Back Online
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After a little trouble and switcheroo, this website is back online. Happy New Year to all.
The difficulties of building in historic districts
The Star Tribune printed an excellent article about a large redevelopment project rejected by a historic preservation commission in Minneapolis: "Mill District Towers are Ground Down".
The article describes a seven hour historic preservation meeting in which 4 proposals to build towers along the Mississippi River, in a Historic District (same developer, ranging from 15-27 stories) […]
Photo: Multimodal Transport
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A photo my pops took in Panama. His description claims there are 4,000 containers on the boat. Personally, I've never known a Korb that could count that high.
Congestion Pricing in Minneapolis: The Invisible Hand Pulls a Little Harder
The Star Tribune is reporting that MN Dept. of Transportation is raising the prices on the I-394 High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes: Tolls for I-394 express lanes have risen sharply
The I-394 toll lanes opened in May 2005 to offer commuters an escape from traffic jams in the regular lanes. Commuters pay the toll electronically by […]
The Happy Show @ the Stevens Square Center for the Arts
The Stevens Square Center for the Arts (SSCA) is having an opening reception for its latest exhibition Saturday evening in Minneapolis.
Happy attempts to put the Happy back in the New Year. The show runs from Jan 21-Feb 26th at SSCA and features works by: Tim Traver, Keiko Yagishita, Shelly Rohlf, Allen Brewer, Lynnda Jones, Aaron […]
Chicago Sun Times: Housing for poor often occupied by college students
The Chicago Sun Times has an interesting article on the issue of college students living in subsidized housing - Housing for poor often occupied by college students
It's an interesting article and a topic I've wondered about (can my poor college friends live in subsidized housing?) - they have limited incomes, etc.
It looks like it was […]
Subprime Lending in the News
A number of newspapers have reported on the settlement reached with Ameriquest on subprime lending.
A scan of papers include"
- Mortgage Lender Settles Lawsuit: Ameriquest Will Pay $325 Million (Washington Post)
- Ameriquest to Pay $325 Million in a Settlement Over Lending (NY Times)
- Ameriquest Deal Sets Standard for Loan Marketing (LA Times)
- Lender Accused Of Bait-And-Switch […]
New York City Blogs - Curbed and NYC Bloggers
… there are two NYC blogs that are just addictive
Curbed and Apartment Therapy
… and one of the coolest city blog directories has to be the nyc bloggers site
… and my friend Geo just tuned me into NY Hack
I'm not so big into the whole "blogging" scene, but it is cool to see so much interesting […]
New Market Tax Credits Article in the NY Times
sears building
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Today's NY Times has a very good information article on New Market Tax Credits - Luring Business Developers Into Low-Income Areas
New Market Tax Credits work similarly to Low Income Housing Tax Credits (tax credits are sold to investors and the funds are used as equity) - but New Market Tax Credits […]
Signage in Minneapolis (Photos from Scott McGerik)
Scott McGerik has two really good posts on his site providing some of the more interesting examples of retail signage in the Twin Cities (actually, mostly St. Paul and its suburbs).
Scott's first post
Scott's second post
Nice work Scott!