urbanMSP

Does anyone have an idea when/if the Star Tribune will drop a poll? At this point I would probably vote for whomever was ahead between Walz/Murphy in order to deny Swanson.

Not in this building, but somewhat relevant is that the Dunn Bros. in the adjacent Metro Lofts building — which has been there for at least a decade and is adjacent to the green line station — just closed. So that leaves two empty retail bays in Metro Lofts. Hodges Bend is going to need some good l...

The sidewalk in question (on the south side of the parkway) actually ends before it can reach 13th avenue. Anyone using this sidewalk would be stranded mid-block. A new driveway+raised crosswalk would be an upgrade overall considering that this is not currently a reasonable route for anyone.

Heartening to see the add-on (Hamline, Victoria, Western) Green Line stations continuing to post solid to great ridership.

+2 large influxes of office workers in the near future (Hennepin County consolidating into the old Thrivent building and Minneapolis consolidating into the new building). The demand for services in this area is just going to keep increasing.

The ramp/apartments project on the half-block has apparently broken ground:

https://finance-commerce.com/2018/06/he ... partments/

This area of a few blocks is set to absorb over 800 housing units in the next year or so, pretty cool. Hopefully this means even more neighborhood-oriented businesses will follow.

Yes, surprised no one has mentioned it yet, but (if I'm reading correctly) the condo component has increased to 50 units. They also now describe a potential scenario where both the hotel and condos components are replaced with apartments if the hotel is "deemed unfeasible".

I've got no love for Swanson, but it was clearly Ellison's bizarre decision to walk away from being a Representative to pursue the AG position that really caused the chaos. Someone clearly had to get in. Matt Pelikan can't be the de-facto nominee. Not seeing how Ellison's decision is bizarre in any...

I can't wrap my head around this Swanson/Nolan decision. WTF are they both thinking.

Southwest LRT makes a heavily pedestrian/transit focused Hennepin Ave redo more likely.

Yep, this feels like preparation for finally accepting a bid and getting construction moving. Original bid target was probably ~100 million lower, but that just doesn't seem attainable in the current construction climate.

House bonding proposal: http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/comm/docs/42c4fa4d-9347-4339-803c-44fe7ef44649.pdf Well, the $50 million for busway improvements is gone. And hey look, we have $72 million going towards "Local Road Program Undesignated". :roll: Nothing like using state dollars from...

No, they actually recommend denial of "reguiding" the future land use from Industrial to Transitional Industrial. I really don't know what to make of this. Apparently the North Loop is intended to have an extremely stark cut-off between the neighborhood and pure industrial? The portion of ...

This would all be less soul-sucking if it hadn't been so obvious from the start.

https://finance-commerce.com/2018/04/why-wellington-artspace-revised-bassett-creek-plans/ Kind of interesting. "Wellington also controls about 5 additional acres in the Harrison neighborhood in the southwest quadrant of Second Avenue North and Van White Memorial Boulevard. The developer plans t...

What a weird effort. Of course it's going to cost money.

Pretty incredible Committee of the Whole agenda for the 12th:

http://www.minneapolismn.gov/meetings/p ... MSP-209880

11 potential projects on the docket, some known and some brand new.

Tonight is insane for Minneapolis development news, wow.

MN Senate special election tomorrow in district 54 (Cottage Grove area).

https://ballotpedia.org/Minnesota_state ... ions,_2018

If you're in the South/East Metro and care about the transportation funding picture (among other things), I would suggest looking into it.