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Minneapolis urbanist, St Paul enthusiast, transit nerd, historian, current and past board chair of various things 🏳️‍🌈

Twin Cities, Mni Sóta

Joined March 2009

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Vince Mpls

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A fantastic effort is underway to merge SE Minneapolis neighborhood orgs into a much better enterprise. The 1st community vote by Nicollet Island/East Bank @niebna was overwhelmingly YES. Next is @SoutheastComo . If you're a SE Como resident, especially a renter or student,

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Southeast Minneapolis | Como Neighborhood

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Don’t be conned by yard signs and door hangers polluting our neighborhood. Honest info about the East Bank Neighborhoods Partnership: Request your ballot through the link above, or scan the QR code below. Voting in Como begins on September 28, 2024

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3 months

March 1933 The Enabling Act becomes law in Germany, giving the chief executive power enforce his own laws without checks and balances. The passing of the Act marked the formal transition from democratic republic to totalitarian dictatorship. 6 months later, it was a 1 party state

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Sign in front of the Minnesota governor's residence just now. Congratulations @Tim_Walz

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Overheard two Minnesota moms at a St Paul grocery store: Oh this whole governor thing is kinda fun isn't it?

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The Twin Cities Rapid Transit system once carried 238 million passengers per year over 523 miles of track.

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looking at old transit networks or planned transit expansions in american cities is a form of self harm

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Visiting one of the great icons of St Paul

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Just like Laura I too just biked through the liberal wasteland, this time in the deepest scariest part of the inner city. Hard to navigate because everything was on fire.

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Liberal wasteland, indeed.

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In less than 24 hours the Stone Arch Bridge will close for 2 years of restoration. Among the greatest engineering achievements of the 19th century, the story of how it came to be is as big as the structure itself. A SAB #history mega thread! 🧵

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Don't let people tell you seniors aren't progressive. Episcopal Home residents are out today on University Avenue urging people to vote blue.

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Good Morning from Prospect Park, Minneapolis

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7 months

Sometimes when emergency vehicles pass over the Franklin Avenue Bridge or East River Road the coyotes down in the Mississippi River gorge sing. I've never been able to capture it before, tonight they were in full voice.

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100 years ago the Twin Cities were among the top railway centers in the US. Today the only passenger stations are NorthStar commuter in Minneapolis and @Amtrak at St Paul @UnionDepot . Let's visit all the lost train stations, starting with downtown Minneapolis. There were many! 🧵

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@avocadoplex @mateosfo Yea I'm sorta learning about muting etc 🤣

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8 months

Lots of excitement about this post today. The Selby Avenue Tunnel is a fascinating part of the much celebrated and mourned former Twin Cities Rapid Transit system. Let's tunnel into history🧵

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On this day in 1919, Zeppelin LZ210 "Bodensee" moored atop the Witch's Hat Water Tower to the delight of the assembled citizens of Minneapolis. It was the first and only time the tower was used for its originally designed purpose as a docking station for airships.

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3 months

History snippet: The very first Twin Cities Pride events guide from 1973 was no more than a small flier. In a detail that's hard to imagine today, it was designed so that a holder could quickly fold and discard it in the event of a police raid.

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@alanthefisher Those reasons and if we spent just 1% of the Freeway budget on rail we'd have transportation worthy of a first world nation. Instead we have what we have.

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The Genghis Khan Equestrian Statue is coming to kill you. Choose one (1) other world monument as your champion to defend you

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2 years

@AldiUSA Great idea for an @AldiUSA location: No nearby competitors, 2 busy roads, ample parking, transit station, and... hear me out... already built. Do the right thing and reinvest in the North Minneapolis store rather than closing it.

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11 months

The Minneapolis skyway system is so well designed and warmly inviting, it's hard to understand why it doesn't attract more people.

