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- September 11th, 2015, 8:45 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Vikings Stadium Legislation/Financing Package
- Replies: 261
- Views: 26991
Re: Vikings Stadium Legislation/Financing Package
Most of NFL revenue is TV contract money. And that money is used to pay players’ salaries. Taxes on players’ salaries will add $14 million to Minnesota coffers this year. This number increases annually by 5% or so as the salary cap grows. Next year it’ll be nearly $15 million, in 10 years it’ll be $...
- September 9th, 2015, 2:53 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Stadium Parking Ramp Development Site - 25 stories / 294'
- Replies: 1070
- Views: 307580
Re: Stadium Parking Ramp Air Rights Development
I think we can be fairly certain that this is indeed an image of Ryan’s air rights building. That looks like a 5-level parking ramp within the liner parcel. And that’d be the logical place for them to add parking, given the fact that they’ve been shut out of the stadium ramp.
- August 25th, 2015, 8:52 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Minnetonka Area – General Topics
- Replies: 201
- Views: 100873
Re: Minnetonka – General Topics
The reason why students do so well in Minnetonka is because the students come from homes with ample resources. Not because the administration is particularly adept. That's why people mock their back patting. The district figured out years ago that if they increased enrollment, the cost per student ...
- August 25th, 2015, 7:31 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Minnetonka Area – General Topics
- Replies: 201
- Views: 100873
Re: Minnetonka – General Topics
My kids have been enrolled in this district since 1998. We fully understand education issues in our city. That’s why so many Minnetonka kids (encouraged by their parents) want to make sure poor and/or minority kids get additional help. Every week for the last 17 years, hundreds of Minnetonka student...
- August 12th, 2015, 6:37 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: 2024 Olympic Bid?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 18290
Re: 2024 Olympic Bid?
An Olympic Downhill requires a 3,000 ft. vertical drop (roughly). The largest hill in the midwest (Lutsen) has a vertical drop of only 825 ft. So I think that pretty much rules Duluth out.
- August 12th, 2015, 10:15 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: 2024 Olympic Bid?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 18290
Re: 2024 Olympic Bid?
Why is it not possible? A track needs an area of at least 200 x 120 yds. TCF’s floor is only about 130 x 80. We’d have to remove more than half of the lower bowl seating - along with all of the locker rooms, offices and storage underneath - to accomodate a track. US Bank’s floor is even smaller, so...
- August 12th, 2015, 9:23 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: 2024 Olympic Bid?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 18290
Re: 2024 Olympic Bid?
Indeed. And it’s not possible to remodel either TCF or US Bank to accommodate track and field. So if we wanted the summer olympics, we'd have to build yet another stadium.We've got stadia out the whazoo
- August 11th, 2015, 1:32 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: U.S. Bank Stadium
- Replies: 2080
- Views: 199764
- August 11th, 2015, 11:38 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: U.S. Bank Stadium
- Replies: 2080
- Views: 199764
Re: U.S. Bank Stadium Construction Updates
Zygi also bought lights to illuminate the interior in various colors that’ll seep through the roof and clerestory. So at night the building will glow continually, top to bottom, inside and out.
- July 27th, 2015, 8:20 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Suburbs - General Topics
- Replies: 1138
- Views: 357846
Re: Suburbs - General Topics
But is Sarasota development being inhibited at all? There are a lot of complaints from developers in that article, but even with the new rules there’s a 1,999 home development, a 5,100 home development, and a 1,563 home development in the works.
- July 27th, 2015, 8:00 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Suburbs - General Topics
- Replies: 1138
- Views: 357846
Re: Suburbs - General Topics
But does that have an appreciable effect? It seems like that’d just be a speed bump on the road to development.Require developments prove their tax base supports the infrastructure given to the city before cities and counties approve them.
- July 27th, 2015, 7:49 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Suburbs - General Topics
- Replies: 1138
- Views: 357846
Re: Suburbs - General Topics
But what about the farmer who just wants to sell his land and retire?
- July 27th, 2015, 7:27 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Suburbs - General Topics
- Replies: 1138
- Views: 357846
Re: Suburbs - General Topics
I’ve often wondered what efforts are made to inhibit development in the exurbs. Apparently there’s something called the Metropolitan Agricultural Preserves Program which has protected 210,000 acres from development in the last couple of years. Not bad! But Dakota County’s conservation guy says “the ...
- July 22nd, 2015, 11:07 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Vikings Stadium Legislation/Financing Package
- Replies: 261
- Views: 26991
Re: Vikings Stadium Legislation/Financing Package
Yep. According to this story "a strategy of fringe parking to capture employees on the outskirts of the downtown core" was apparently the policy from 1970 until 2003.
http://tcbmag.com/Industries/Real-Estat ... -De?page=2
http://tcbmag.com/Industries/Real-Estat ... -De?page=2
- July 10th, 2015, 9:17 am
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: Stadium LRT Station, Ped Bridge & Plaza (MSFA block)
- Replies: 466
- Views: 76307
Re: Downtown East LRT Ped Bridge & Stadium Plaza (MSFA Block
I saw on Twitter yesterday that the Vikings are going to get half the revenue from advertising ON the LRT platform, projected to be up to $200,000 per year. Anyone know more details about that? Giving away $200,000 a year in existing advertising revenue to the Vikings? The Vikings will get an estim...
- June 29th, 2015, 3:46 pm
- Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
- Topic: North Loop Neighborhood
- Replies: 1096
- Views: 506365
Re: North Loop Neighborhood
http://www.districtenergy.comwe don't put power plants in the heart of an urban area
- June 26th, 2015, 8:40 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Road Crime
- Replies: 430
- Views: 64280
Re: Road Crime
Apparently they've had 11,000 tours with no incidents. So cars have actually done a good job of accomodating pedal pubs.
http://www.startribune.com/police-drive ... 309823911/
http://www.startribune.com/police-drive ... 309823911/
- June 17th, 2015, 7:04 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Housing Market/Economics - General Topics
- Replies: 256
- Views: 119461
Re: The economics of housing
But isn’t your degree of exposure related moreso to your mortgage size vs. your home equity? How is a townhome in Chaska (which is booming) more dangerous than “over-investing” in Como Park?How do I convince my friends that they are ALL absolutely crazy and doomed with the next downturn?
- June 15th, 2015, 3:55 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Housing Market/Economics - General Topics
- Replies: 256
- Views: 119461
Re: The economics of housing
Over six years starting in 2006, Twin Cities home values dropped by 35%. That’s something like $200 billion in household wealth wiped out - the equivalent of a million median-priced homes. Yet we’ve recovered reasonably well, no? Is the suburban economy as fragile as some on this forum think?
- May 29th, 2015, 10:34 am
- Forum: Nostalgia
- Topic: Soccer Stadium in Minneapolis (cancelled)
- Replies: 1001
- Views: 174518
Re: Major League Soccer Stadium in Minneapolis
So we should ignore his crimes because he climbed the corporate ladder before committing them?So the fact that he had to work all the way up to CEO before that happened means nothing?
Look, I’m not anti-billionaire. It’s just that McGuire doesn't seem particularly trustworthy.