based dishes. They should be able to run a much lower food cost than most other restaurants which means they have more money for the rent. This could work.

I was just reading a Strib article from 2008. They were talking about this line being done by 2015.

Can we call this a fiasco yet?

The deeper problem is that no place wants wants to be the place where the homeless congregate, but they exist so where do they go? If they aren't going to be allowed to allowed under the bridge they will just be doing the same thing somewhere else. The cycle began with the demolition of the flophous...

No?

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Although I like Dehn an awful lot as a person, he's much too beholden to the Our Revolution peeps. NLP has not demonstrated any interest in actually governing. My issue with Dehn comes from his call to disarm the police. It is true that the Minneapolis police have a long history of being a bad depa...

People I know (and know to be honest) in the restaurant industry are saying things like this about Jacob Frey: One of my biggest regrets of the tip credit battle was failing to record a conversation with him and several industry professionals, in which he told us that he thinks an increase in minimu...

I'm going to vote 1. Hoch, 2. Hodges, nobody third. On a national level I would be considered on the left side of the Democratic party, but on the local level I think the Minneapolis DFL is going down the rabbit hole - obsession with identity politics, beholden to the activist fringe, more intereste...

I would really like to see something go into the SOHO Pizza lot.

You better not be talking about Soho Cafe. Their Greek Chicken Pita and Gyros are really good, and super cheap. Plus they are open late.

This is a challenging election for mayor for me because I don't really like any of the candidates. One of the things that seems to be going wrong in Minneapolis politics right now is that it is a city full of left wing voters who are frustrated by national politics and are pouring their frustrations...