urbanMSP

Overhead wire installation has been occurring on campus between Stadium Village and East Bank Stations for the last week or two.

I totally agree with your desire for choice - a house in the suburbs and commuting by car should always be choices available for people. The problem that I (and others) on this board have is that this lifestyle choice is effectively (and heavily) subsidized by all forms of government through highway...

I agree; with the Lindau Ln eastward extension in planning, it seems like it should be natural to coordinate the two. I can't imagine it costing much more than the $30M already pledged to this. Maybe it's too hard to put bus stops in that location for transfers? It would certainly make arriving at t...

Big complex at the end of the North Loop between 8th Ave N and the Plymouth Ave Bridge, right? So they 100,00- square feet...that seems like alot! To be clear, the printing operations are likely to stay put, right? Just the newsroom / office space in DTE near the Metrodome is a part of this future ...

Indeed, housing is a major component of our economy. But this is a huge anomaly historically - it's all part of the Growth Ponzi Scheme . In a healthy, functioning economy, things like infrastructure, housing, and construction facilitate the productivity of the economy, not drive it. This isn't to d...

I believe that rails rust very quickly when unused (as in, a matter of a day or two). Thus, you can tell whether a rail line is active by checking how shiny the tops of the rails are. It's just a thin layer of surface oxidization, though - nothing to worry about. The trains will wear it off in no ti...

This was just approved by the Excelsior City Council. It's gonna happen.

Links? Details? Very exciting!

fotoapparatic: I have to disagree. For centuries, the standard "civic" style in Western cultures has essentially been Greco-roman. (See, e.g., Washington, DC.) Civic structures were built with that aesthetic precisely because they were NOT the wild architectural vogue of the time - they re...

I totally agree with you in principle, but you're not likely to see any small-scale developments (anywhere, really) because there are no more small developers. I think there's an economy of scale here, where you get a lot more bang for your buck to redevelop a full half-block, rather than a small 45...

This is just me, but I would really love to see some traditional "civic architecture" in this stadium. As someone said (maybe in this forum, maybe in another), wild and crazy art is fine when it's on display in the Walker; when it's a public building that many of us will see every day, it ...

I think the proposal is to increase the tax from 0.25% to 0.5%. That, along with the sales-tax broadening scheme of Gov. Dayton, would increase annual incomes for the CTIB to something like ~$250M per annum. I belive this comes with the stipulation that the CTIB would take on 100% of operating subsi...

I'm pretty sure I saw one of the Type IIs in service this morning, as the front car of a 3-car northbound train downtown (around 8am or so). Either that, or it was an old car repainted with the new METRO livery.

Long term, I'd love to see a line like this continued on to Worthington and Sioux City and/or Sioux Falls (my hometown). The state of South Dakota has no passenger rail service (except for a tourist train near Mt. Rushmore).

(I know that Sioux Falls isn't technically outstate Minnesota, but it's not far from the MN border, and shares a lot of cultural similarities with MN, kind of like Fargo. I couldn't find any comparable forums to this for SF development.) I grew up in Sioux Falls, and I saw that they are moving forwa...

Sorry for sparking off a firestorm here. My reply was a bit off the cuff, and I agree with all of the criticisms of it offered above. I don't live in the neighborhood, but I do frequent the area and play softball at the Commons occasionally. The article linked above seems to indicate that the concer...

And I think there is going to be a big gathering for people to oppose this project.....according to an snippet I saw in the Strib or Biz Journal..... Which is just stupid. Presently, this lot is completely vacant (except for, I believe, weeds and a picnic table). Prime location, fits the context of...

Gosh now I feel old for graduating in 2008.

Heh. Try 1996

Try that's when my mom was born!

Is this a typo? This is seriously blowing my mind. If you really mean this statement literally, you cannot possibly be more than like 4 years old.

Am I missing something here?

I first saw the new LCD messages last Thursday (on my way to the Hobbit midnight showing).

Big News!

http://www.startribune.com/local/minnea ... 42191.html

Hmm. That link is broken now... but a Google search shows the same headline, although it is broken too. Did the Strib take this item down? Was this news not ready to be announced?

I think HCMC is Brutiful.

You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but in my mind, calling Brutalism "beautiful" or lauding it because of its historic significance is just another false equivalence. Barren, hulking, and hostile should never be words used to describe civic structures.