Downtown Minneapolis - News & General Topics

[MNdible]

Can't wait to see the light-emitting concrete in person.

[Qhaberl]

Can't wait to see the light-emitting concrete in person.

Same here lol

[mamundsen]

as seanrichardryan said, this has been done for a while. They put some LED light strips in the cutouts. Not really sure why you guys find this so funny...

[martykoessel]

The Depot is planning to extend its event center into the portion of the train shed used for parking:

http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/n ... enter.html

I wonder if they'll keep the skating rink.

[Qhaberl]

With all the development happening around the green line light rail stations, I am surprised that nothing has been built on either of the parking lot just south of Hennepin/warehouse district station. I know the parking lot to the east of Hennepin Avenue has that big Miral on it. The parking lot west of Hennepin Avenue I believe is either contract or public parking. Any thoughts?


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[VacantLuxuries]

The only thing I can think of is developers view the block of strip clubs and night clubs next door as a potential problem for tenants. Especially because whenever some suburbanite claims Downtown Minneapolis is dangerous, they're really referring to that block in particular.

[bubzki2]

Value keeps rising. why sell now?

[grant1simons2]

(bubble)

[Qhaberl]

It would be kind of nice if we could get a convenience store/CVS or something like that. Hopefully one day the black will be redeveloped. Maybe it could include some underground district parking.


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[twincitizen]

A couple downtown projects in line for Met Council cleanup grants, which hopefully will move them toward construction soon: http://finance-commerce.com/2016/12/met ... ants/?ep=1

The Foundry - $406k
Ironclad - $262k

Lots of non-downtown projects in line for smaller grants as well, including FrankLyn

[grant1simons2]

20170106_131955 by grant.simons, on Flickr

[Didier]

What are we looking at here?

[Nathan]

The remodeling work being done on the 5th Street towers. They were supposedly connecting the floor plates and adding a roof top amenity deck iirc

[grant1simons2]

Anyone know how serious this proposal is? It's definitly something.

http://www.studio-b-v.com/gallery-test

[FISHMANPET]

A "project" titled "Gallery Test" that isn't linked from their project page? I'm going to say not at all serious.

[twincitizen]

Just for clarification, that's the downtown YMCA's current location at LaSalle Plaza (30 S 9th St). I'm sure that wasn't immediately obvious to everyone. It took me a second. The fact that the webpage title is "Building Reposition" helped narrow it down.
Here's a streetview for anyone that isn't familiar: https://www.google.com/maps/@44.9759316 ... 56!6m1!1e1

Has the Y even lined up a buyer yet? This mock-up might be what they're going to use in their marketing materials. I'm guessing a renovation quite this extensive won't happen at all...and nothing will happen without a big office tenant on board.

[jffalb]

Anyone know what's going on the old LaSalle Court atrium? The escalators haven't worked for months and now the atrium is boarded up.

[acs]

Barre in the Mason's building has closed

http://www.journalmpls.com/news/biz-buz ... sed-barre/

[LakeCharles]

Anyone know what's going on the old LaSalle Court atrium? The escalators haven't worked for months and now the atrium is boarded up.

There is a sign next to it (or at least there was as of last Friday) that says they are building a new staircase there.

[mamundsen]

I mentioned in the Office Market thread, I heard a rumor that the new Post Office is going into that spot in 811 LaSalle too!