urbanMSP

I definitely remember discussing this before, but neither I or twincitizen could find a dedicated thread, so here we go.

With the impending closure of the Upper St. Anthony Falls Lock, the City of Minneapolis is redeveloping the Upper Harbor Terminal - basically the whole west bank of the river from Lowry to a few blocks north of Dowling - as part of the greater Above the Falls plan. The plan calls for demolishing the terminal, extending the Grand Rounds park/trail system through the area next to the river, and developing a business park with riverfront amenities in the rest of the space.

City of Minneapolis presentation
Star Tribune article

43 acres of riverfront. Wow.

that's significant. what a boost for the northside.

Throwback to 2011, just for conversation, here is a design finalist for redesigning the Upper Mississippi in Minneapolis.

http://worldlandscapearchitect.com/mrdc ... ient-river

Forgot the power lines, I see.

Open house on May 24th

https://twitter.com/Growingmpls/status/ ... 9139780608

Attend the Upper Harbor Terminal Open House, Tues, May 24. Learn more about the North Mpls riverfront development. http://twitter.com/Growingmpls/status/7 ... 08/photo/1

First Avenue amphitheater pitched to anchor Minneapolis riverfront development
http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/n ... nchor.html

Only one submission to be master developer of Upper Harbor Terminal.

http://www.minneapolismn.gov/www/groups ... 188308.pdf

Five submissions to be partner developers though.

First Avenue amphitheater pitched to anchor Minneapolis riverfront development
http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/n ... nchor.html

Cool idea, though I'm concerned about the amount of parking that would be required for a 20,000 seat amphitheater in such a transit-inaccessible location.

Time to restart the bus line up Washington Ave N!

They can utilize the tiki shuttle from Pyscho Suzi's

Strib article.

This one says 8-10,000 seats for the amphitheater. Which probably makes more sense. 20,000 seats is tremendous.

Reported attendance at this year's Rock the Garden (at Boom Island) was around 14,000. 10,000 compares well with Red Rocks, which is able to draw pretty big name acts. It falls far short of larger outdoor venues like WA's The Gorge or WI's Alpine Valley or Bay Area's Shoreline (all 20k+)

All things being equal, my preference would be for this concert facility to be at Boom Island (that unbeatable skyline view!), but I can see why Upper Harbor Terminal would win out, reason #1 being the question if the Park Board would even allow a permanent structure @ Boom Island, reason #2 being that Boom Island has residential neighbors and zero parking.

Nick Halter tweeted today to emphasize the word "accommodate" in "accomodate 20,000." So that makes sense.

Sure would be odd having an 8 seat amphitheater Silophant.

Would love to see the old railroad tracks be used to connect the North Loop to this proposal. Either Bike trail or possibly even streetcar!

Sure would be odd having an 8 seat amphitheater Silophant.

There's precedent!

Drawings of potential amphitheater.

http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/n ... ml?ana=twt

Are they going to force people to use the pedestrian bridge that would cross, what, a 2 lane road?

I'm guessing the ped bridge is more about crossing the tracks safely than the road. That being said, does this spur get a huge amount of use, or is it like the one along Hiawatha that sees like two trains per day?

This appears to be the presentation the article was working from.