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- April 20th, 2020, 4:53 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Apartments vs. Condos | Renting vs. Owning
- Replies: 174
- Views: 38174
Re: Apartments vs. Condos | Renting vs. Owning
"financing is harder to get" Wall Street firms bought up single family homes during the Great Recession (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/02/single-family-landlords-wall-street/582394/) A skeptic might think that owning multifamily housing would bring the same benefits t...
- April 20th, 2020, 2:01 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Nicollet-Central Streetcar
- Replies: 887
- Views: 136073
Re: Nicollet-Central Streetcar
Most other US streetcars suck because they implement little or no priority measures, operate in cities that have weak transit systems, and circulate low-population downtown areas. The Nicollet-Central streetcar as currently envisionsed is too short to be successful, but a longer one would take the ...
- April 20th, 2020, 1:53 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Nicollet-Central Streetcar
- Replies: 887
- Views: 136073
Re: Nicollet-Central Streetcar
I am not optimistic about the city's seriousness about the climate emergency. https://twitter.com/MplsWard10/status/1235573373712785411 Don't know what "removing the bike lane" even means for that block (3000 block of Hennepin), but as annoying as stopped vehicles in the lane are, that bl...
- April 20th, 2020, 12:59 pm
- Forum: Cities Around the World
- Topic: Los Angeles
- Replies: 58
- Views: 36206
Re: Los Angeles
Idea to remove cars from just one street (Broadway) in downtown LA. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-02-16/los-angeles-ban-cars-broadway-downtown-streetcar-pedestrian-zone The plan would still allow fire, police, and buses. A future street car from Staple Center could use it instead of...
- April 20th, 2020, 12:53 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: City living trends and predictions
- Replies: 130
- Views: 79799
Re: City living trends and predictions
Google, Amazon, Tesla are flirting with getting into homebuilding. https://www.businessinsider.com/homebuilder-stocks-struggling-impact-from-tech-company-investment-amazon-google-tesla-2018-10 Feels like home building needs some innovation. If by innovation we mean surveillance capitalism, count me...
- April 20th, 2020, 11:28 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Highway Transitway Corridor Study
- Replies: 84
- Views: 22195
Re: Highway Transitway Corridor Study
Is it not obvious that the reason for this route would be to encourage new development in the undeveloped area surrounding Stillwater? This is why it’s funded by Washington County, right? If it would make this new development into a car-light, pedestrian-friendly area, it sounds like a good idea. Ma...
- April 20th, 2020, 11:15 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Role of Visitors and Spaces for them in Cities
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5244
Re: Role of Visitors and Spaces for them in Cities
Much like Cancun, Orlando & Las Vegas are non-places. They are giant tourist parks. Great for tourism, but nothing to do with urbanism or placemaking for residents (who are mostly just contract workers for those non-places). Think about cities that have a virtual logo in your mind: St. Louis &am...
- April 20th, 2020, 10:04 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Behavioral aspect of commuting
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3674
Re: Behavioral aspect of commuting
Great article.
Yeah, until we prioritize transit, walking, & biking, and make taking a car (excuse me, SUV) more difficult, change is unlikely to happen.
Yeah, until we prioritize transit, walking, & biking, and make taking a car (excuse me, SUV) more difficult, change is unlikely to happen.
- April 20th, 2020, 9:44 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Bicycle Infrastructure
- Replies: 1800
- Views: 1034572
Re: Bicycle Infrastructure
The tree removals are for parking bays, not the bike lanes. Cut the widening and you can save the trees. Good point. This was approved by the SLP City Council. But change is afoot. From the City of SLP: Southeast bikeway improvements Dear St. Louis Park community member, On March 2, 2020, the St. L...
- April 20th, 2020, 9:14 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
- Replies: 5265
- Views: 1247025
Re: Southwest LRT (Green Line Extension)
Possibly incorrect list of Non-Freeway roads that get grade separated crossings from SWLRT: 1. Technology Drive and Prairie Center Drive 2. Prairie Center Drive (again) 3. Flying Cloud Drive 4, Flying Cloud Drive (again) and Shady Oak Rd 5. Felta Rd & Smetana Rd (in a tunnel) 6. Excelsior Blvd ...
