"Open" should be open to people. Cars are not necessary or required."Open" means open to cars. Doesn't need to be a freeway, but there should be an allowance for autos, else why are we spending tax dollars on it.
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- March 6th, 2020, 1:52 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Nicollet-Lake - greater Kmart area
- Replies: 486
- Views: 315110
Re: Lake & Nicollet Redevelopment (Kmart site)
- March 6th, 2020, 10:26 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Nicollet-Central Streetcar
- Replies: 887
- Views: 139461
Re: Nicollet-Central Streetcar
If we do want to advocate, is there anyone aside from our city councilperson that we should contact? This is all very new, and I doubt they have a designated contact for any potential project, but I could be wrong.
- March 5th, 2020, 1:33 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
- Replies: 1398
- Views: 622967
Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects
Many people like to say " Twenty is plenty". Possibly because it rhymes .I thought the limit to lower to was 25. Wrong?
- February 25th, 2020, 1:56 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Thrivent HQ & Moment apartments - 500 7th St & 650 Portland Ave
- Replies: 225
- Views: 404447
Re: Thrivent Headquarters Block - 6th St and Portland Ave
Not necessarily though - if you look at the plans, they actually show an alternative 10-story option that just has a slimmer massing above the 2nd floor (that could be a good thing). So 10 stories instead of 8, but a very similar number of units, possibly even fewer. Comp Plan goal met? Height and ...
- February 7th, 2020, 12:45 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Southside - News & General Topics
- Replies: 1102
- Views: 406247
Re: Southside - General Topics
Burger King should absolutely be denied. It has been closed for 18 months. As the rules state, this should not be allowed to open as a Burger King again. Zoning Board of Adjustment denied the request. It was a unanimous vote. I think they have 10 days to appeal ... Burger King restaurants will reop...
- January 24th, 2020, 10:44 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
- Topic: Northside - News & General Topics
- Replies: 398
- Views: 256761
Re: Northside - General Topics
The MPHA is proposing a really exciting project at 1600 Penn Ave N. It's a site that (via Streetview) has been vacant since at least 2007, and sits about a quarter mile from C Line stops on Golden Valley and Plymouth. The proposed building will be an energy efficient triplex, with excellent insulat...
- January 20th, 2020, 9:39 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: White Bear Lake & Vadnais Heights - General Topics
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4479
Re: White Bear Lake & Vadnais Heights - General Topics
To be fair, a lot of breweries in Minneapolis are also in random spots without commercial neighbors or great walkability. Also to be fair, most of the breweries in Minneapolis are in older industrial areas with re-used buildings. Those that are purpose built, or in newer buildings are almost all ve...
- January 15th, 2020, 11:25 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5283
- Views: 1275096
Re: Southwest LRT (Green Line Extension)
In theory, Communism works.Getting bad political decisions changed is, in theory, cheaper than designing around them.
- January 14th, 2020, 4:16 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5283
- Views: 1275096
Re: Southwest LRT (Green Line Extension)
People talk about the "mistakes" of the Green Line as if they were inevitable and in the past, but it is true today that the Green Line has not been given signal priority entirely along its route. The majority of the issues with street running would be avoided if there was a willingness t...
- January 14th, 2020, 11:41 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5283
- Views: 1275096
Re: Southwest LRT (Green Line Extension)
My take is more that the CC got uniquely screwed up than that there's a systemic suburban speed bias. If you look at the non-downtown portions of the Blue Line, its pretty similar to SWLRT, except for the godforsaken tail south of the airport. Grade separated for major (>15,000AADT) crossings, full...
- January 14th, 2020, 9:59 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5283
- Views: 1275096
Re: Southwest LRT (Green Line Extension)
It's striking how much more willing they are to build expensive bridges to grade separate this line out in wealthy suburbia than they were to do the same for the two dense lines running in the core. Imagine how much cleaner the Snelling / University intersection would be if they'd built a tunnel or...
- January 8th, 2020, 9:41 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
- Topic: 200 Central (2019) - 293' / 27 Stories
- Replies: 72
- Views: 91306
Re: 200 Central (2019) - 293' / 27 Stories
He community meeting was tonight... anybody go to the meeting? The meeting even was promoted on Channel 5... Opposed. Land Use + Development Committee passed a motion to send a recommendation to the Association’s Board of Directors to send a letter of opposition to the Heritage Preservation Commiss...
- December 13th, 2019, 5:00 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: North Loop Neighborhood
- Replies: 1096
- Views: 509179
Re: North Loop Neighborhood
Last I checked, despite the name, LynHall wasn't a food hall in the way that any of the ones Alex listed are. I put them in the category of "...general food hall model ..." mentioned in the above post. Though they are a slightly different business and people can disagree on how broad that...
- December 13th, 2019, 12:17 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: North Loop Neighborhood
- Replies: 1096
- Views: 509179
Re: North Loop Neighborhood
When I was visiting town a couple weeks ago, I hadn't really planned to get lunch at the new-ish Graze food hall, but I was close by and hungry and so I did. My thoughts were, (A) It's really quite nice, and (B) at lunchtime on a weekday it was mostly full—just from my single sample it feels to me ...
- November 22nd, 2019, 10:23 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Uptown - LynLake - The Wedge - News & General
- Replies: 1498
- Views: 598050
Re: Uptown Retail & Restaurant News
Los Andes moving to the Dulono's space as well: https://www.southwestjournal.com/news/biz-buzz/2019/10/los-andes-coming-to-former-dulonos-site/ They came to the Lyndale Neighborhood meeting last month. They have some nice intentions for the interior, as well as live music and cocktails (the reason ...
- November 22nd, 2019, 9:55 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: MSP Airport / Metropolitan Airports Commission
- Replies: 1359
- Views: 359045
Re: MSP Airport
I understand the desire to have an easy access point for hotel guests. That makes sense. I can't understand why they didn't provide some way to get from the hotel to the main terminal without getting into a car/shuttle bus of some kind. I thought the point of a hotel airport was to avoid the need fo...
- October 18th, 2019, 1:08 pm
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Shakopee - Savage - Prior Lake - Scott County
- Replies: 47
- Views: 45316
- September 19th, 2019, 11:17 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Hiawatha-Minnehaha Corridor - General Topics
- Replies: 267
- Views: 233128
Re: Hiawatha-Minnehaha Development & RR Corridor/MinHi Line
Ped access to the Starbucks is really bad, I'll give you that. But I disagree that drive-thru lines will frequently back up all the way onto 42nd. There's actually ample queuing space from the ordering station to the street, wrapping around the building and through the parking lot. This isn't Snell...
- August 8th, 2019, 12:08 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
- Topic: Uptown - LynLake - The Wedge - News & General
- Replies: 1498
- Views: 598050
Re: Uptown Retail & Restaurant News
Apple has too many stores in our metro already. They are not opening any new locations until they close multiple current locations. I know this from talking to current Apple store management staff.
- August 8th, 2019, 11:59 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Highway Removal
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1975
Re: Highway Removal
Jesus, people will just attach "racsim" to literally anything now. If we tear them down now we got the gentrification folks all up in a tizzy. What a fucking bananas world we live in 2019. Did you read the article? The actual information from the reporter had a lot of good context and dis...