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6 months

In honor of today's late Winter Storm, behold the Weatherball, a postwar icon and pre-internet pioneer of modern weather reporting. A 🧵

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10 months

This should be done to every 4-lane county road inside Minneapolis and St Paul, and any of the streetcar suburbs like Hopkins and St Louis Park

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Lancaster, CA transformed its downtown in just 8 months by redesigning it's main street from a mini-highway to a tree-lined boulevard. For the cost of just $11.5M, the project has generated $273M in economic output since 2010, creating 800 jobs, and nearly doubling tax revenue!

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Minneapolis, the city of bridges 1886.

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Uptown in 1986, before the commercial real estate speculators.

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@sdho I feel like people forgot what Uptown was like prior to 2010

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"downtown Minneapolis is dead"

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Went downtown Minneapolis last night to meet someone for dinner- Friday night, Big 10 tournament going on, nice weather. It was DEAD.

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8 months

Minneapolis at midnight in mid-January. 35 degrees, the skyline shrouded in fog, and the river fully thawed

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9 months

I also endorse this Holy Roman Empire inspired flag, but implore my imperialist friends to reserve this for the day we conquer Wisconsin.

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Arrowed! Ow my context! 🥥 🌴🦃

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@larryn1966 Imperial conquests raise this flag

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Crime Blotter: shocking evidence found in South St Anthony Park

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5 months

This should be legal to build on any block in Minneapolis, no variances required.

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AUSTIN SINGLE-STAIR APARTMENTS! Austin city council just passed a resolution directing staff to look at single-stair reform as a part of their 2024 building code update! This is a MASSIVE step toward enabling more missing-middle and affordable housing to be built in Austin!

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Yesterday I created a fun little April fools history photo to liven up this place. Many got it, some did not, and a few even chuckled. Sadly a large account not only took my content today but also posted it as if it were real. Do better @BestPixMN , this is not cool.

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In 1919, Zeppelin LZ210 "Bodensee" moored atop the Witch's Hat Water Tower to the delight of the assembled citizens of Minneapolis. It was the first and only time the tower was used for its originally designed purpose as a docking station for airships.

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Sampling all the vibrancy of the Dayton's Project during peak business hours.

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The St Paul Athletic Club is one of the great jewels of the city's 1920s boomtime. It's had a difficult ride since the pandemic, but that doesn't detract from its grandeur. Time for another quick history 🧵!

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The St. Paul Athletic Club, built in 1914 at a cost of $1 million, can currently be bought at auction with starting bid of $750,000 This is a market in severe distress

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After disappearing from TV after shooting her own puppy, Kristi is back in a desperate plea for relevance with a new pack of lies. Minnesota's GDP is $483M, SD's is only $68M, and we're even better off per capita. You're a wreck Kristi, go work on your state and leave us alone

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Minnesotans are coming to South Dakota by the thousands because Tim Walz pushes mandates on his people. He believes in socialist, communist policies. You don’t go to China 30 times just to be a tourist. He’s funneled money to Chinese Communist Party-affiliated companies and

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Don Samuels now says he supports @IlhanMN 's bill to limit no-knock warrants, so you can either have a guy who steals her homework or the real deal who actually wrote the bill. Up to you. h/t @KedricKillian

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2 years

local business putting up a Don Samuels sign makes it ever so convenient to know never step foot in there

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Another great bit by Soup, but there really was a bridge exactly at this spot. Two in fact. Though not obvious today, this was one of the first crossings on the entire length of Mississippi River. Another bridge thread! This time obscure! 🧵

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It's criminal that we demolished the Stone Arch Bridge.

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As @jedhanson points out, Bridge 9 is a sleeper hit. It has everything: great ped/bike connection, dramatic river views, rare design, a big role in @UMNews history, even a lost city underneath. All that juice calls for yet another bridge thread!🧵

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6 months

As much as I want to gatekeep this, want to call attention to another fantastic ped/bike bridge with (superior) Mississippi views during the Stone Arch closure: the Northern Pacific No. 9 Bridge just about a half mile south.

