Rhett Carlson
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Buying concrete boxes in the burbs 9-5; city RE enjoyer 5-9. Serial Google Maps tourist. Skyway Avoidance Society member #170 & the last W2 CRE bro on twitter
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Bravo to whoever bought these Dinkytown apartments in 2020, tastefully rehabbed and popped a 3rd story on to add units
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An Aldi with housing above is probably the biggest policy win a city can hope to achieve
I love shopping like I'm in East Germany in 1959 knowing I'm getting rock bottom prices for groceries
I love Aldi
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When the infill looks like it's been there for 100 years.
Fairview Row is a new development in the Five Points district in Raleigh, NC that features three Colonial and Federal style condo buildings. Designed by Cline Design Associates & developed by Beacon Street Development
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I have your building for the future Prince Museum
@DeRushaJ
Modernism to evoke the Minneapolis Sound and completely vacant.
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I’m live at the world’s only mixed use Kwik Trip AMA
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This is Minneapolis. Sorry, people are going to have to learn to accept it.
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Infill Saturday. 12 units replacing a SFH. Developed by Left Lane Ventures.
Lyn-Lake, Minneapolis 🟦
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2 parking lots turn into 380 homes,
532,000 SF of office,
20,000 SF of retail,
and a 5 star hotel
2015➡️2022
Am I doing this right
@mnolangray
?
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I walked 12 miles around Philly last May and came away thinking one thing: So. Quiet.
Block after continuous block of calm, narrow streets that would be called woonerfs in any other city. Truly unique among cities and the most European walking experience in the US.
This is wrong because this area is probably the most walkable, interconnected area of 500k+ people in the entire country.
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"Minneapolis was the most in-demand city for renters during the first half of 2024 thanks to a strong job market, walkable neighborhoods, a desirable lifestyle and a growing supply of new apartments with modern amenities..."
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Two affordable projects in Minneapolis, three blocks apart. Similar in size and delivered within two months of each other.
👇🏼
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Petition for a Bavarian style Biergarten at Loring Park.
Can you imagine crushing several 0.5L Hefeweizens as the sun sets?
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3 am? Try 10:30 pm on a week night.
This is so spot on, and I’m glad it’s getting attention outside my whiny tweets.
'There just aren't many places left': Why late-night food options have dwindled in Minneapolis
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Brit’s Pub is severely underrated by North Loopers. The original downtown rooftop?
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The North Loop’s newest quasi public-private space, now with people!
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Wow - an apartment I rented in Uptown in 2021 for $1,525/mo is now being offered at $1,265/mo
That's a 17% drop over 2.5 years
There are deals to be had in the most walkable neighborhood in the Midwest outside Chicago
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A traffic stop? In downtown Minneapolis? In 2024? We are so back.
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@Cobylefko
The Molengracht project there really is some next level stuff— the kind of civic boosterism you’d expect 100 years ago in a small town but not today. The Dutch heritage plus a certain window manufacturer definitely help!
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Downtown Mpls streetscapes get a lot of flack, and rightly so.
But take a minute to appreciate promenade-level sidewalk experience that is Washington Ave between Hennepin & Marquette.
Filtered sunlight from the tree canopy nestled by the reflecting pools of the Yamasaki bldg.
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How competitive with driving is Amtrak Midwest?
With the Borealis coming, I wanted to see how it stacks up against the other services.
Results:
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This pocket of 685 new multifamily units at… 46th St (!) has better walkability than anywhere downtown
- midnight grocery store
- 5:45 am-7 pm coffee shop
- midnight fast food
- whole strip mall of convenience stores including 2 am pizza
- 10 pm liquor store
- 24 hour gym
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This post brought to you by all the mixed-use Whole Foods out there, including this one in my neighborhood which takes far too much of my money
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Love how the airport section of the Blue Line is like, Minneapolis can have a little subway, as a treat
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These two 5 over 1s are directly across the street from each other, built 6 years apart, but look vastly different.
