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by mattaudio
November 1st, 2023, 8:50 am
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
Replies: 1291
Views: 813889

Re: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market

This Wall Street Journal article features Downtown Minneapolis and highlights the high office vacancy rate and conversion of some buildings to housing: https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/commercial/wrecking-ball-targets-empty-downtown-offices-d0e3391 archive without paywall https://archive.ph/bTdX0#se...
by mattaudio
November 1st, 2023, 8:40 am
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics
Replies: 2027
Views: 783699

Re: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics

They better keep the plan to have a gondola cross the river and enter the west side of the post office for its downtown terminus.
by mattaudio
October 18th, 2023, 11:17 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Dan Patch Intercity Regional Passenger Rail
Replies: 180
Views: 158698

Re: Dan Patch Intercity Regional Passenger Rail

A little history lesson on the Dan Patch Line: With a north-south route that has/had several connections to east-west railroads and avoiding the busy rail yards in Minneapolis and St. Paul, the Dan Patch Line was quite successful with interchange traffic going from one major railroad to another maj...
by mattaudio
October 2nd, 2023, 6:01 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Freight Rail News and Happenings
Replies: 247
Views: 121408

Re: Freight Rail News and Happenings

I expect TC&W to request funding to repair some track in Savage so then maybe they'll finally start running grain trains on the Dan Patch Line again. But then again I've heard rumors CPKC isn't very supportive of that initiative, even though TC&W has trackage rights on the Dan Patch Line. N...
by mattaudio
September 13th, 2023, 2:37 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: MSP Airport / Metropolitan Airports Commission
Replies: 1359
Views: 346583

Re: MSP Airport / Metropolitan Airports Commission

Has anyone seen which terminal LH will use? Aer Lingus was in T1 along with the other oneworld airlines American and Alaska (though Alaska is new to oneworld since Aer Lingus' previous suspension). Lufthansa's Star Alliance friends United and Air Canada are in T1 as well. But T1's international arri...
by mattaudio
September 12th, 2023, 4:29 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Thrivent HQ & Moment apartments - 500 7th St & 650 Portland Ave
Replies: 225
Views: 390503

Re: Thrivent HQ & Moment apartments - 500 7th St & 650 Portland Ave

I wonder why Starbucks would close the store on the Commons and reopen over here so quickly?
Does this have an interior skyway connection even if on the main floor?
by mattaudio
September 12th, 2023, 4:28 pm
Forum: Suburbs
Topic: Eagan, Apple Valley, Burnsville - General Topics
Replies: 130
Views: 159867

Re: Eagan, Apple Valley, Burnsville - General Topics

Too bad, because some combination of the following would be great: - Realign Fort Road Bridge to connect with Shepard instead of W 7th. W 7th could end at Davern for connection to Shepard/Hwy 5, and the existing W. 7th corridor cutting through the grid could stay for streetcar/LRT from the bridge to...
by mattaudio
September 11th, 2023, 12:38 pm
Forum: Suburbs
Topic: Eagan, Apple Valley, Burnsville - General Topics
Replies: 130
Views: 159867

Re: Eagan, Apple Valley, Burnsville - General Topics

I wonder why the skyway wasn't connected to the west side of the freeway... that could have provided some TOD as well.
by mattaudio
September 6th, 2023, 7:28 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Better Bus Routes - Metro Transit
Replies: 34
Views: 64935

Re: Better Bus Routes - Metro Transit

Are there enough N-S crosstown trips to justify not going through downtown and depriving many other riders of the trips and transfers available downtown? While E-W crosstown routes are different, seems like Minneapolis' grid (downtown askew) and geography (Bassett Creek, river corridor, etc) are fav...
by mattaudio
August 22nd, 2023, 8:40 am
Forum: Updates - Announcements - Problems - Suggestions
Topic: Forum Maintenance & Technical Issues
Replies: 385
Views: 124207

Re: Forum Maintenance & Technical Issues

Which reminds me: someone should take over the forum! Who wants it? Let Sean know!
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by mattaudio
August 21st, 2023, 8:20 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
Replies: 1749
Views: 976450

Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT

Imagine a history where instead of assuming railroads would play nice in swampy low-intensity corridors, we had done elevated driverless automated light metros from the start with 3-4 minute headways regardless of driver shortages.
by mattaudio
August 21st, 2023, 8:17 am
Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
Topic: Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis - General Topics
Replies: 964
Views: 340168

Re: Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis - General Topics

The history of hotels outside the CBD is fascinating. Back when I worked at WFHM, some of our consultants who'd fly in to work with us would stay at the Midtown Sheraton because it was close enough to walk, but others would stay downtown or in the burbs. Anyone know the disposition of the old Midtow...
by mattaudio
August 21st, 2023, 8:07 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
Replies: 5265
Views: 1247508

Re: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT

The core work for the flying junction was done when Hennepin County built the *second* Target Field Station was built, a few years after the first TFS was built as part of Northstar contruction. There were great diagrams showing how the junction and tail track would come together which appear to hav...
by mattaudio
August 15th, 2023, 3:19 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Dan Patch Intercity Regional Passenger Rail
Replies: 180
Views: 158698

Re: Dan Patch Intercity Regional Passenger Rail

The point is there's nothing between Northfield and Minneapolis/St. Paul that merits regional rail service. A suburban park and ride station, if necessary, could go somewhere on either route and serve SOTR just fine. Track between those two destinations is a means to an end to get from one place to ...
by mattaudio
August 15th, 2023, 3:03 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Fantasy maps
Replies: 297
Views: 140511

Re: Fantasy maps

IMO go for the Yahara Station idea in Madison and upgrade transit on the ithsmus.
by mattaudio
August 9th, 2023, 11:01 am
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: Housing Market/Economics - General Topics
Replies: 255
Views: 114271

Re: Housing Market/Economics - General Topics

Taking demographics out of it, why would a seller want to sell to someone with more complicated financing and a more difficult path to closing versus easier financing? Same reason why cash is king over financing - less risk to close.
by mattaudio
August 8th, 2023, 9:41 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Dan Patch Intercity Regional Passenger Rail
Replies: 180
Views: 158698

Re: Dan Patch Intercity Regional Passenger Rail

the Dan Patch Line seems like another Northstar Commuter Line Agreed. The lesson from Northstar is that peak-oriented commuter trains don't have much benefit. Less now than before COVID sent many office workers home for good, and it was even a struggletrain in the before times. Pivot towards a regi...
by mattaudio
August 8th, 2023, 9:36 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Amtrak: Empire Builder and Borealis (TCMC)
Replies: 625
Views: 391452

Re: Amtrak: Empire Builder and Great River (TCMC)

https://www.wuwm.com/2023-07-14/why-yes ... a-lot-more
Yet another recent article expecting to start before EOY, though timetables are still TBD.
by mattaudio
July 18th, 2023, 2:07 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Green Line LRT
Replies: 1294
Views: 88039

Re: Green Line LRT

You called me out, and you are correct. It was a quick comparison not fully thought out, more of a derision on the Mpls examples than the Lowertown example.
by mattaudio
July 17th, 2023, 9:46 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Green Line LRT
Replies: 1294
Views: 88039

Re: Green Line LRT

OMF + CHS Field is to Lowertown what the 4th Ave Parking Ramp Wall is to Downtown East or ABC ramp wall is to the Royalston area.