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Winner announced in Minneapolis Riverfront Design Competition | Downtown Journal
TLS/KVA, a design coalition led by California-based Tom Leader Studio and Maryland-based Kennedy & Violich Architecture, has beat out 54 teams from around the globe to win the Minneapolis Riverfront Design Competition. Their prize? A commission for an ambitious park project, covering 5.5 miles of Minneapolis riverfront, expected to be the crown jewel of the Minneapolis park system and an economic driver for neighborhoods bordering the Mississippi, especially in North and Northeast Minneapolis.
Congratulations to the TVS/KVA team. You can view their proposal here. I think they had one of the more interesting and realistic designs. I’m glad that their plan was chosen.
Parkway's historical wooden planks soon will be history | Star Tribune
The plank road at Mills Ruins Park on the Minneapolis riverfront, which has bedeviled drivers and adjacent residents, is finally going to be replaced — at a cost of nearly $190,000.
Work is set to begin this month on pulling up the oak planks that were intended to reflect the district’s history but ended up being a headache for the Park Board. Completion is scheduled for October.
Safety, maintenance costs and noise — in that order — did in the road, said Dawn Sommers, a Park Board spokeswoman.
The planks are on part of West River Parkway that follows much of the length of a now-filled canal that powered the city’s early flour and other mills.
The wooden road segment was installed in 2003. Cars slid on the planks when they were wet or frost-coated. The lag bolts screwed into pine beneath the oak worked themselves loose repeatedly. And the noise of vehicles rumbling along the boards bothered residents of adjacent condos, especially when the boards worked loose.
It’s too bad that there isn’t an alternative to the total removal of the planks. I think they added a lot of character to that stretch of the West River Parkway. The complaints are all valid though. I’ve lost many Segways over there because of how slick the planks would get in the rain.
Above is the Southeast Steamplant, which was built in 1903 to provide electricity for the Twin City Rapid Transit system, which it did for nearly 50 years until the trolley system’s eventual closure on June 19th, 1954. A real pity, as we are now spending billions to put a similar system in place in the Twin Cities.
Now the steamplant is used to heat and cools the vast majority of the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus. It also provides approximately 20% of the campus’ electrical needs.
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The I-35W Saint Anthony Falls Bridge is the replacement for Bridge 9340 - the bridge that collapsed on August 1, 2007.
The current bridge opened on September 18th, 2008. It is 1,216’ long and approximately 120’ tall. The bridge was designed to be light-rail ready by the request of Twin Cities residents, R.T Rybak & Tim Pawlenty.
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Man's body pulled from Mississippi River after he jumps from bridge | StarTribune.com
I saw this happen. The officer stripped down to his underclothes and swam out with a rope to get the body. Scary stuff.
