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Regarding the near proximity of TH100 to US169 to I-494 (from Eden Prairie to Maple Grove)… TH100 began life as the Belt Line, originally intended to be a ring highway around both downtowns, authorized in 1934. Eventually the New Deal funded a lot of the construction as a sort of destination parkway...

The Trilogy development at Blake and Excelsior is unsubsidized full market rate and has four ground floor retail spaces. Though in comparison, the 325 Blake is being subsidized for affordable housing and only one building (that has not been started) will have ground floor retail. The site has separa...

Stadium Village plans have a phase 1 partner.

https://finance-commerce.com/2024/03/mo ... ation-hub/

Have they finalized plans for the new bike trail/lane on 17th from excelsior to hw7? Won't be another 8th ave but assuming they didn't choose the painted lanes that might be ambitious. Still say Hopkins could use a better trail along excelsior blvd (yes I know we have the cedar lake but it's good t...

Does Hopkins have any plans to build more streets like the bikeway from Mainstreet to the LRT station? Not exactly that amazing. At the Blake Road station, there will be a street connector linking Pierce to Blake passing by the station. It is pretty car-focused. The Trilogy development at Blake/Exc...

A decade-delayed development for building 1,900 units along a transit line might finally be getting approval after court ruling. https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2024/03/27/city-planners-pivot-after-lengthy-embarrassment-recommend-massive-fort-garry-housing-project Nearly Bay Area leve...

A proposal to change building codes statewide to permit single exit stairwell buildings up to 75 feet. https://www.minnpost.com/cityscape/2024/03/the-minnesota-building-code-should-loosen-up-about-single-stair-buildings/ And the proposal: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF3351&v...

Don’t know when it was updated but Apple Maps updated the metro’s 3D map out as far as the western border of Hennepin and out to Victoria and Carver (the town) It used to be only as far west as, like, Methodist Hospital. Downtown Hopkins for instance shows the current state of the LRT station and th...

WSJ reports on Southdale’s $400M revamp bringing luxury national retailers. If you have Apple News https://apple.news/A4pI027lCRlWtv6X2ilTAtA Or web, https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2024/03/08/southdale-luxury-gucci-coach.html https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/commercial/mall-future-southd...

Chanhassen Cinema site proposal of over 300 units plus some retail up for review.

https://finance-commerce.com/2024/03/ch ... or-review/

Apartment builders swarming to the suburbs.

https://www.startribune.com/apartment-r ... 600347386/

Is that building within the coverage of the Harmon historic district that puts a limit on heights?

The list of positions to vote for was getting my temper going. Out in Hopkins here I was trying to think if there were much differences, we get to vote for the Three Rivers Park commissioner. We don’t get a vote for the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District or Nine Mile Creek which are appointed by the...

Nick, I found your Minnesota Reformer post very good. I was probably already agreeing with it so this might be my confirmation bias speaking. But good stuff.

https://minnesotareformer.com/2024/02/1 ... n-council/

I think for PR and public acceptance they should list the bridge cost separately. We’ve seen how much bridges and tunnels have the highest likelihood to explode coasts. Continuing of lumping the entire project in one lump sum is doing damage to public approval of expansion of mass transit. Similar t...

Hennepin is adding another round.

$100 M

https://www.startribune.com/hennepin-co ... 600337941/

Adam Platt writes in the Strib about the 2040 plan hinging on a transit system the city has zero control over. https://www.startribune.com/the-2040-equation-density-minus-transit-equals-failure/600337693/ 30-minute times come in for big criticism as affecting reduced transit use. Crappy transit will...

Why am I just now noticing how insanely shortsighted it is that this almost $3B project did not include a trail along the portion of the route stretching from Shady Oak Station to at least Golden Triangle Station, or even better to the end of the line. Among my many points of poor decisions, the el...

Minnetonka Blvd (France Ave to TH 100) reconstruction begins Spring 2024. Will take 2 years.

https://content.govdelivery.com/account ... ns/38583fd