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by beige_box
September 15th, 2015, 2:14 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
Topic: Montage (Nye's redevelopment) - 116 E Hennepin Avenue
Replies: 581
Views: 85338

Re: Nye's Redevelopment - 100 block of E Hennepin Avenue

I've never had anyone answer this question to my satisfaction, and the most obvious examples (Manhattan-ward fringes of Brooklyn, southern Somerville in MA, Capitol Hill in Seattle, etc.) seem to demonstrate exactly the opposite, i.e. rent increases only accelerating with new development. Tokyo, Ja...
by beige_box
September 15th, 2015, 1:32 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
Topic: Montage (Nye's redevelopment) - 116 E Hennepin Avenue
Replies: 581
Views: 85338

Re: Nye's Redevelopment - 100 block of E Hennepin Avenue

LakeCharles, it looks like you've only read my very first and very last comments. Basically, after initially being excited to see this project scaled down, I realized that's exactly the reaction developers had hoped for, and that there's no way I'm going to be tricked into cheerleading any of these ...
by beige_box
September 15th, 2015, 12:51 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
Topic: Montage (Nye's redevelopment) - 116 E Hennepin Avenue
Replies: 581
Views: 85338

Re: Nye's Redevelopment - 100 block of E Hennepin Avenue

What I'm hearing is that people who have a problem with the lack of government investment in affordable housing subsidies are taking out their frustration on individual development projects that have nothing directly to do with that goal other than also being housing. Do you think bringing all new ...
by beige_box
September 15th, 2015, 12:06 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
Topic: Montage (Nye's redevelopment) - 116 E Hennepin Avenue
Replies: 581
Views: 85338

Re: Nye's Redevelopment - 100 block of E Hennepin Avenue

Can I just toss into the conversation that work is nearly complete on a very large, massively subsidized housing project at the Pillsbury A Mill, located a few blocks from Nye's? "Artist housing" = affordable housing where discrimination is made perfectly legal, and families and the disad...
by beige_box
September 15th, 2015, 12:02 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
Topic: Montage (Nye's redevelopment) - 116 E Hennepin Avenue
Replies: 581
Views: 85338

Re: Nye's Redevelopment - 100 block of E Hennepin Avenue

The issue I see, however, with the assertion that concentrated poverty will not be a "real problem if government actually commits to providing services to those areas" is that communities characterized by high rates of poverty and comprised primarily of people of color tend not to have th...
by beige_box
September 15th, 2015, 11:55 am
Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
Topic: Montage (Nye's redevelopment) - 116 E Hennepin Avenue
Replies: 581
Views: 85338

Re: Nye's Redevelopment - 100 block of E Hennepin Avenue

Worst for poor people and minorities: status quo with no development Less bad: development status quo Actively good: development plus public investment For some reason, there doesn't seem to be a strong constituency for the third option, which sucks. The reason is because the entire conversation ha...
by beige_box
September 15th, 2015, 11:31 am
Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
Topic: Montage (Nye's redevelopment) - 116 E Hennepin Avenue
Replies: 581
Views: 85338

Re: Nye's Redevelopment - 100 block of E Hennepin Avenue

the high-income households who are actively looking to pay a premium for excluding minorities and poor people from their neighborhood. Do these people exist? Or are they like the baby boomers who have house in Maple Grove and a one-bedroom downtown? They both exist. In my original post about the ba...
by beige_box
September 15th, 2015, 11:10 am
Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
Topic: Montage (Nye's redevelopment) - 116 E Hennepin Avenue
Replies: 581
Views: 85338

Re: Nye's Redevelopment - 100 block of E Hennepin Avenue

@beige_box, is it fair to say that your solution to the affordability crisis is to build affordable housing in desirable neighborhoods as a means of discouraging high income/wealth households from living there? Not all high-income households in general, but the high-income households who are active...
by beige_box
September 15th, 2015, 10:55 am
Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
Topic: Montage (Nye's redevelopment) - 116 E Hennepin Avenue
Replies: 581
Views: 85338

Re: Nye's Redevelopment - 100 block of E Hennepin Avenue

How is building housing for low-income people in neighborhoods they otherwise wouldn't be able to afford "terrible" for those people? NIEBNA isn't going to turn into a ghetto if you add a couple public housing projects. It will just become slightly less desirable to only the worst sort of ...
by beige_box
September 15th, 2015, 10:47 am
Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
Topic: Montage (Nye's redevelopment) - 116 E Hennepin Avenue
Replies: 581
Views: 85338

