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https://www.development65.com/post/development-65-proposes-senior-living-in-st-anthony-village Development 65 proposes senior living in St. Anthony Village We strive to find win-win solutions when designing and creating projects. In St. Anthony, we believe we plan to develop a project that will prov...

The Governor's bonding proposal includes a little more than $12 million for the Grand Rounds Missing Link:

https://mn.gov/mmb/budget/capital-budget/current/

It would be pretty exciting to actually see movement on this.

Star Tribune feature: http://www.startribune.com/wave-of-the-future-downtown-minneapolis-micro-units-rent-for-1-250-a-month/563253662/ The Michigan-based developer of that project, Jonathan Holtzman, was in town this week to tout the project, which he said has been a hit and will serve as a model fo...

St. Paul's interfacing with the river is still very bad in downtown. Granted, it has more of a severe bluff to deal with than Minneapolis, but Minneapolis is working towards a world-class river park on the downtown periphery, while St. Paul is still trying to figure out simply how to get people past...

http://www.startribune.com/famous-dave-s-franchisees-embrace-some-of-its-menu-and-decor-changes/538107212/ In July, the company closed the Calhoun Square location that it had operated since 1996. Originally, it planned to downsize the restaurant to fit into its new smaller footprint of one-third the...

Can see the breakdown here: https://metrocouncil.org/Council-Meetings/Committees/Transportation-Committee/2019/June-10,-2019/Info-1-2019-1st-Quarter-Ridership-Report.aspx The worst gap relative to 2018 was January. Looks like a decrease in that month of >10%, significantly worse than February and Ma...

On the same topic, East Hennepin is finally being 4-3'd in 2020 (partially) and the bike crossing is being fixed:

http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/cip/fut ... -bike-blvd

Arguably worst housing debacle of the current boom.

Cool unique project:

http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/www/gro ... 217761.pdf

"Cycle speedway" on the south side of Royal Foundry Craft Spirits / mini soccer pitch on north side of La Dona Cerveceria.

Could we finally get a pedestrian bridge over 36?

This is the "its a neighbourly day" mural building, for what it's worth.

25 of the units are studios, lol.

decided to crunch some numbers a little and try to estimate how much non-bus modes (lRT, BRT, etc) make up Metro's total ridership numbers: 2014: 19.8% 2015: 27.6% 2016: 29.7% 2017: 32.0% 2018: 34.0% I know its no where close to painting an accurate picture, but if the ~2% increase per year that's ...

My interpretation is that 29-32 are all components of aBRT, so this would boost the B, D and E lines. Nice to see these moving closer to fully-funded ($27 million total here).

Appears to still be happening. Utility work soon:

https://finance-commerce.com/2018/12/wh ... k-project/

My main worry was that his ambition would get the better of him and he'd use the post to pursue obnoxious brand-building, but this hasn't happened at all.

The Green Line is still a star (and the Blue Line is doing great too): https://www.metrotransit.org/green-line-continues-to-see-record-breaking-ridership The Green Line had its busiest month ever in October, keeping the light rail line on pace to set another annual ridership record. More than 1.4 mi...

Edit: not really sure how much say the state legislature has here. Evers could probably find funds somewhere to move this along.

Why didn’t they make all of the Orange line stations inline station? How much time is going to be wasted exiting and re-entering the freeway? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Because this project is an afterthought to place a transit fig-leaf on a massive highway reconstruction project. There wil...

175 units is not terrible for a quarter block.