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Ultimately, I agree with Didier. It is really fairly straight forward getting there no matter where you come from. While there might be an even superior site somewhere else in the city, I don't care so much I'll fling f-bombs at strangers in a community forum over it. I can't imagine caring so much ...

we're you thinking the old walker library?

John above had the right, the façade was to the old Gutherie when it was attached to the Walker.

Reminds me of the façade of the old Walker. In an unpleasant way . . .

Foundation for the final townhomes of the Marketplace and Main project are being dug now, says the City of Hopkins Facebook page. These are ones that face onto Mainstreet, prior townhomes just off Mainstreet on 7th are finishing right now. This is an awkward lot that the city struggled to fill with ...

I guess I would want it stepped back from the street above the 2nd story even further, plus now is the time to grab more sidewalk for possible cafe use or even benches to rest and crowd gaze. Development like this is the time.

Maybe there is some advantage to having distributed OMFs to having large centralized facilities? I can think of one operational advantage. Imagine a train-auto collision on the track between the OMF and the distant line. Not only would the affected line where the crash stops service, but every line...

And end to end- WHAT, exactly is at the 'end' of the proposed SW line?
Low density, wealthy 'choice' riders.

There are even more non-wealthy condo living, apartment dwelling, townhome renting residents living out there.

Dolce reduced from 163 units to 158. Fewer studio and more 3-bedroom units (for families). Instead of one level underground parking, will have two underground levels. Ground level will have more usable space for residents. I'm pleasantly surprised, these are nice improvements. Hope the city goes wit...

Hopkins is very aware they are being pegged for the operations and maintenance facility. But should they also be told it will be for the Midtown line also? I ask because at the Hopkins LRT open house the officials told the gathered residents that the facility couldn't be in Minneapolis because they ...

No need for a maintenance facility on such a short line, especially with the Southwest facility going in Hopkins.

Should Hopkins get a say? Or at the least a heads up?

Is there no plan to locate a maintenance facility along the line? Wonder which neighborhood gets to win that lottery.

Ideally, redoing the street I'm a better way will result in higher property values, leading to higher tax revenue, offsetting any higher cost to construct or maintain. Also, the city has a huge road network, and this one project is not going to tip the balance very much. First you must have buildin...

That's about what I'd expect as the lowest resistance type of development. There is an well used template to quickly slap that up too.

Here is a wild, proposal. Not sure if the timing of doing this works out at all, but my idea came from this map at the twin city and western webpage. [Warning, link is to a .pdf] http://tcwr.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/Rail-Map.pdf What if we could keep TCW's link between its StP yards and custom...

The LynLake redevelopment, plus this 29th pedestrianization proposal make it very desirable to have done, or to do, mid-block cut arounds like was done on the Edina side of 50th and France. If there is going to be no room for turn lanes, mid block cut arounds are seriously needed here.

^^^ I was getting confused, I'm assuming you mean York, not France. Yup, I had France Ave on the brain and it slipped in. I meant York. The thought with closing the north portion of Southdale Circle to York, and routing it to Xerxes is because the old Best Buy property already has access for cars t...

Can anything in downtown StP be that tall with the nearby airport? I hope this can be kept for when the market reignites. Nice signature look and repair of access to the river.

In a way it is too bad the recent developments around the greenway, especially everything fronting on Lake Street, weren't advised or guided to provide wider sidewalks anyway, or even mid-block pedestrian alleyway cut throughs. Urban residents seem to love their pedestrian alleys.

Meh, I'd like to see something happen with those Edina homes on Xerxes, but I don't think it needs to be part of this if it would just incentivize more ugly whole-block construction. Something is like to see in this vicinity is for the ol' Best Buy site sitting vacant, traffic in and out Southdale C...

The objections to heights on York at this date is just understandable. I mean, just down York about three blocks from this are very tall apartments, twelve stories? I think though that the height objections for recent projects were because they were on through streets into their neighborhoods possib...