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June 1st, 2013, 8:09 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
Topic: Coze Flats - (628 University Ave SE)
Replies: 63
Views: 21525

Re: 628 University Ave SE

Meh. Just because it's old... have you looked at the house in question? Agree- this is not an impressive house and it is on busy Unviversity Ave- revedelopment is much better than preservation in this case. If historic preservation was based on age alone, a bunch of the downtown parking lots would ...
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May 25th, 2013, 11:00 am
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: DTE: Wells Fargo, Radisson Red, Edition Apts & Millwright Building
Replies: 2909
Views: 448028

Re: Star Tribune Blocks

I really like parks on top of underground parking ramps- and like them in many settings, but in this case, I don't see the need to have underground parking below the park. Downtown has a severe lack of mature trees- hardly any. And to have good solid trees- like hundred year old oaks or similar, the...
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April 30th, 2013, 10:15 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: StoneBridge (2nd Street South & 11th Avenue South)
Replies: 339
Views: 64967

Re: StoneBridge (2nd Street South & 11th Avenue South)

Stopped in the sales center yesterday. They are over 50 units sold- about a third of total. Construction will start to speed up soon. Will be putting up a floor a week by the end of May.
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April 14th, 2013, 9:21 pm
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: Minneapolis & St. Paul Fantasies and Speculations
Replies: 445
Views: 71736

Re: Convention Center Hotel - (330 South 12th Street)

I know I'm getting way off topic now, but that same week, I took a few pictures (sorry- don't know where they are) of the building during demolision, then walked over to the old Conservatory which was also being demolished at the same time for the new USBank Headquaters and took a photo of a bobcat ...
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April 14th, 2013, 8:54 pm
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: Minneapolis & St. Paul Fantasies and Speculations
Replies: 445
Views: 71736

Re: Convention Center Hotel - (330 South 12th Street)

Also one of my favorites. While they were taking it down, I was giving family friends from the Netherlands a tour of downtown and we were standing on the HCGC corner of of 3rd and 7th. I was lamenting to them about its destruction and they quizzed me as to why- stating that international style is al...
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March 31st, 2013, 9:50 am
Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
Topic: Walker Library
Replies: 153
Views: 35095

Re: Walker Library

Maybe the city (or county?) should consider converting the intersection to where all pedestrians can walk any direction including diagonally all at once for X number of seconds. Then whether it is a double or triple turn lane wouldn't matter because it would be all cars and no peds for the next peri...
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March 2nd, 2013, 12:21 am
Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
Topic: Coze Flats - (628 University Ave SE)
Replies: 63
Views: 21525

Re: 628 University Ave SE

I like it- the 4 story height, the color, how the facade is broken up. I think the 7th street pedestrian experience is very cold- to much blank wall from the underground parking, but otherwise it's good. I also think ESG tends to do a good job of detailing so that gives me additional confidence that...
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February 21st, 2013, 9:25 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
Topic: The Bridges - (950 University Avenue SE)
Replies: 242
Views: 46212

Re: The Bridges - (950 University Avenue SE)

I hadn't noticed the high voltage lines directly to the south. Oh well, what's one more cancer causer when you are already breathing the freeway fumes. I still like it though and I'd still choose the west or south view over the others.
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February 20th, 2013, 9:10 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
Topic: The Bridges - (950 University Avenue SE)
Replies: 242
Views: 46212

Re: The Bridges - (950 University Avenue SE)

I agree with gobezlij- per the view. The view of downtown when crossing the river on 35W south is one of the best in the whole city and this building will have that same view except from a higher vantage point. These views, IMO, will be better than from places like the Phoenix or the Falls as it wil...
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February 5th, 2013, 9:53 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Izzy's Ice Cream Factory
Replies: 202
Views: 62626

Re: Izzy's Ice Cream Factory

Those punch windows facing the park look so tiny- much smaller than they appeared in the model or that last rendering.
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January 7th, 2013, 9:54 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: Junction Flats - (643 Fifth Street North)
Replies: 121
Views: 34240

Re: Junction Flats - (643 Fifth Street North)

It would be difficult (impossible?) to suppy steam to the downtown district heating system from power plants that are not located downtown. Same goes for the one south of Accenture Tower on 3rd Ave. They may not always be pretty or well located after decades of growth, but district heating is a good...
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January 2nd, 2013, 11:53 pm
Forum: Saint Paul
Topic: Grand & Finn Apartments - (2124 Grand Avenue)
Replies: 45
Views: 11691

Re: 2124 Grand Ave

Those renderings seem to have plopped the building into the middle of a forest with S-Class Mercedes frolicking about. and also according to that same picture, the newly planted street trees are 30+' while the urban forest in the background appears to be topping out at 120+'. That is some significa...