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9 Dec 2012 (by dmd.hashw)
Pracna - 9 Dec 2012 (by dmd.hashw)
Lowry Ave Bridge (by dmd.hashw)
Thank God.
Washburn Center for Children has picked a Glenwood Ave. site in Minneapolis for a new 50,000-square-foot clinic to help treat kids with mental health illnesses.
The next step for the nonprofit is to raise enough money to build the $21 million building. So far, it has raised about $2 million and raised another $8 million to $10 million in pledges, according to The Downtown Journal community newspaper.
Washburn plans to expand on a 2.5-acre site at Glenwood and Dupont avenues near the International Market Square, according to the paper.
One reported dead when truck hits span in Mall of America parking ramp
At least one person was killed Friday night when a small truck struck a concrete span in the parking lot at the Mall of America parking lot, causing the span to collapse, Bloomington police said.
The narrow rectangular span collapsed when it was struck by a U-Haul truck, police said. The span fell on the front of the truck. One person was being extracted from the vehicle at about 9 p.m.
Bloomington police and fire personnel responded to the report from the fourth floor of the parking lot near Nordstrom’s at about 8:30 p.m.
The incident appeared to be an accident and not intentional, police said.
Photo by David Bjorn Olson story update by StarTribune
DSCN7464 (by dmd.hashw)
CIDER (by Reckless Artist)
St. Anthony Main (by dmd.hashw)
St. Paul, circa 1908.
Wheeling the cat tree home (by dmd.hashw)
We bought our cats, LG & Clooney, a cat tree to play in. It wouldn’t fit in my car, so we went to Home Depot and bought a dolly to bring it home.
Home.
Plans to open the intersection of Nicollet and Lake underway | StarTribune
The reopening of Nicollet Avenue at Lake Street is a long way off, but plans are underway to have an agreement written up between Minneapolis and a developer by July 2013.
David Frank, director of transit development, submitted a report to the City Council’s Transportation and Public Works Committee this morning establishing a year-long timeline and boundaries for the long-awaited project.
A decision in the 1970s to allow Kmart to build at Nicollet and Lake has prompted criticism for decades that the blocking of the intersection has broken up the neighborhood and been an urban planning fiasco. Now, the move to reopen Nicollet is gaining momentum as the city studies the possibility of streetcars running through the area and how to increase access to the neighborhood from Interstate 35W.
Today’s report envisions a community engagement process beginning in mid-August, the city appropriating money for project development costs in December, and plans for the developer to have control over the site – which involves various owners and leases - by January. An expanded community engagement process would also unfold next year.
City staff have already reached out to property owners, tenants and developers, and determining the funding needed for the project, according to the report.
Mpls. apartment boom underway | StarTribune.com
Two new towers for the Minneapolis skyline!
• Nicollet Residences, a 330-unit, 33-story apartment building at 5th Street and the Nicollet Mall. Opus Development says construction is expected to begin in October, and finish in mid-2014.
• 1368 Spruce Place, a 354-unit, 36-story apartment complex in Loring Park. Chicago-based developer Magellan Development said construction will begin in late summer of this year and finish in the spring of 2014.
Strong leadership missing from Star Tribune
I don’t understand how the Star Tribune can justify publishing their most recent editorial, Strong Leadership Leads to Stadium Deal.
While it is true that our state and city leaders were the ones who crafted and negotiated what will eventually be a stadium, the process does not suggest “strength” anywhere:
- Strong leaders are willing to make choices for the advantage of their followers, not for the advantage of a few billionaires who don’t really need their help to get something accomplished.
- Strong leaders think of the future as opportunity for the children they lead, not as an unlimited gold-filled purse that some one else can fill.
- Strong leaders do whatever they can to help us all, not knowingly sacrifice a percentage of us with gambling addiction to “get it done.”
- Strong leaders understand priorities and that our love of a game should never have precedence over our ability to educate, house, clothe, feed each other, or go to the doctor.
- Strong leaders seek guidance from their followers, don’t hide from them behind closed doors and talk between offices to ensure they don’t violate pesky transparency rules.
- Strong leaders don’t let their morals and beliefs be hijacked by the wealthy, corporate America, or labor unions.
- Strong leaders don’t push green, just because they want to be able to say “I told you so” in 10 years.
- Strong leaders lead, they don’t follow their caucus when they know it is just wrong.
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