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There's a significant history to this little bridge 🧵

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1 year

I guess I don't keep a close enough tab on the doings in SW Mpls, what fresh hell is this?

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@NortonMpls Most people don't realize the massive extent of what was lost when the Twin Cities lines were torn up. 543 miles of track and a city charter requiring a line within 400 yards of every resident, rich or poor, black or white. In 1924 268 million passengers rode the system a year.

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Tonight's free light rail ride had sad Vikings fans, a meth couple fighting over a lighter, and religious fundamentalists handing out flyers. Thanks to everyone who made this possible

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One of the worst buildings ever built in Minneapolis now stands where one of the great landmarks was lost during urban renewal in 1962. Long past time to tear down 330 S 2nd and put up something worthwhile.

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An eight-story office building at 330 S. Second Ave. sold for $7.3 million at auction in late 2023, compared to $20 million in March 2018.

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Minneapolis 12:30am. T minus 4.5 hours to bridge closure

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11 months

After 3 years of reconstruction, the long-awaited reopening of the Third Avenue bridge to traffic arrived at 5PM last night. Let's do a deeper dive into this unique structure🧵

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St. Paul's Summit Avenue in the 1880s. If historic preservationists really believed in the place, they'd support cutting down the trees and returning the road surface to mud.

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What's funny about obvious troll posts like this is a complete lack of historic understanding. Before the Panama Canal opened in 1914, Duluth was the busiest port in the nation. And during WW2 70% of the iron needed to build American ships came from where? Minnesota. By ship.

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The Midwest states are landlocked, end of discussion, cope and seethe in your continental interior.

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11 months

If you want to see some of the worst land use and transportation policy in the nation, look no further than Blaine, Minnesota. The only word he gets right is "insane"

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I think @BlaineMN is excited about the new @ChickfilA ! That line is insane!

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Minneapolis did mostly bad things in its 60s "urban renewal" schemes, but the big bright spot was Nicollet Mall. Integral to the innovative design were 2 world-class pieces of public art: Calder's "The Spinner" and Nelson's "Sculpture Clock". Today let's visit the Clock 🧵

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i see the nicollet mall clock is joining the ranks of the target escalator in things that will permanently stay broken downtown because we hate ourselves

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Minneapolis was built “from scratch” in a grid laid out for railways and streetcars more than 40 years before the first automobile ever appeared here.

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Culdesac, AZ, is the First Car-free City Built from Scratch - #GoogleAlerts

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11 months

Trader Joe's Sunday 3:45pm... looks like Downtown Minneapolis is dead

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5 months

What a difference a few hours make. The Canadian wildfire smoke has arrived

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10 months

The new MN state flag has really grown on me. Three small tweaks will make it perfect: 1) Rotate the star into the M configuration of the capitol rotunda floor per @VThorstenson 2) Rearrange the stripes to mimic a Field/Snow/Sky 3) Brighten up the colors so @whstancil isn't SAD

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10 months

With no bright colors it really just feels like Seasonal Affective Disorder, the flag. Totally dispiriting

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9 months

This is pretty nice. I'm OK with this. It also says "nice but cold", which should be our state motto

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9 months

NEW: The State Emblems Redesign Commission just adopted this as Minnesota's new state flag.

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8 months

E Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis 12:03am

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10 months

University of Minnesota's Walter Library at 12:02am. Built between 1922-24, it's one of the last grand Beaux-Arts buildings erected in Minnesota. 225 owls are engraved throughout the library.

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1 year

The 1st Nicollet Mall was a graceful modernist masterpiece. The current version is a concrete corporate dystopia. We keep designing these new terrible places and surprise! no one wants to go there. Removing buses won't fix what's fundamentally wrong.

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Transit on Nicollet, Marquette and 2nd Avenue was a cold mess before 2009 with local and express buses mixed together, causing serious bus congestion and very slow speeds. Then we won a $34 million federal grant to build the MARQ2 project.

