@mnolangray It’s my understanding that anchor tenants in shopping malls often paid very little rent in terms of $ per square foot compared to smaller tenants because mall owners were so eager to attract anchor tenants.
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Eoin 🚲🚃🚌🏘
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Eoin 🚲🚃🚌🏘
@EoinRoux
Interested in local urbanism and soccer. Twin Cities.
Katılım Şubat 2021
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The main reason for the dead mall phenomenon, which is overstated, is that the OG anchor tenants (Sears, JCPenny, etc) cowed owners into agreeing to give up veto power over every aspect of management; a huge headache when they all went bankrupt due to vanilla market trends.
Elizabeth Warren@SenWarren
How private equity gutted local malls: Joann Fabrics, Red Lobster, Claire's, and more.
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@Johnerandom_ @WallStreetApes The address is about 1301 E 21st St MPLS 55404. The construction workers are probably working on affordable housing apartments built by the Native American community. The area has been hit very hard by the fentanyl crisis and is known for high crime and homelessness.
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@WallStreetApes QUESTIONS:
Not one alarm went off?
No one looked out the window and recorded anything on their phone?
Where was this?
Will there be a followup video of the owners returning to their cars and the reactions?
What do the police have to say?
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You won’t see this reported in the media
American shows the Minnesota ICE rioters broke into everyone’s vehicles
He walks and shows over 60 vehicles had their windows broken into by rioters in Downtown Minneapolis
“They broke into everybody — Every single f*cking window. Are you f*cking kidding me?•
“60 Windows Broken”
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@the_transit_guy It was nice reading this article! I would add that the level of service restored was limited by needing to negotiate trip times with the track owners, BNSF. For several years service was limited due to withdrawn funding from counties who previously committed to operations funding
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With the Northstar Commuter Rail service ending, I give my thoughts as to why this service was always doomed to fail. thetransitguy.substack.com/p/why-the-nort…
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@MZannettis @2024dion Hollowed Ground - Copper Mining and Community Building on Lake Superior, 1840s-1990s by Larry D. Lankton
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In fact, new towns don't emerge in the US at all anymore. Contemporary economic geography pushes against settlement permanentization even when far-out rural areas attract the kind of economic activity that once would have created towns (mining, energy infrastructure, etc).
Dion@2024dion
The real 'we can't, we don't know how' situation in the built environment is small town main streets. One day in the 50s or so we stopped building them and there will never be a new one again.
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@2024dion White Pine was designed by a planning firm from Chicago that used the latest in 1950s housing preferences. It has single family homes but it also had apartment buildings and trailer homes to appeal to different housing needs. There is Street View imagery if you want to explore!
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@2024dion The book is named “Hollowed Ground”. Copper mines in the UP used to build towns with the idea that workers with families would be more attached to the community and less likely to move elsewhere. Many workers carpooled but commuting for 90 minutes in the UP in winter is not easy!
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Amazing, this might be the last new town ever built in the US. It’s 13 miles from the nearest small town, has 400 residents and all the normal small town civic infrastructure (too late for a Main Street though), and, as Eoin points out, is underdeveloped relative to its streets and lots.
The old way of settling America died here, by a copper mine in the upper peninsula of Michigan.
Eoin 🚲🚃🚌🏘@EoinRoux
@2024dion In a book about the history of copper mining in the UP, I learned in the 1950s a new mine opened and the company tried to build a town nearby to attract workers. The town did not grow as expected because workers would rather drive 90 minutes than move from where they lived.
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13 years later, I still think the old Met Council logo was better. The seven sailboats/triangles for the seven counties was such satisfying symbology.
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@MaplehoodUnited Not anytime soon. MnDOT had engineered plans in 2017 but have quietly removed the plans from their website. Streets MN has articles about it.
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Anyone know if Snelling from Pierce Butler to Como is going to be redone anytime soon?
Walked to the Fair from the Park & Ride at Energy Park on this narrow sidewalk and it left much to be desired.
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@depeterson61 @MaplehoodUnited Here is a blank map and another map that includes major water features.
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@EoinRoux @MaplehoodUnited do you have a blank map you wouldn’t mind sharing? this is brilliant.
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After the Strib published the municipal fragmentation article, a reader wrote in with this proposal. I wanted to see it visually. These would be the 3rd and 4th largest cities in the metro. @MaplehoodUnited
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@MaplehoodUnited I used ArcGIS, Snipping Tool, MS Paint, Excel, and population data from Wikipedia. GIS is probably overkill. You could make something similar by using the paintbucket tool to fill in cities with the same color on a blank map.
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@EoinRoux This is fantastic- what tool did you use? I would love to play with it! There is so much opportunity for consolidation in the Twin Cities!
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@Komrad_Iron I’ve always wondered if shutting down I-94 for Rondo Days was ever considered.
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@mattyglesias I never heard anyone say $1 billion. They said "almost $1 billion". Then they stated $830,000 was spent. Do you dispute this? Please provide evidence.
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@MaplehoodUnited If Blaine and Lexington were combined, we wouldn’t get weird lawsuits that waste taxpayers money like this.
startribune.com/blaine-lexingt…
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Unrelated Take: Lexington, MN should be part of Blaine-
it was established during the 1950 bonanza of easy cityhood and its first mayor was weirdly obsessed with Revolutionary War and Battle of Lexington- establishing the 'Paul Revere Mobile Home Park' and patriotic streets.
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Minneapolis edition.
Jerome Alexander Horne@jahorne
This one @mtamaryland bus is probably carrying the same amount of people as all of visible cars in this photo. Approximately 75% of vehicle trips in the United States are considered single-occupancy vehicles. Meaning a driver alone in the car. In dense cities, it's all about maximizing the efficiency of physical space. Transit does this well by moving more people in less space.
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And it does get congested. Here the two general lanes were so full that cars turning onto the street were struggling to enter Lyndale Ave. There are several other construction projects north and south of here so it will be interesting to see travel patterns after they finish.
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