A+ location in an A+ submarket
North Loop, Minneapolis
POLL 👇
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I'd like to think this is the developer and his wife in front of the completed project, with their kid taking the pic
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@BillLindeke
I can’t think about it too much because it’ll lead to slight depression. If the stars had aligned back in 2009 we’d be living with a subway and 10 minute travel times from Uptown to downtown today.
@yfreemark
’s graphic always gets me:
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New Google 3D aerials for core Minneapolis-St. Paul just dropped. Let's see what's changed from ~June '21 to ~June '22 👇
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The Nicollet Mall Chipotle is the workhorse of downtown Minneapolis retail
Slinging $9 burritos 10:45am-10:00pm Mon-Sat
…on street level where it can serve workers during the day and residents at night
Seems like the future to me
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I see your new construction mixed use Culver’s and raise you the adaptive reuse mixed use DQ
Chicago has the only mixed use, no-drive thru Culver’s in the world. A thing of beauty
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Current Minneapolis bikeway design standards summed up in one picture
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This is what a $90m conversion of 329,000 sf of office looks like 6 months into construction.
When complete in November of ‘24 it will be 216 residential units, 20% income restricted at 50% AMI.
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New "consider taking the train" section when searching flights in Google. Cool! I genuinely think most people taking short-haul flights don't even realize it's an option.
But these prices would scare people away. I'm seeing $137 round trip vs the $179 one-way shown
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Inject this directly into my veins
Still buzzing from a beautiful weekend at Theo Wirth w/
@usskiteam
I could get used to seeing more international TV coverage of the city. Minneapolis, America’s Winter Sports Capital
(Portlandia-esque intro scene at 0:40)
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What’s the best name to call this section of Minneapolis?
Poll ⬇️
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Pushing downtown Minneapolis to its limits: buy a carton of eggs before 8 am edition
Whole Foods: closed
1st c-store: closed
2nd c-store: open, but where? navigate to skyway. Unavailable, no one cooks eggs in office.
DGX: aw, they took the chain & padlock off the door. Locked.
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Why is the MN State Fairgrounds paved in full curb & gutter and *hot* black asphalt when its primary function is to serve as a fully pedestrianized space?
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Warehouse District station, 11:30 pm, post-
#Wolves
W 🐺🏀
Imagine this platform when GL & BL extensions open
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More rooftop saunas, cold plunges and hot tubs…winter only… the city’s competitive edge. A little snow helps too.
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Nothing like a Saturday morning *packed* Blue Line trip chatting with tourists from Australia and Orlando marveling at the cleanliness of the city and convenience of the transit to boost the civic morale.
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Enjoying the last day of Stone Arch Bridge full-access with seemingly every other Minneapolitan
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my picks for downtown office-residential conversions
- all pre-war buildings with floorplates <15,000 sf
- current office use
- lack of attached parking for all make market-rate apartments a tougher sell, but some could use existing neighboring ramps
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🚨 NEW RENDERINGS 🚨
Sherman's Harmonia project is now Washington Yards & has a new office component:
- 400k SF office marketed by JLL
- 2 residential buildings, one 300-unit market rate & one 150-unit affordable
- Summer '27 anticipated completion
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2 SFHs and a duplex turn into 14 homes in Raleigh, NC
2011➡️2019
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Long live Multifoods
What's a building in your city that everyone thinks is ugly but you secretly like?
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Seeing the city deviate from the approved layout to save these trees makes me wonder what other changes will be made to preserve trees. Saving trees is good! Plus the boulevard separation >>> tactile strips
Took the fam and Oma’s dog to Uptown to try out the new Hennepin bikeway and look at the reconstruction progress over some $2 ice cream cones
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END OF AN ERA, Puch road bike-turned Dutch bike, 2021-2023
My daily driver was stolen during the work day on Monday 3/27
Here we are during happier times…
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A waterfront parking lot becomes
806 apartments
& 47 for-sale rowhouses
Strip District, Pittsburgh
2013➡️2019➡️2022
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This area has been and will be crushing it for some time to come.
