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- August 23rd, 2012, 6:25 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Apartments vs. Condos | Renting vs. Owning
- Replies: 174
- Views: 38688
Re: Nicollet Residences - (455 Nicollet Mall)
K, great news, but this does make me more nervous about 1368 LaSalle.....I want that one more than any other project right now! Magellan is a powerhouse developer, and I will be very surprised if they don't get financing for their project. I also think 1368 Lasalle could very easily be a future con...
- August 21st, 2012, 7:44 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics
- Replies: 2031
- Views: 795406
Re: Current & Proposed Downtown Minneapolis Projects
Log in to your Google account, if you do not have its easy to create one. The very top of the page will have a "Documents" link, click on that. On the left hand of the documents page there will be a create button, then a menu, select spreadsheet. An Excel like field will show up. Copy and ...
- August 21st, 2012, 6:44 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics
- Replies: 2031
- Views: 795406
Re: Current & Proposed Downtown Minneapolis Projects
Use Google Docs.
It's almost completely up-to-date but not very pretty. I can provide the spreadsheet and make it public or just provide frequent (monthly?) updates. I'm unaware of how to post a spreadsheet though...
- August 20th, 2012, 10:32 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: 222 & Whole Foods - (222 Hennepin Avenue)
- Replies: 577
- Views: 106859
Re: 222 & Whole Foods - (222 Hennepin Avenue)
This may not be the best looking project, but PTL that we're not in Indy. This is in their downtown.
Horrifying
Horrifying
- August 18th, 2012, 9:41 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Riverside Plaza
- Replies: 28
- Views: 7416
Riverside Plaza
Mod note: The beginning of this conversation was clipped, so forgive the somewhat abrupt beginning. Crime has fallen off since the 1990s. It provides a good place for immigrants to get on their feet. It is actually one of the only successful high rise housing projects in the country. We just happen ...
- August 17th, 2012, 11:02 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Trader Joes (Lyndale and 27th)
- Replies: 132
- Views: 21088
Re: Trader Joes (Lyndale and 27th)
Isn't part of Uptown's cachet that it's close to so many businesses? Is Meg concerned more with a Trader Joe's than with the national chain bro bars coming in? Can you be more specific about "bro bars"? Some bros drink MGD and workout, some bros smoke weed and play Madden. Tons of diversi...
- August 16th, 2012, 10:59 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Trader Joes (Lyndale and 27th)
- Replies: 132
- Views: 21088
Re: Trader Joes (Lyndale and 27th)
I wish Meg would stop saying she is a small business owner, her balloon shop shop closed ages ago. She is just the worst in my opinion. She is too in favor of the incumbents and status quo. I can get that you do not want 20 story towers in Uptwon. Trying to shut down patios, taking pride in the fact...
- August 15th, 2012, 3:03 pm
- Forum: Photography
- Topic: Random Europe
- Replies: 6
- Views: 12216
Random Europe
I'll be the first to add something, below are shots from Europe summer 2010 http://i.imgur.com/exRfD.jpg A serious rail bridge in Germany http://i.imgur.com/ExEoJ.jpg A fancy convention center http://i.imgur.com/sz6vv.jpg Watching soccer in front an iron sculpture http://i.imgur.com/RDEQx.jpg A rail...
- August 14th, 2012, 1:22 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Smaller Scale Infill Development
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6891
Re: Smaller Scale High Density Housing.
ha, great you linked to same ones I was thinking about.
- August 14th, 2012, 1:21 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Smaller Scale Infill Development
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6891
Re: Smaller Scale High Density Housing.
Not so much the design, but the fact that the set back is irregular. Unless it sits on an odd parcel it is likely a poor use of land as well. Referring to the first photo. I think the Le Corbusier style tower in the park and blank wall urbanism is what really sucked about the 70s. But you see lots o...
- August 14th, 2012, 12:43 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Smaller Scale Infill Development
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6891
Re: Smaller Scale High Density Housing.
I'm all for more density. As long as you do not have irregular facades like the dwellings above. Just make them normal and face the block. The 1970s were a bad time for new housing design, do not bring it back.
- August 7th, 2012, 3:23 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: MN Highway 100
- Replies: 98
- Views: 21008
Re: Hwy 100
Isn't this the section that Molneau implemented her "shoulder lanes" to increase capacity without putting real money into it? How has that held up, 10 years later? As someone who drives this stretch every day I think it's still a bit better than it was, but that can change on a day to day...
- August 1st, 2012, 1:41 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: What will it take to develop DTE?
- Replies: 132
- Views: 22609
Re: What will it take to develop DTE?
Eastside of Downtown.Why do you guys think there is some sort of pent up demand for more restaurants and bars downtown? You can't just create an entertainment district out of nothing.
- August 1st, 2012, 12:35 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: What will it take to develop DTE?
- Replies: 132
- Views: 22609
Re: What will it take to develop DTE?
This would be spendy, but why not a covered plaza/bar/nightclub block with gas heating and venting. This would piggy back the later part of the football season and make a super bowl bid probably an automatic yes. I like this idea. If done correctly meaning it could be scaleable, serving thousands d...
- July 26th, 2012, 11:45 am
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: Fiscal Disparities
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3768
Re: Fiscal Disparities
It's not fair to pigeon hole the entire north/northwest metro as frugal/cheap/drab. Anoka, for example, has 12+ million in city funded projects plus a few other private projects this year alone. $12 million in one year isn't too bad for a city of 17k sitting on a whopping seven square miles.. Anoka...
- July 25th, 2012, 7:17 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Minneapolis - St. Paul Business News
- Replies: 255
- Views: 29514
Re: Minneapolis - St. Paul Business News
Hasn't McGladrey always been headquartered in Chicago.
- July 25th, 2012, 7:12 am
- Forum: Local Politics and Governance
- Topic: Fiscal Disparities
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3768
Re: Fiscal Disparities
Suburbs ethos is exclusion. After reading Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States by Kenneth Jackson I have a profoundly different view of the suburbs that I once did. Although suburbs did exist before WWII, the main thrust came after and what it did to the nation's urban cores ...
- July 20th, 2012, 7:06 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Brunsfield Place - 915 Washington Avenue N
- Replies: 191
- Views: 43344
Re: Brunsfield Place Apartments
I hope they don't build something that puts up blank walls toward the street.
- July 19th, 2012, 8:03 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: District 600 - 600 5th Street North
- Replies: 220
- Views: 53755
Re: 600 5th Street North
But how is this a "bust"? Yeah, some projects might not get built. Rents might go down. You might get some condo conversions. Why is this such a looming problem? That's a good question. If too many buildings/units are built, then it'll simply cause vacancies to rise and rents to fall. Unl...
- July 16th, 2012, 1:22 pm
- Forum: Saint Paul
- Topic: CHS Field (St. Paul Saints Ballpark)
- Replies: 283
- Views: 78018
Re: Saints Lowertown Ballpark
From what I have heard is that the Twin Cities are too isolated for the Midwest League Western Division teams. Grand Chute is at about the same latitude but 250 miles east. Every other teams located south and east. I think the travel distances via bus are too much for A level ball. This project has ...