urbanMSP

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Are there any pictures of the new lobby?

According to this post that includes a map from the business journal, it's a 22-story hotel and apartment building with an 11-story office component (600,000 sq ft).

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost. ... tcount=295

As a Minneapolis resident, I love to see all these projects in Saint Paul too! It's nice to see, supports businesses in both cities, and all this development near the green line helps keep cars off the roads. Maybe the core cities will be up to a million people (total) in 50 or so years!

It's also worth pointing out that even if the electric car is currently powered by coal or natural gas (making carbon emissions not much different than gas cars), some long-term carbon benefit comes from incrementally improving the infrastructure for lower-carbon transportation. Slightly higher dema...

With this and the new towers by the river (Legacy and Encore), I wonder if US bank stadium will even be very visible from the river or the 35W bridge in a few years...not trying to place value on that but just curious.

"I got a service woonerf in that alley last night."

Serviced by Big D construction...

Rosemont! Bald Eagle!!

Cool map! I wonder if we'll ever get to a point where any first ring burbs want to be annexed. The only way I see that happening is if a burb is in some sort of financial trouble and Minneapolis has grown enough to broaden its tax base and lower rates and/or improves services enough. I'm sure there'...

Will the bridge allow for walking from one side of the tracks to the other, or just from that side of the tracks (westbound/northbound) across Chicago Ave? My impression is no, but I'm not sure if I'm missing something...

Wow NYC has added almost an entire Minneapolis since 2010!

This applies more to the far northern suburbs of Miami and West Palm, but I was pretty shocked at the number of gated communities in places like Jupiter and Juno Beach. When I got back here I realized how different it was to see houses along public streets, after not seeing any for five days.

It's 10 shades of near black with chrome racing stripes.

Hmmm...sounds like a new branding opportunity. 10 Shades of Grey Hotels? It's not too far from Augies, etc

It seems like it's been under construction for a few months now if I remember correctly.

I anticipate a mural downtown soon... I'd totally support that! Put a mural on a new development on the lot across Hennepin from the Dylan mural, with the Prince mural facing the Dylan mural. On the lot next to the Dylan mural, make a public plaza/park with references to Dylan and Price so they nev...

I was hoping we were ready for a destroyer, but at least it's not a caravel.

Or worse: a trireme!

Or a frigate...

I can't remember (since things have changed so many times)...are they still doing the preliminary park with the big lawn for a few years before they make the permanent one?

What did they say the timeline was for the plaza near the 38th street station? I assume like 5-10 years?

I personally thought renaming the street because it is affiliated with a rival was just a lazy argument. For that reason, everyone in this forum is now dumber for having listened to it. I award them no points, and may God have mercy on their soul. :lol: But for real, they definitely just botched a p...

Looks like they are starting to build the pedestrian bridge, footings are being constructed for it