This area is going to be crushing it for some time to come.
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Infill Saturday. 4 plex to 6 plex pop ⬆️
Plus added rooftop deck & neighboring Accessory Dwelling Sauna
South Minneapolis
I’ve never seen anyone invest in a standard Twin Cities 4 plex like this but I love it.
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I see paver usage in a city with a climate about as close to Minneapolis as it gets. We have no excuse
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POV you are standing in your ~unfinished $9M Four Seasons penthouse condo
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Way too close for comfort. Guys, this is a FULL BRICK FACADE, a practical miracle in the game, vs a 6-color facade, children’s color by number, design-by-excel, composite and aluminum patchwork.
Some more glamour shots:
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The downtown Mpls vernacular (now daylit at 7 pm—great for grilling)
- gerbil tube
- 80s office building that can’t be converted
- 3-lane one-way urban highway
- crumbling concrete sidewalk
- car going 40 mph
- curb cuts for days
- grayscale
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Unpopular opinion but I like the updated layout of the new Bryant Ave better than the original.
The new bikeway builds have been putting bikes and peds at the same grade, too close for comfort.
The shifting of the blvd between the sidewalk and bikeway eliminates the conflict.
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I see a similar underutilized colonnade on a river
Imagine the post office parkway frontage activated–
Glass in the space for a coffee shop, bringing light & activity in winter
Tables & umbrellas on top in summer, people enjoying drinks with an elevated view of the river
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crowdsourced map of street level lunch spots—all 14 of them—for any members of the Skyway Avoidance Society or those who'd just like to patronize these noble businesses on the 1st floor in downtown
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Pics from last week’s tour of North Loop Green
The 18th floor amenity level has sweeping views of downtown and looks right in to Target Field
I want to live here! Even with the VE’ed suede composite paneling…
Coming online in time for next year’s Twins season
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That pin you see? That’s Mall of America, the largest building in the city at 4.3 MSF. It’s also city hall.
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Approximately a year of change at Highland Bridge
The big multifamily components are complete, and now just rowhouse construction is inching forward. Still *a lot* of land.
Updated aerials for St. Paul (& weirdly only St. Paul) are out, and HB is most of the action in the city
Highland Bridge streets and water feature mostly complete; medical office, senior living, apartments, and rowhouses under construction.
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A lot to be excited about with the 17 North Washington project, presented to the DMNA tonight.
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RBC Gateway grew tired of waiting for their allotment of Mpls Standard Issue Landscaping Treatment™️ so they added their own and oh does it look so good in comparison. Yes, I’m praising wood chips in a major American city’s downtown.
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Miami in Minneapolis
Nordhaus — Lennar Multifamily, 2018
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I could see this coming. The Minnesota-washing knows no bounds.
Name another city that has removed its *own namesake* from its institutions as persistently and at as grand a scale as Minneapolis.
Where is the pride in city
@StarTribune
?
Long live the Minneapolis Star Tribune
The new name / rebrand of the
@StarTribune
is The Minnesota Star Tribune
They will celebrate on Mon.
expect the mascot will be at
@mnstatefair
- it's a gray duck.
New typeface of the brand lines up with the StribVoices tease yesterday
Hoping to have a pic in
@lunchtakemn
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Excited to watch NLG challenge the exurban brain for the next 6 months
Twins cant be happy about this monstrosity going up.
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Love what the developer did here - "lets take what worked 100 years ago next door and build it in the 21st century". NIMBYs hate this one weird trick to build more housing in the neighborhood.
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These concrete ribbons looming over a new park and taking up valuable North Loop real estate for less than 15,000 vehicles/day is dumb.
Come hear U of M students present their vision for the future of the 4th Street viaduct tomorrow:
A new development across from Target Field will host more than 100 public events in its 1-acre green space this summer, including concerts, markets, fitness classes, and movie screenings.
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This is a completely normal way to talk about the city-suburb relationship in a metro area and it should be encouraged. Especially for name recognition-challenged Minneapolis.