Re: Nye's Redevelopment - 100 block of E Hennepin Avenue

amiller92, I spent a long time writing a series of responses to those comments you are quoting. Please read them and engage with them instead of trying to derail them with content-free spam comments that add nothing. For those interested, here's a permalink: https://forum.streets.mn/viewtopic.php?f=...
by beige_box
September 15th, 2015, 10:37 am
Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
Topic: Montage (Nye's redevelopment) - 116 E Hennepin Avenue
Replies: 581
Views: 85338

Re: Nye's Redevelopment - 100 block of E Hennepin Avenue

If your solution to housing is to just forklift a communist or socialist economy to replace our free market capitalism, then good luck. When did I say that was my solution? Nor did I say that limiting the housing supply was my solution. My solution was to have the government intervene and build mor...
by beige_box
September 15th, 2015, 9:11 am
Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
Topic: Montage (Nye's redevelopment) - 116 E Hennepin Avenue
Replies: 581
Views: 85338

Re: Nye's Redevelopment - 100 block of E Hennepin Avenue

It's not like this is going to gentrify the neighborhood or anything, considering NIEBNA is already quite a bit wealthier than most neighborhoods. This project doesn't just exist in the tiny sliver of a neighborhood association called NIEBNA, whose boundaries are arbitrary and irrational. All the n...
by beige_box
September 14th, 2015, 9:53 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
Topic: Montage (Nye's redevelopment) - 116 E Hennepin Avenue
Replies: 581
Views: 85338

Re: Nye's Redevelopment - 100 block of E Hennepin Avenue

The type of person the original proposal was marketed to are high-income Baby Boomers living in the suburbs, many of whom would likely rent a 1-bedroom here while still owning a two-car-garage home in Maple Grove (and/or a vacation home in Florida, as from the developers' own mouths in this article:...
by beige_box
September 12th, 2015, 1:21 am
Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
Topic: Montage (Nye's redevelopment) - 116 E Hennepin Avenue
Replies: 581
Views: 85338

Re: Nye's Redevelopment - 100 block of E Hennepin Avenue

I think this is way better. It's better for the street, more sustainable, more likely (over the long term) to function as a normal building for people outside of the wealthy elite. Whereas the original plan signified exclusivity, intended to be a permanent fortification of wealth and privilege, via ...
by beige_box
September 9th, 2015, 3:06 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
Topic: Southside - News & General Topics
Replies: 1102
Views: 393777

Re: Southside - General Topics

If you're really concerned about inequity, maybe some of the chilling comments that Sabri made in the original article should be of more concern than the fact that urbanists don't like this building (because they're white, obviously). A) My we *are* touchy on the race issue, aren't we? I never said...
by beige_box
September 9th, 2015, 12:46 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
Topic: Southside - News & General Topics
Replies: 1102
Views: 393777

Re: Southside - General Topics

Also, thanks for the race-baiting! That really adds to the conversation. So now 'mentioning race at all' = "race-baiting"? Your sarcasm aside, yes, I do think it's worth discussing whether or not most new development is disproportionately catered to White people, or at least White-dominat...
by beige_box
September 5th, 2015, 12:17 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
Topic: Southside - News & General Topics
Replies: 1102
Views: 393777

Re: Southside - General Topics

I don't have any idea what you're talking about. Suffice to say, it's not a conspiracy theory to point out how easy it's been for monied real estate interests to get the "urbanist" crowd on their side, even when the outcome doesn't live up to the urbanists' own criteria. Heck, half you sel...
by beige_box
September 5th, 2015, 11:41 am
Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
Topic: Southside - News & General Topics
Replies: 1102
Views: 393777

Re: Southside - General Topics

We urbanists talk a lot about how we want to bring back our locally owned, small stores to create a vibrant retail scene that is a destination in itself. You hear Frey talk about that vision a lot in regards to downtown and NE. I'd say the south siders and these minority groups might know something...
by beige_box
August 30th, 2015, 9:08 am
Forum: Saint Paul
Topic: West Grand Apartments (2138-2146 Grand Ave)
Replies: 7
Views: 3004

Re: West Grand Apartments (2138-2146 Grand Ave)

Can someone explain to me what's so wrong with this project? Looks to me like an unassuming development with much-needed 3- and 4-bedroom units that will provide an affordable option (at least relative to the ubiquitous luxury 1BRs being built in droves elsewhere) for students and families alike. An...
by beige_box
August 30th, 2015, 8:48 am
Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
Topic: Seventeen10 - 1710 W Lake St (next to 1800 Lake)
Replies: 39
Views: 10424

Re: Seventeen10 - 1710 W Lake St (next to 1800 Lake)

Viewed another way, the 2 homes had a total 5 BRs according to the city's property info site. The CPM structure has 13 BRs. Plus the office and commercial space. Definite net increase in density/usage. I count only 8 BRs with windows though. Seems like something that might be important in 10-20 yea...