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Re: United Properties / Four Seasons "Gateway" Project (Nicollet Hotel Block)

Posted: December 31st, 2016, 11:42 am
by Nathan
I'll take one Calatrava.

Check please!

A building as iconic as say the "turning torso" here would be incredible for the city and the developer. Something that not only inspires but sticks in your mind. It's such a great location!

Re: United Properties / Four Seasons "Gateway" Project (Nicollet Hotel Block)

Posted: February 5th, 2017, 7:49 pm
by grant1simons2
There was a well permit I missed back in mid-December

http://apps.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/PIApp/ ... 2924410107

Re: United Properties / Four Seasons "Gateway" Project (Nicollet Hotel Block)

Posted: February 14th, 2017, 8:31 pm
by 1West
No news is bad news for this one... and this one is more quiet than an ant fart

Re: United Properties / Four Seasons "Gateway" Project (Nicollet Hotel Block)

Posted: February 21st, 2017, 8:19 pm
by marquette
Noticed 1/2 the parking lot has concrete barriers on it and no public parking....

Re: United Properties / Four Seasons "Gateway" Project (Nicollet Hotel Block)

Posted: April 2nd, 2017, 7:53 pm
by grant1simons2

Re: United Properties / Four Seasons "Gateway" Project (Nicollet Hotel Block)

Posted: April 2nd, 2017, 7:56 pm
by seanrichardryan
No UP, the park is still there, the hotel became the parking lot.

Re: United Properties / Four Seasons "Gateway" Project (Nicollet Hotel Block)

Posted: April 3rd, 2017, 6:12 am
by Qhaberl
No UP, the park is still there, the hotel became the parking lot.


??? What park?


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Re: United Properties / Four Seasons "Gateway" Project (Nicollet Hotel Block)

Posted: April 3rd, 2017, 8:53 pm
by seanrichardryan

Re: United Properties / Four Seasons "Gateway" Project (Nicollet Hotel Block)

Posted: April 3rd, 2017, 8:56 pm
by FISHMANPET
What is this a picture for ants?
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Re: United Properties / Four Seasons "Gateway" Project (Nicollet Hotel Block)

Posted: April 3rd, 2017, 9:02 pm
by seanrichardryan
It gave me errors trying to embed :/

Re: United Properties / Four Seasons "Gateway" Project (Nicollet Hotel Block)

Posted: April 3rd, 2017, 9:03 pm
by FISHMANPET
Also you used a thumbnail link so your link was tiny :(

Re: United Properties / Four Seasons "Gateway" Project (Nicollet Hotel Block)

Posted: April 3rd, 2017, 9:06 pm
by seanrichardryan
internet is hard

Re: United Properties / Four Seasons "Gateway" Project (Nicollet Hotel Block)

Posted: April 3rd, 2017, 9:33 pm
by EOst
Which used to be:
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Nicollet Hotel (this block) visible in background.

Re: United Properties / Four Seasons "Gateway" Project (Nicollet Hotel Block)

Posted: April 4th, 2017, 7:00 am
by Squidward
What are all those people doing?

Re: United Properties / Four Seasons "Gateway" Project (Nicollet Hotel Block)

Posted: April 4th, 2017, 7:34 am
by Architorture
Does anyone know what is holding this one up? Market, Partnerships, Financing....All of the above? Nimby's complaining that it's one story too tall ;)

Re: United Properties / Four Seasons "Gateway" Project (Nicollet Hotel Block)

Posted: April 4th, 2017, 7:50 am
by Silophant
Financing, I think. As frustrating as Stanton's "eight parking spots per unit" stance is, we seriously need other developers willing to take some risk in order to get a project moving in less than years.

Re: United Properties / Four Seasons "Gateway" Project (Nicollet Hotel Block)

Posted: April 4th, 2017, 7:53 am
by Anondson
Squidward: I believe they are out of work/underemployed, what they called "bums", literally laying around. The clustering of unemployed in the gateway area was a huge reason the area was bulldozed in the belief it would help with "cleaning" it up. I think that's what we're seeing there.

Re: United Properties / Four Seasons "Gateway" Project (Nicollet Hotel Block)

Posted: April 4th, 2017, 8:41 am
by Blaisdell Greenway
A lot of said "bums" were seasonal loggers and such who hung around and got drunk all winter until work picked up again. Source: video someone posted here once. My guess is they congregated at the gateway because that's where the train station and SRO's were.

Re: United Properties / Four Seasons "Gateway" Project (Nicollet Hotel Block)

Posted: April 4th, 2017, 9:01 am
by amiller92
Also where the cheap bars were, so the story goes.

Re: United Properties / Four Seasons "Gateway" Project (Nicollet Hotel Block)

Posted: April 4th, 2017, 9:05 am
by kirby96
What are all those people doing?
They are almost certainly skid row inhabitants.

EDIT: whoops, see other folks already made that observation. For some more history on it, look up the TPT documentary "Life on Skid Row" (or something like that) which is specifically about the Gateway and the conditions that led to the bulldozing. That's probably the video referred to above and is super interesting (like REALLY interesting). I think you can find it available online.