urbanMSP

True. That area brought outrage when the Weston was proposed over Galleria.

However, one of my customers lives in Grandview Square, she was positively excited about the possibility of the towers here, and the possibility of the lid.

The intersections at 100/55 and 100/7 have each been formerly four leaf cloverleaf intersections and are now filled with stop lights. Now much harder for cars to move through. The Eden-50th intersections are designed as they are now because of a past usage pattern that no longer exists, when Vernon ...

Well, well, well. The city economic development manager is seeking council resolution to seek Hennepin county grant money to match for initial engineering cost for recovery of 8-acres of TH 100 ROW with reconfiguring the 50th-Eden Ave intersections and capping TH 100 with a express bus parking garag...

Park Board says they are heading into budget short falls that threaten upkeep and repair or the parks and facilities. http://www.startribune.com/politics/statelocal/275024231.html To that I say, get more residents (who then pay taxes). Anytime a neighborhood bitches about some proposal being too big...

StarTribune article noting people in suburbs liking the benefits of living in walking distance to nearly everything ... even if it means views of parking lots.

http://www.startribune.com/local/west/274953191.html

Navigation app are changing the way we experience urban environment for better and worse. http://www.citylab.com/tech/2014/09/smartphones-and-the-uncertain-future-of-spatial-thinking/379796/ Interesting thought that navigation apps affect "spatial literacy" like having access to the intern...

Attitudes in Edina and Bloomington might have changed enough to get the dumb law removed but some of the physical context around this line that caused the law in the first place hasn't. It mostly goes through residential neighborhoods and very close to homes on both sides on a single track. It's dum...

The light rail on the Dan Patch will have to be in the realm of fantasy because the State legislature had forbid any plans or analysis of passenger rail on this line.

Legislators from Bloomington and Edina were behind that.

Some suburbs are finding challenges with saving historic structures. http://www.startribune.com/local/south/274979881.html

Eden Prairie, Savage, and Hopkins are compared.

So there is even a thing called Park(ing) Day. A day once every year to take the space of on street metered parking and make it a parklet http://parkingday.org/

Hopkins is going to install one for a few days for Park(ing) Day.
http://www.thinkhopkins.com/hopkins-parklet.html

I think a good designer could make it simple enough to fit a tall narrow sticker right on the post.

Some excerpts from the minutes of the city council work session where the options the committee formed to look at this were presented by the consultants. [From pages 10–12 of the next council packets. Link to .pdf http://www.hopkinsmn.com/council/meetings/pdf/agenda-packet.pdf] " Mr. Heppelmann...

Bloomington backs off zoning changes requiring future redevelopment here be multi-use after car dealers and Southtown owners object.

http://finance-commerce.com/2014/09/blo ... um=twitter

If it is that much above goals it might accelerate one appearing in North Loop, Uptown, or Loring Park and expanding to other cities.

This area is East Lake Street's version of West Lake Street's K-Mart.

With the anonymous, distant, detached, unreachable, uncaring (except for reliable income) landowners, maybe a worse mess in some ways. :/

Brazilian city residents create their own bus stop signs.

http://popupcity.net/community-bus-stop ... rm-brazil/

I just said adorned.

Achievement unlocked!

The Met Council, at one of the meetings held for SWLRT at the SLP council chambers presented a GIS data took they developed to present those pedestrian walksheds. There was a lot of excitement that this walkshed tool be used for other purposes.

I mentioned at the open house that they might be able to reduce Blake-Aquila cross traffic (and the congestion backed up at Blake) if the you in some underpass linking either Hiawatha or Van Buren to the Target driveway under TH7. I pointed out there were many people living in the dense cluster of a...

The Grandview redevelopment got four proposals.

http://m.bizjournals.com/twincities/blo ... -site.html