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- May 29th, 2020, 3:07 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: George Floyd murder and aftermath
- Replies: 175
- Views: 83273
Re: Twin Cities' National and Global Image
Walz seemed today like he was fed up with both City Hall and the MPD for they both handled (or didn't handle) things.
- May 19th, 2020, 9:19 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Retail News
- Replies: 1432
- Views: 504315
Re: Downtown Minneapolis Retail News
Putting this here so it doesn’t get lost in the busy general thread. Great read overall, lots of choice quotes from developers and politicians. The Downtown Minneapolis vibrancy conundrum: http://tcbmag.com/news/articles/2020/may/the-downtown-minneapolis-vibrancy-conundrum Interesting read; thanks ...
- May 19th, 2020, 8:40 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Retail News
- Replies: 1432
- Views: 504315
Re: Downtown Minneapolis Retail News
I find it interesting the asseveration that Chicago's vibrancy comes from in part traffic congestion being so horrific that office workers are stuck after work buying overpriced food an beverages rather than being able to get home to their family in the suburbs. I wonder if he was referring more to...
- May 1st, 2020, 10:13 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Restaurant News
- Replies: 1261
- Views: 558847
Re: Downtown Minneapolis Restaurant News
Bachelor Farmer must have been going under before all this. Their family is worth almost $2B. They could have saved it if they wanted to. Still a shame. Their family might be worth that much, but they personally certainly aren't. Maybe things were tight already, but it also didn't seem like a place...
- April 21st, 2020, 10:51 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Roseville / Rosedale - General Topics
- Replies: 166
- Views: 90061
Re: Roseville / Rosedale - General Topics
At least in my neighborhood, the 55+ buildings are the ones that generate most of the police calls too, due to medical issues.
- March 30th, 2020, 8:23 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Theater Garage Marquee Apartments - (Franklin & Lyndale)
- Replies: 550
- Views: 89933
Re: Theater Garage Marquee Apartments - (Franklin & Lyndale)
"Probably built like crap, has amenities you'll only use once or twice, and the cheapest granite counters and stainless steel veneer appliances we could get at a bulk rate, but hey, you can stumble home from the bars."
- March 27th, 2020, 8:03 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Restaurant News
- Replies: 1261
- Views: 558847
Re: Downtown Minneapolis Restaurant News
Many restaurants struggle in the best of times. It might be different if they knew this was only going to be for a certain amount of time. But with the shutdowns being open-ended, they probably saw the writing on the wall and decided to call it quits now.
- March 23rd, 2020, 2:47 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Work from home and road congestion
- Replies: 28
- Views: 8607
Re: Work from home and road congestion
I'm in an apartment, but on the ground floor, so I only use the elevator if I am bringing up a lot of stuff from my car in the garage. Management is doing extra cleaning and have closed off the amenities. That said, we have a secured package room that everyone uses, so that's probably the weakest li...
- March 20th, 2020, 7:26 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Downtown Minneapolis Restaurant News
- Replies: 1261
- Views: 558847
Re: Downtown Minneapolis Restaurant News
More, maybe. But not much more. People are only going to put up with it for so long; there is already pushback against it. The current restrictions are probably necessary to buy time, but they are not sustainable over the long term.It will last much more than a month.
- March 19th, 2020, 7:18 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
- Topic: MPS Comprehensive District Design
- Replies: 39
- Views: 46924
Re: MPS Comprehensive District Design
I'm assuming they've considered this (at least a little) but the wealthy kids in kenwood that they think will save north won't save north....because they wont go to north. They will move or go to private school. Or go to a charter school, or open enroll in another district -- Minnesota is one of th...
- March 18th, 2020, 2:22 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Cambria / Fairfield Hotels - 41 10th Street N (former Ramada block)
- Replies: 65
- Views: 26342
Re: Cambria / Fairfield Hotels - 41 10th Street N (former Ramada block)
I think most projects that are underway will continue. If there's a construction slowdown, it will likely happen down the road.
- March 15th, 2020, 2:22 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Work from home and road congestion
- Replies: 28
- Views: 8607
Re: Work from home and road congestion
It's a mixed bag for me. I like having the flexibility to do it when necessary, but it's not optimal for my current situation. I'd feel different if I had a better physical space for it where I could have something closer to what I have in my cube (more monitors, larger desk, etc). The social part i...
- March 10th, 2020, 3:38 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
- Topic: MPS Comprehensive District Design
- Replies: 39
- Views: 46924
Re: MPS Comprehensive District Design
Oh yeah, those aren't apples to apples comparisons though. That is 2019-20 current numbers, and 2022-23 projections under the new alignment. So we can't really say the alignment itself is the cause of the increase. I'm sure part of it would be just increased population as more students reach high s...
- March 10th, 2020, 3:05 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
- Topic: MPS Comprehensive District Design
- Replies: 39
- Views: 46924
Re: MPS Comprehensive District Design
Second link fehler posted, if you scroll down through the article.Where are those numbers? In the map posted above, the boundaries for Washburn are getting smaller (losing area to the South and East, and not gaining any extra area anywhere), so how would the population increase?
- March 10th, 2020, 2:58 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
- Topic: MPS Comprehensive District Design
- Replies: 39
- Views: 46924
Re: MPS Comprehensive District Design
I also find the idea that they would deliberately make Washburn more overcrowded than it already is to be bizarre, but according to the numbers they provided, that's what they're going to do. It doesn't make any sense if they're already changing all of the high school boundaries anyway.
- March 10th, 2020, 8:44 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: St. Louis Park - General Topics
- Replies: 557
- Views: 240680
Re: St. Louis Park - General Topics
Micro Center could relocate to just about anywhere and be fine. They're a destination retailer and customers will go to wherever they are (within reason).
- March 6th, 2020, 3:13 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - General Topics and Citywide Issues
- Topic: MPS Comprehensive District Design
- Replies: 39
- Views: 46924
Re: MPS Comprehensive District Design
At least at the high school level, it seems like a lot of disruption for not all that much gain, and counterproductive in several cases (making some schools more segregated after the changes, making Washburn even more overcrowded, etc). The only part of the plan that I think could work is centralizi...
- February 28th, 2020, 9:21 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Shakopee - Savage - Prior Lake - Scott County
- Replies: 47
- Views: 46218
Re: Shakopee
Not surprising. These days it's hard for companies that need significant warehouse/manufacturing space (which it looks like they have, based on Google Maps) to expand without moving to the fringes of the metro.
- February 25th, 2020, 8:21 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Uptown - LynLake - The Wedge - News & General
- Replies: 1498
- Views: 604633
Re: Daymark Uptown (Sons of Norway site) - 3014 Holmes Ave S
Like a Lunds, Cub, CVS and mini Target? Just looking at Google Maps the immediate area also has a large gym, library, liquor store, dry cleaners, car repair and FedEx store, plus multiple banks and medical clinics, including a vet. This is in addition to secondary service places like several hair s...
- February 24th, 2020, 11:34 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Uptown - LynLake - The Wedge - News & General
- Replies: 1498
- Views: 604633
Re: Daymark Uptown (Sons of Norway site) - 3014 Holmes Ave S
They will if they are the right kinds of shops, sure. But they're not exactly going to buy a new Arc'teryx jacket each month, either.Um. What? Surely a person paying "overpriced" rents spends more in the neighborhood shops than if they lived elsewhere.