urbanMSP

Remember that, even though it's not moving particularly quickly, the NLX project received a big chunk of state funding last year, and includes a Foley Blvd station. The Met Council isn't going to stand up a separate project to build that for MnDOT on their own.

The 1st Ave N bike lanes were parking protected for fiveish years (~2010-2015). It was an abject failure, there was pretty much always someone parked in them. I've always wondered if compliance would have been better in a part of the city where it was the same group of local residents and/or workers...

If we're building the new highway bridge from scratch with 21st St and ramp reconfigurations, etc, (which I'm still a little flabbergasted that we're apparently doing), I've gotta imagine it can include a station as well. Seems more expensive than the originally pitched idea of elevating the tracks ...

The office building proposal at the corner of Washington and Broadway that popped up back in 2022 has blossomed into a proposal to redevelop all four corners of the Broadway/2nd St N. intersection . According to this (locked) Finance & Commerce article, the ION Corp office/production facility is...

Target is planning to have the HQ workers come in for one week per quarter in 2024.

lol

Since everything (except the 11, I guess) would have to get back to Nicollet at the south end anyway, running down Hennepin would mean using 11th/12th to connect back to Nicollet, or just 12th if the Orange Line contraflow lane was extended to Hennepin (or all the way to Linden/394, if we're thinkin...

Hindsight is 20/20, but the Nicollet BRT stations on 7th and 8th really should have been between Nicollet and Marquette instead of between Nicollet and Hennepin.

Yeah. The social media obsession with a loon flag/seal doesn't seem all that different to me than the (thankfully briefer) obsession with the random dog picture.

On the other hand, if the seal isn't on the flag anymore, how often will I even see it? I just can't get too worked up about it.

I go back and forth on whether it would be preferable to shift the future BRT routes (10/18) to 3rd or to Hennepin. Hennepin would have the advantage of already having BRT stations and thus seamless connections to the E Line, as well as still being within a block of Nicollet so it's not too much of ...

There was a joint presentation from Public Works and Metro Transit to the Council today on the legislative directive to study removing buses from Nicollet Mall. ( Report version ). Notably, there's a (soft?) deadline in play - Metro Transit needs to inform the FTA by April if there's going to be a c...

For south Minneapolis, certainly.

The commission loves it though.

Looking at slide 28 of that presentation, the pink "Riverview Alignment" line continues past Union Depot station and off the edge of the map. I wonder if that's implying that the tracks would just continue down Kellogg and cut over on Lafayette to get into the newly expanded Lowertown OMF?...

Must just be that eastern building being demolished for now? Haven't been there for a while, but the BK, Caribou, and Kung Fu Tea are all still open according to their websites.

Guess they're prepping to get started on the East Gateway project. I had completely forgotten about it.

My concern with the loon design isn't so much the similarity to the state lottery logo (that's also a state agency, so whatever) but the similarity to the privately owned MNUFC logo.

Not effectively; the platform at TFS is only 400' long, the long-haul Amtrak trains need a 1200' platform to allow all the doors to open. They can get away with shorter platforms at less-used stations - if you go to Red Wing the conductors will make you sit in a specific coach because only a couple ...

I'm reasonably optimistic that Ramsey County will get their shit together if Amtrak is seriously threatening to leave, given how hard they've been trying to make people walk through SPUD whether it makes sense or not, like with the whole push to make the Gold Line end at the bus platforms there inst...

They have about 90 days to lease another 270,000 square feet to avoid foreclosure.

Good luck to them.

Looks like they got another 8,250 square feet leased. Missed it by that much.

1st and Hennepin, attached to the Post Office.