urbanMSP

This was one of my favorite infill projects -- what a shame. What about the other contenders....is it too late to offer them the project?

And this is why the city should consider purchasing the poorest uses of land downtown and running the bid process themselves. It's expensive upfront, but the potentially lost property tax from a junk building (and lost potential residents/income tax/sales tax etc) adds up over thirty years. They ca...

On one hand, this building meets the definition of looming. Oh, I'm not complaining about the density at all. I'd welcome more. It's the way the building wraps around that small corner structure, like Sauron watching over the land...If the exterior is meant to visually break up the massing that sho...

Yikes....kinda takes over the surrounding built environment! I feel bad for the current residents but otherwise it's a neat adaptive reuse of the existing built environment (as opposed to an adaptive reuse of an existing building).

To be fair, the Thrivent tower's east face is *mostly a blank wall* because it was *designed for a tower to snug up against it.* https://goo.gl/maps/urLM2krPBG42

It was supposed to be a twin of the existing building, and mimic praying hands, IIRC....

Oooo, can't wait to see the n'hood response!

Yet, isn't that one of the key arguments FOR the corridor (I mean, from the business side of things....selling the project)?

Re: the opposition....isn't there a neighborhood plan that outlines what level of development is acceptable, and in which areas? This argument gets tiresome with every new project. Indeed. This site is located in one of the few Activity Centers in Northeast, which guide for high to very high densit...

Re: the opposition....isn't there a neighborhood plan that outlines what level of development is acceptable, and in which areas? This argument gets tiresome with every new project.

Yeah, put it on my tab.

Why would traffic levels drop?

I'm not worried (yet). Minneapolis is apparently one of the (few) remaining markets in the US where apartment demand has not yet been satiated. Perhaps it's the lag in the Midwest behind the coasts, or perhaps it's something else. Either way the city continues to build out at a steady, modest clip a...

I didn't think our airport/runways/jetways could handle the 777? Or is that old news?

I've got a slogan for them: "Ain't that right, Boo? Tru!"

Is whatever they're pulling out of those giant pits near Arbor Lakes more valuable than the land?

Puppies, so yes.

Some people need new hobbies. I'm all for historic preservation and protecting your neighborhood, but this seems a little zany. I feel like there's more going on behind the scenes or something.

By my calculations, St. Louis Park will crack 50,000 by October. I'm excited to see SLP continue to add people, especially now being a resident. Our family moved there last May/June so you can safely add 4 people to that figure! There's quite a bit in the pipeline that's approved, under constructio...

Cool. Nice to see the urban core continue to blossom. Mpls, StP, Edina, SLP, Hopkins, Bloomington and even S St. Paul all had fairly robust growth for cities with no green fields whatsoever. I was slightly surprised to see only fairly modest growth in some of the more "popular" suburbs, li...

Nobody has much of anything going NE, which seems like a miss, IMO. NE Mpls is an up and coming submarket and it's fairly densely populated. I understand though that there's not a great/obvious terminus, unless we think Rosedale or maybe Medtronic makes a good one. If we're truly fantasizing, I'd ha...

Interesting....thanks again for the updates! It's nice to see SLP and Hopkins continue to evolve and adapt/progress (esp. now that we live in SLP)! I'll have to take my girls to that park -- it looks like they'd love it, and it's really close for us.