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It's so bad. I want to cry.

EDIT: I think they used this trailer as inspiration for the exterior design

Say hello to The Rail.

Here's a shot from the south side. Definitely a big hole. This is a pretty big site.



And from the opposite corner (looking across the site toward 15th & 7th)

The group making the pitch included Richard Davis from US Bank… any chance this is a hint at a US Bank Stadium? http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2014/05/20/minneapolis-vikings-make-final-pitch-for-2018-super-bowl/ Also the article mentions that they used Minnesota winters as a selling point, which I th...

At first I thought that the tower would be going away… It's so unfortunate how it pushes up against the Foshay.

From the start I've thought "Mayo Clinic Square" was a terrible name. I think we're going to have to adopt some sort've nickname for it. I can't see myself ever saying, "Hey, let's go to Mayo Clinic Square!"

While this looks to be alright aesthetically, I for one hope that they're able to break the massing up a little more on this block (and then, hey, maybe go a bit higher). The special thing about this block in my opinion is is adjacency to the library's main entrance. Right now it kinda looks like it...

This is a small sample, but as a current U of M student living off-campus, I have several friends who rave about Trader Joe's and drive to either SLP or St. Paul, I think it could honestly do quite well. My roommates and I, as well as everyone else I know who lives off-campus, cook the majority of o...

Yes. Let's further cement our identity to the rest of the country as a frozen wasteland.

Could we get one of those fancy Apple stores here (or anywhere else downtown)? You know, with all the glass and nothing else. They seem to be a sort've big deal in cities and we don't have one yet (Uptown doesn't count). This seems like it could be a good location, right? Could be nice with some gre...

Avian, I think anything you drop will be made into a big deal. You seem to have a reputation over here

Anyways, 100k seems just massive for a children's retail store.

It'd be cool if they could do residential in the tower & top floor and keep the rest office space. But yeah—wherever the money is.

Forgive my ignorance (I've never been on the trail), but is it really "parkland?" I thought this was just a trail. Anywhere it would be elevated would be so because it's too narrow, right? So anywhere it's elevated there wouldn't be "parkland" anyways. And the article was talking...

I can't believe I just found this one. I was actually walking along 15th last week managed to see a construction worker through the alleys. I'd always thought those alleys could be better utilized, and when I saw him in legitimately had this very idea. So I'm super psyched to see this one go up. I'm...

Does anyone know why the line wraps around to the south and terminates in the south end of the mall in the first place? It always seemed odd to me that the line didn't go straight west on 81st or 82nd and enter the mall on the northeast end. Why was the extra line laid down to detour it? Especially ...

^^^ Genius.

Does anyone have any idea how difficult it would be to build bike-able ramps from the end of the upper-level bridge down to the ground level? Like in the space from STSS to the west pedestrian bridge or so? They could maybe even be done with the lower ends in the center, adjacent to the LRT wall, so...

This is genuinely disheartening news. An actual grocery store is something seriously needed by this community. On the other hand, this Madison Fresh Market place seems (from my quick Yelp research) to be overpriced and too upscale for college students. I'm not sure they would have gotten sufficient ...

But would Wells Fargo do both their office rooftop signs and stadium signs?

I thought the whole idea of the signs was for publicity. If they had a huge sign on the stadium roof there's not much point in two smaller ones nearby, is there?

Any evidence that student housing is "notoriously terrible" or is that just a gut feeling that can't be substantiated? Perhaps Didier is just referring to the fact that college students tend to (especially when renting) trash their house. Or at least not take care of it. Student housing j...