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by beige_box
October 7th, 2015, 11:25 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
Topic: 628 East Franklin Avenue
Replies: 32
Views: 3853

Re: 628 East Franklin Avenue

I'm glad to find out the $1200 units are 2BR. Less glad to find out that FISHMANPET was willing to doublethink his way into arguing that $1200 would be a fair rent for 1BRs just because the developers said it was, only to have it turn out that even the developers weren't saying it was.
by beige_box
October 6th, 2015, 9:33 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
Topic: 628 East Franklin Avenue
Replies: 32
Views: 3853

Re: 628 East Franklin Avenue

where are the piles of non-profit developers lining up to develop naturally affordable housing without subsidy if it's so easy to do it? Who said without subsidy? My whole point is that the city selling this particular building for a huge loss amounts to a subsidy, and I'm wondering why the city co...
by beige_box
October 6th, 2015, 7:24 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
Topic: 628 East Franklin Avenue
Replies: 32
Views: 3853

Re: 628 East Franklin Avenue

"Spartan" is just another way to stigmatize it. File somewhere on the scale that runs from "projects" all the way to "sketchy" or "ghetto."

Thanks for editing my previous posts, moderators. LOLZ u got me!! ;) ;) ;)
by beige_box
October 6th, 2015, 6:26 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
Topic: 628 East Franklin Avenue
Replies: 32
Views: 3853

Re: 628 East Franklin Avenue

OK but do we have to always call them "spartan finishes" as if not having granite or titanium makes it akin to a soldier's bunk or a monk's monastic chambers or whatever? EDIT: Also, yes, developers always say that. I don't know why people think that calling up the person who stands to gai...
by beige_box
October 6th, 2015, 5:35 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
Topic: 628 East Franklin Avenue
Replies: 32
Views: 3853

Re: 628 East Franklin Avenue

Hard to know what to do in a case like this where the market can't really do anything without a nudge and the price is just too high for the government to waste limited resources on for a few units. Giving "the market" "a nudge" is an expression I will remember, though. Here it ...
by beige_box
October 6th, 2015, 5:30 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
Topic: 628 East Franklin Avenue
Replies: 32
Views: 3853

Re: 628 East Franklin Avenue

If only some hippie commune had divined the full asking price and the money for renovations so they could rent the units out for $1 a year or a jar of homemade jam." Er, I thought you had some line you liked to use, about not distorting your rhetorical opponent's POV in order to succumb to the...
by beige_box
October 6th, 2015, 5:06 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
Topic: 628 East Franklin Avenue
Replies: 32
Views: 3853

Re: 628 East Franklin Avenue

Yeah 1300 is pretty standard market rate for a 1br these days. The ones that are cheaper are generally small, run down, or lacking in modern amenities. I think everyone fell asleep a few years ago and didn't notice rents creeping up because of the low vacancy rate and shortage of rentals coupled wi...
by beige_box
October 5th, 2015, 8:00 am
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: Housing Market/Economics - General Topics
Replies: 255
Views: 114260

Re: Lake Calhoun

We Need More Affordable Housing.
by beige_box
October 2nd, 2015, 2:24 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
Topic: 628 East Franklin Avenue
Replies: 32
Views: 3853

Re: 628 East Franlin Avenue

Is $1200 rent for a 1-bedroom asking a bit much? Don't comparable 1BRs in Loring Park and Stevens Square, including freshly refurbished ones, top out at about $1000? At least, a year or two ago they did...
by beige_box
September 18th, 2015, 1:31 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics
Replies: 2027
Views: 783409

Re: Downtown Minneapolis General Topics & Development Map

Have we really let Beige take over two threads now, neither of which are more than tangentially related to the topic that he insists we discuss with him? Mods, please relocate these to an appropriate thread in Anything Goes and clear it out of here. I don't insist you discuss anything with me. All ...
by beige_box
September 16th, 2015, 1:32 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics
Replies: 2027
Views: 783409

Re: Downtown Minneapolis General Topics & Development Map

The fundamental disconnect is that you think that new housing means more supply to meet existing demand, no matter what. I think that the new developments are designed and marketed such that they create new demand without addressing existing demand. Meanwhile, at the lower income levels, the populat...
by beige_box
September 16th, 2015, 1:23 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics
Replies: 2027
Views: 783409

Re: Downtown Minneapolis General Topics & Development Map

His point is that people have always been marketing a different kind of living. Also your first statement implies that basically everyone in the suburbs is by default racists means that yes, you do in fact hate people that live in the suburbs. I'm not sure there's much value in discussing fairness ...
by beige_box
September 16th, 2015, 1:16 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics
Replies: 2027
Views: 783409

Re: Downtown Minneapolis General Topics & Development Map

I want to address this separately because it cuts to the heart of the matter: I see this weird anti-gentrifcation bend sometimes where it seems the only solution to the problem of "gentrification" (and I put it in scare quotes because it's such an overly used term that it's lost all meanin...
by beige_box
September 16th, 2015, 1:04 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics
Replies: 2027
Views: 783409

Re: Downtown Minneapolis General Topics & Development Map

I don't hate people who have ever lived in a suburb. But I think that the type of suburbanites who need all sorts of amenities (and, probably, heavy racist policing) to be goaded into living in the city are probably not the sort of people who should be the primary target for occupying new housing. E...
by beige_box
September 16th, 2015, 11:56 am
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics
Replies: 2027
Views: 783409

Re: Downtown Minneapolis General Topics & Development Map

OK, I guess I was wrong. The tour caters to suburbanites-who-don't-know-anything-about-downtown-and-might-not-live-there-otherwise AND housing-development-insiders*. My mistake. For real though, this tour isn't just advertising a product (in this case, the apartments themselves). That would be one t...
by beige_box
September 16th, 2015, 11:02 am
Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
Topic: Montage (Nye's redevelopment) - 116 E Hennepin Avenue
Replies: 581
Views: 85402

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

C'mon guys, let's move on. I think the bricks are an OK color, but maybe they could've gone with something else. What do you think? This is important land-use stuff. I think it would be better urbanism if the bricks were different.
by beige_box
September 16th, 2015, 10:38 am
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics
Replies: 2027
Views: 783409

Re: Downtown Minneapolis General Topics & Development Map

Here's some new website-thing that's taking people on tours of "five downtown neighborhoods" (a.k.a. everything except Elliot Park (hmmm) + a very generous definition of 'downtown Northeast') to visit "residential communities" (a.k.a. new-ish high-end apartment developments): htt...
by beige_box
September 16th, 2015, 10:27 am
Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
Topic: Montage (Nye's redevelopment) - 116 E Hennepin Avenue
Replies: 581
Views: 85402

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

This is the only conversation we should be having, in every thread. Discussing individual development projects in isolation marginalizes the deep-structural sociopolitical context in which development occurs. That's a formula for bad land-use policy if there ever was one. I thought that's what these...