- April 20th, 2020, 9:05 am
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, known as SARS-CoV-2
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3621
Re: Twin Cities' National and Global Image
On that note, Florida is also bringing the national average down, which is fascinating. The state seems to have done everything wrong from a policy perspective, and has a vulnerable population, is doing so well. That might validate the idea that heat and humidity help slow the spread of this virus,...
- April 19th, 2020, 11:14 pm
- Forum: Anything Goes
- Topic: Embarrassing Confessions of Urbanists
- Replies: 349
- Views: 98378
Re: Embarrassing Confessions of Urbanists
I’m developing a fetish for European city bike videos on YouTube.
- April 19th, 2020, 10:45 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: MSP Airport / Metropolitan Airports Commission
- Replies: 1359
- Views: 346134
Re: MSP Airport
MSP passenger levels down 95%.
Car parking capacity at … 2% utilization.
https://kstp.com/coronavirus/passenger- ... ?cat=12685
Car parking capacity at … 2% utilization.
https://kstp.com/coronavirus/passenger- ... ?cat=12685
- April 19th, 2020, 7:22 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Roseville / Rosedale - General Topics
- Replies: 161
- Views: 83365
Re: Roseville / Rosedale - General Topics
I’m not convinced the over-55 market is over supplied. My sense that maybe the biggest reason the senior housing apartments are the least likely apartments to be objected to is that the people with the time to make noises at city council or commission meetings are the sort who are most keenly aware...
- April 19th, 2020, 7:10 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Richfield - 66th Street - General Topics
- Replies: 304
- Views: 84324
Re: Richfield - General Topics - 66th Street
It's interesting how this area of Minneapolis actually filled out quite a bit later than the grid in present-day Richfield. That’s the way it usually works, whether it’s the outer reaches of a central city meeting suburbs, or the outer reaches of the US meeting Canada: it ends up being the lowest d...
- April 19th, 2020, 6:54 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Hopkins - General Topics
- Replies: 366
- Views: 130565
Re: Hopkins - General Topics
The EagleBolt was doing fine. Maybe the bears are hibernating in the suburbs now?Bear Cave? Isn't that a very niche target demographic?
- April 18th, 2020, 9:13 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: St. Louis Park - General Topics
- Replies: 557
- Views: 227299
Re: St. Louis Park - General Topics
Is the Galaxy Drive-in on hold, due to COVID-19?
If Micro Center moved, would they choose a smaller space? Large space, low rent, plenty of parking… seems like a dying breed in well to do first ring suburbs.
If Micro Center moved, would they choose a smaller space? Large space, low rent, plenty of parking… seems like a dying breed in well to do first ring suburbs.
- April 18th, 2020, 8:58 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Wooddale Station Area / PLACE - St. Louis Park
- Replies: 167
- Views: 56229
Re: Wooddale Station Area / PLACE - St. Louis Park
So it looks like the north section will go to completion, but the south section is being abandoned?
- April 18th, 2020, 8:51 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: E Line Arterial BRT
- Replies: 148
- Views: 71255
Re: E Line Arterial BRT
I’ll put in that a line going along France to the West Lake Station would make transit from Hopkins to Southdale worth considering. Maybe in the future a SWLRT to (whatever transit we get from West Lake to Uptown) to E-Line is faster than the 70-90 minutes a Hopkins to Southdale transit option is t...
- April 18th, 2020, 8:44 am
- Forum: Suburbs
- Topic: Eden Prairie - General Topics
- Replies: 63
- Views: 39326
Re: Eden Prairie - General Topics
Yeah, the stations that are beyond Hopkins certainly don’t seem like they’ll be surrounded by great urban nodes.
Maybe there really is a difference between first- and second-ring suburbs.
Maybe there really is a difference between first- and second-ring suburbs.