New guy at my job said he’s from Minnesota, so I asked where in Minnesota.
He said Minneapolis, so I said me too. I asked where in Minneapolis.
He looked me dead in the face and said Stillwater
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Fare checked on the Blue Line, security workers at Lake and Franklin, a clean and fast ride from the airport. Always a nice way to be welcomed home!
@MetroTransitMN
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It’s reflecting pool SZN
Would be great to get these fired up before the 4th of July
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@2024dion
So true. Without knowing much about the dynamics, it seems like Cincinnati and Louisville might skirt this rule
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On my early Friday airport Blue Line ride I saw
People openly smoking crack at
Franklin, Lake St, 46th
Doors held/operator announced at US Bank, Lake St, 46th
No security spotted & wasn’t fare checked
When is that updated security plan coming,
@MetroTransitMN
?
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Entry for first intersection in the city to get speed/red light cameras:
Poll 👇
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I was today years old when I found out that the Merriam Street Bridge has not always been a fixture of Nicollet Island but was in fact moved there in 1987.
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Scenes from a lively, lush Nicollet Mall at the torchlight parade of the 78th annual
#Aquatennial
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A local success story in affordable owner-occupied multifamily development: the long vacant 6-plex on E Franklin is now 7 for-sale condos targeted at 60% AMI
Developed by City of Lakes Community Land Trust and HOPE Community
Top takeaway from
#PPLBreakfast
Ownership is key.
How do we turn the ship on owner-occupied multifamily?
Co-op model?
Whether market rate or affordable, I think there will be increasing pressure on MF developers in the next decade.
@PPLTwinCities
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Signs are up at Hennepin & Washington!
(but wish they said 𝒲𝒶𝓁𝑔𝓇𝑒𝑒𝓃𝓈 OPEN 24 HRS)
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Upon further inspection, you can click into the train searcher and toggle dates to get correct one-way prices
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Single-stair discourse going mainstream in '24 w/ quotes from
@Net0Builder
&
@holz_bau
👏
Ramstad: Minnesota should allow taller buildings with single staircase
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Whoever is behind Puralima in North Loop I want to personally shake your hand. Chipotle product and price point with great hours (10 pm Sun-Thurs, 12 am Fri/Sat). Plus $8 margs. More of this!
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It’s fairly obvious, but it’s crazy the degree to which transit is *always* an option living downtown
Dinner in Linden Hills? Bus there, Uber back
Brewery in NE? Bus there & back
Living at the nexus & having a 1-seat ride to anywhere in the city is a game changer
Uber bill📉
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Just walked 0.5 mi to get groceries
I could have driven, but I chose to walk
It’s sad that 90% of Americans literally *could not have* walked due to our land use policies
Density enables
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One of those shots that shows how barren much of DT was just ~20 yrs ago
Yes, Nicollet Mall was nicer & there were dept. stores. But walk just a block off the skyway-core and you are in no man’s land
There are now “villages” of DT—North Loop & Mill District the most successful
What a bizarre, petty grievance. Imagine finding yourself standing in the middle of a bike lane trying to totally own cyclists. Btw this is what downtown MPLS looked like when the city was more focused on cars than people. If you like dense walkable cities get used to bike lanes
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The Twin Cities' most likely highway removal? Probably the Fourth Street viaducts in the North Loop.
I recapped U of M grad students' ideas for the future of the area presented at a design charrette on May 9th.
@DowntownVoices_
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Underrated missing middle-scale density in Cedar-Riverside in the form of row houses. High quality materials (brick & concrete), traditional design, front porches, and hidden parking.
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The life & death & life & death of Great American Street Trees
A decade-long saga at 111 Washington Square
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Old Town/CenHen/downtown NE/St. Anthony Main finally has a proper coffee shop.
Frgmnt opened a location in Riverplace (43 SE Main St)
Patio will open in spring and I was told a new distillery will share it.
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So... what's the latest on the food pavilion and water plaza/ice skating at the Commons?
Can the park dedication fee from Ryan's 4th & Park project help push it along?
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