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

Postby Nathan » December 31st, 2016, 11:42 am

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!

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

Postby grant1simons2 » February 5th, 2017, 7:49 pm

There was a well permit I missed back in mid-December

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

Postby 1West » February 14th, 2017, 8:31 pm

No news is bad news for this one... and this one is more quiet than an ant fart

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

Postby marquette » February 21st, 2017, 8:19 pm

Noticed 1/2 the parking lot has concrete barriers on it and no public parking....

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

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

Postby seanrichardryan » April 2nd, 2017, 7:56 pm

No UP, the park is still there, the hotel became the parking lot.
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Re: United Properties / Four Seasons "Gateway" Project (Nicollet Hotel Block)

Postby Qhaberl » April 3rd, 2017, 6:12 am

No UP, the park is still there, the hotel became the parking lot.


??? What park?


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Postby seanrichardryan » April 3rd, 2017, 8:53 pm

Q. What, what? A. In da butt.

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

Postby FISHMANPET » April 3rd, 2017, 8:56 pm

What is this a picture for ants?
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Postby seanrichardryan » April 3rd, 2017, 9:02 pm

It gave me errors trying to embed :/
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Postby FISHMANPET » April 3rd, 2017, 9:03 pm

Also you used a thumbnail link so your link was tiny :(

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Postby seanrichardryan » April 3rd, 2017, 9:06 pm

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

Postby EOst » April 3rd, 2017, 9:33 pm

Which used to be:
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Nicollet Hotel (this block) visible in background.

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

Postby Squidward » April 4th, 2017, 7:00 am

What are all those people doing?

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

Postby Architorture » April 4th, 2017, 7:34 am

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 ;)

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

Postby Silophant » April 4th, 2017, 7:50 am

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

Postby Anondson » April 4th, 2017, 7:53 am

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.

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

Postby Blaisdell Greenway » April 4th, 2017, 8:41 am

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.

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

Postby amiller92 » April 4th, 2017, 9:01 am

Also where the cheap bars were, so the story goes.

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

Postby kirby96 » April 4th, 2017, 9:05 am

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.


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