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Allegations that in our current market with very low supply, sellers are discriminating against FHA- and VA-backed mortgages. Resulting in an effective redlining as immigrants and households with low wealth are over represented among federally backed mortgages. Increasingly sellers are avoiding the ...

Delays opening new construction apartments.

https://www.startribune.com/constructio ... 600294909/

For what it is worth, out in Hopkins the city is beginning the planning and community engagement regarding a full reconstruction of 17th Avenue between TH 7 and Excelsior Blvd (the future SWLRT Shady Oak station area) All reconstruction plans call for narrowing the street and including bike faciliti...

YWCA Uptown closing and selling facilities.

https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/ ... ntown.html

And a survey to take.

https://content.govdelivery.com/account ... ns/3686deb

Pretty offensive conduct, imo.

https://sahanjournal.com/housing/shakop ... e-housing/

Redevelopment adjacent to the park and ride station in Chanhassen. 325 units, an Aldi, and other retail (plus more parking)

https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/ ... -plan.html

Anyone have a reason why they'd do that? It doesn't seem like they wanted the sidewalk to meet the railroad perpendicularly, because all of ten feet away no such jog exists where the sidewalk crosses the LRT tracks. I believe the zigzag you noticed is due to safety regulations for ped crossings of ...

Commissioner Alexander retiring after a year. https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis ... 600291125/

Strib on MNDOT’s 10 designs

https://www.startribune.com/interstate- ... 600290342/

Stats about the Lowry Hill Tunnel

https://mspmag.com/arts-and-culture/big ... ll-tunnel/

CNN list of iconic tunnels around the world.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/the-worlds-m ... index.html

Looks Border Ave still accounted for.

I would be interested in a deep dive where this statement by Zelle about the auditors’ recommendation that they “do not align with … construction law”.

In learning there is a thing called “construction law”.

Blaine found to have over-pumped groundwater causing homeowners to lose water in their own wells.

https://www.startribune.com/dnr-unpermi ... 600285751/

Supposedly Blake Road was to be turned over to Hopkins when the reconstruction was over. I think it is still pending.

If the project was more forthcoming ASAP it might have been possible that the county and municipalities made more long term plans for more robust detours, instead of signs pointing towards paint protected gutter-lanes on dangerous county roads. I have some hope imagining that it was known much soone...

Study:
Autonomous cars make traffic worse due to inability to interpret human behavior that humans intuitively understand immediately. https://studyfinds.org/self-driving-car ... -behavior/

Seven and a half years later and, still, no one is in charge of anything.

https://streets.mn/2015/10/28/downtown- ... elsewhere/

I was remembering this one. This was a great post.

If express buses come back to pre-covid levels this is a bad idea. Marq/2 was packed with buses during peak hours.

They sure were! Some long nights going south on Marquette. The timing of lights seemed against moving evening buses, but the turns off Marquette were the big bottlenecks.