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- October 31st, 2022, 11:39 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) Clinic Expansion
- Replies: 124
- Views: 105547
Re: Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) Clinic Expansion
HCMC is proposing an expansion of the existing Purple Ramp to cover the other half of the site, creating a full-block parking structure bounded by 6th and 7th Streets and Park and Portland Avenues. The new ramp would add 1,053 parking spaces to the 1,331 already on the block. The new ramp would have...
- October 28th, 2022, 2:52 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
- Topic: Affordable Housing
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15242
Re: Affordable Housing
The upcoming November 1st City Planning Commission agenda contains two excellent projects from Hennepin County. Both are conversions of hotels into <30% AMI housing. The first project will convert 45 rooms of the former University Inn in Marcy Holmes and the second will convert 55 rooms of the forme...
- October 26th, 2022, 8:34 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Nicollet-Lake - greater Kmart area
- Replies: 486
- Views: 315681
Re: Nicollet-Lake - greater Kmart area
I attended the open house for the Kmart site last night. There was delicious food and it was well attended by a diverse audience. The City had lots of engagement activities, multiple stations asking various questions, and translators on hand. They got many details right, with the only exception that...
- October 26th, 2022, 8:17 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Retail News
- Replies: 1432
- Views: 497897
Re: Downtown Minneapolis Retail News
Homelessness is a separate issue from crime and it's extremely counter-productive to lump them together as a single item.
- October 25th, 2022, 4:34 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: F Line BRT (Central-University)
- Replies: 40
- Views: 7768
Re: F Line BRT (Central-University)
I don't expect this to get any traction, Metro Transit seems attached to the "crawling at 10mph even when it's not detoured for farmers markets and other events" Nicollet Transit Mall experience, but I left a comment requesting that they look at crossing downtown on Marq2, using the Orang...
- October 24th, 2022, 4:43 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: F Line BRT (Central-University)
- Replies: 40
- Views: 7768
Re: F Line BRT (Central-University)
The F Line planning process emerged into the open today. On the project website , you can now view the Draft Corridor Plan and comment . I posted the full comment on Twitter , but I still strongly believe (see previous posts in this thread for an extended argument) that this project would be strengt...
- October 21st, 2022, 8:24 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
- Replies: 1298
- Views: 835918
Re: Downtown Minneapolis Office Market
This looks pretty great, but I'm disappointed that the developers didn't consider that this site was high on my target list for a residential tower once I win the Powerball. Serious thought is that there are now very few full, 3/4, or even 1/2 block redevelopment sites remaining in downtown, but the...
- October 19th, 2022, 9:38 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1767
- Views: 997830
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
I also went to the Blue Line Extension public open house on Broadway. I learned a lot from the meeting. There were about twenty to thirty members of the public who attended, enough that there were productive conversations going on everywhere but not as much as you would hope given a project of this ...
- October 18th, 2022, 11:48 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Fantasy maps
- Replies: 308
- Views: 147666
Re: Fantasy maps
I'm extremely skeptical of loops as a transit route design. To my knowledge, I'm unaware of any really successful loop route that stood out on its own, except at resorts and airports where the rider base is captive and there are big benefits to the efficiency of having just one line. There are a num...
- October 13th, 2022, 12:53 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Southside - News & General Topics
- Replies: 1102
- Views: 407680
Re: Southside - News & General Topics
There is a community meeting planned for Saturday, October 22nd, to discuss the future design of George Floyd Square. It is not my place to decide, but I am very interested in what comes out of this process. Something that stirred my mind on this topic recently was a visit to Richmond, VA, where the...
- October 3rd, 2022, 2:23 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
- Topic: Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis - General Topics
- Replies: 964
- Views: 353229
Re: Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis - General Topics
Between this, the Youngblood project, the Northrup King Artist Housing, and the 1717 Central project, it's pretty clear that developers are building exactly 1:1 car parking to unit ratios in upper Northeast. All of these projects hit that mark, which gives Ward 1 the second highest car parking to un...
- September 26th, 2022, 8:57 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Finding/Exploring COW Packets
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5305
Re: Finding/Exploring COW Packets
Feel free to use my tracking spreadsheet to locate the meeting where past projects were discussed: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... ue&sd=true
- September 16th, 2022, 8:33 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Harmonia - 255 2nd Ave S - 25ish / 20ish / 10ish stories
- Replies: 31
- Views: 30818
Re: Harmonia - 255 2nd Ave S - 25ish / 20ish / 10ish stories
Lots to like. Bunch of thoughts on this one: First of all, I'm glad they are doing three buildings. While we're never going to go back to the days when a block like this would have a dozen or more separate buildings on it, it's nice to have at least some variety. I would've preferred four buildings,...
- September 7th, 2022, 2:12 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Harmonia - 255 2nd Ave S - 25ish / 20ish / 10ish stories
- Replies: 31
- Views: 30818
Re: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics
Wells Fargo has sold their downtown Operations Center at 3rd and Washington to Sherman, says this Bizjournals article . No comment from Sherman about what they're planning on doing with it. Potentially pretty exciting. I think this building is one of the worst in downtown Minneapolis. Combined with...
- August 19th, 2022, 8:45 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
- Topic: Minneapolis Population / Density - General Discussion
- Replies: 334
- Views: 173169
Re: Minneapolis Population / Density - General Discussion
FWIW, projects with a heavy subsidized affordable component operate with a bit of a different logic than market rate projects. So it could be the case that a developer has sworn off market rate projects in a city, but is still willing to entertain affordable projects. Not ideal, because every city n...
- August 16th, 2022, 2:11 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
- Topic: Minneapolis Population / Density - General Discussion
- Replies: 334
- Views: 173169
Re: Minneapolis Population / Density - General Discussion
Which, to be clear, has been an explicit public policy goal for the city.I'd argue the biggest issue in the Minneapolis market is oversupply...
Minneapolis rents have barely budged at a time when rents nationally are increasing astronomically, and it's not because of disinvestment or flight.
- August 15th, 2022, 1:55 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
- Topic: Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis - General Topics
- Replies: 964
- Views: 353229
Re: Northeast and Southeast Minneapolis - General Topics
New before the Planning Committee CoW this week is a proposal for a six story, 65 unit, 20 car parking space project at 613 Van Buren. Here's the packet . If that address rings a bell, it's because it's on the same street (and benefitting from the same strip of Corridor 6 built form guidance) as the...
- August 2nd, 2022, 11:38 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
- Topic: Minneapolis Population / Density - General Discussion
- Replies: 334
- Views: 173169
Re: Minneapolis Population / Density - General Discussion
Yesterday HUD updated their building permits survey (I've been calling these housing starts, which is basically what they are, but there is a difference and I should be more clear) through June, so we've got a half year of data now. Through the first half of 2022, there were permits for 2,317 homes ...
- July 12th, 2022, 9:43 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Minnetonka Area – General Topics
- Replies: 201
- Views: 102118
Re: Minnetonka Area – General Topics
What an awful headline. "... as [Minnetonka] reaches max capacity" Who wrote this, a farmer? I wouldn't have chosen that headline, but if you read the first three sentences, it's clear that what they mean is that Minnetonka has an extremely low vacancy rate and that more housing is needed.
- July 7th, 2022, 11:40 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
- Replies: 1767
- Views: 997830
Re: Blue Line Extension - Bottineau LRT
If I'm not mistaken, didn't the Governor (either Dayton or Walz, I can't remember) actually fly down to Fort Worth to negotiate with BNSF executives directly? This project was delayed for years while the state tried a lot of different avenues of leverage. I wholeheartedly support the new route throu...