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The State and Orpheum Theaters may be lovely, but by far the best was The Minnesota, which once stood at the corner of LaSalle and 9th in downtown Minneapolis. When opened in 1928, it was the 5th largest and one of the finest in the nation. A history 🧵

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The historic State Theater on Hennepin Avenue in downtown Minneapolis. What's the most beautiful theater in town?

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8 months

This is the site of the lost Metropolitan Building, Minneapolis' first skyscraper. One of the most impressive and dizzyingly exuberant interiors of any multi-story commercial block built in the late 19th century, the Met was destroyed in 1961 during "urban renewal"

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Another Class B office property in Minneapolis coming up for auction. This could be a candidate to be demo’d.

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@alanthefisher It's everywhere. Here in Mpls near the Uof M campus is a lovely middle eastern restaurant. The owners freaked out when a giant apartment building full of 1000s of students got built next door, costing them 5 parking spaces. 10 years later and they're more successful than ever

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10 months

BREAKING: the long vacant Perkins at the I94 Riverside exit in Seward is gone

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@lady_o_gaga @Tim_Walz It's owned by the University of Minnesota, so he probably needs to bring lemonade to Board of Regents to get it done

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The lack of signal preemption on the Green Line in St Paul is so unbelievably stupid. A platform full of gophers have been watching this train sit there for over 3 minutes while the overhead sign says "due". More like overdue

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10 months

Name a more iconic duo

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Name a more iconic duo, I’ll wait.

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I actually like the Gehry building, but maybe because it stands out among a litany of nearby bad buildings. More than once the University of Minnesota has been ranked among the ugliest campuses in the US.

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Just saw my first cybercuck in the wild. It reminds me of the Weissman art museum. Which is, without a doubt, the ugliest building I’ve seen anywhere in the world.

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If you're in that line for donuts stretching as far back as the Newspaper Museum, you can stop in and see one of my favorite things at the Minnesota State Fair, the Linotype machine.

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Rachel Brougham

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The line for Peachey’s donuts at the Minnesota State Fair is backed up to the Newspaper Museum. 😵‍💫

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2 years

The Dayton's Project xmas market is a retail disaster that exudes dead suburban mall charm at 10x the price.

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7 months

Finally!! I was beginning to feel left out from y'all

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1 year

BREAKING: Barbiemania has hit Longfellow hard

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6 months

Yet another conservative trying to own the libs but instead looking foolish. These kiosks have been at MSP Airport, which is not in the city of Minneapolis, since 2017. Is this the kind of obvious nonsense that passes for journalism @USAToday ?

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This is the McDonald’s at the Minneapolis airport. This is what happens when the min wage is too high. Liberals think they are helping people, but they’re not.

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I'm at the Minneapolis DFL Senior Caucus. Andrea Jenkins is the keynote and has so far spent the entire time complaining about her colleagues, her office space, the temperature in the room. Nothing positive at all, nothing substantive at all.

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Minneapolis summer evening

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I'm surprised a French person is unaware that the whole reason Minnesota is the northernmost lower 48 state is because of the 1783 Treaty of Paris. We are not giving that to Canada. L'Étoile du Nord!

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I always felt like US states borders were a bit off so I tried to fix them Unfortunately I could only find a way to change counties so it's not perfect, but I think it's a massive improvement over the current map

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7 months

History snippet: Bustling 3rd and Central in the great river city of Winona, Minnesota, 1918. No resident lived more than a few blocks from a streetcar stop.

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3 years

Local street gang enforcing the speed limit this morning

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1 year

St Paul's Summit Avenue, 1902. Before it was widened for cars, there was plenty of room for dedicated bike lanes separated from the street. Make Summit Great Again and get rid of the parking.

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9 months

54 degrees on Christmas Day in Minneapolis. Astonishing.

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6 months

@BestPixMN Hey @BestPixMN this is a photo and post I created especially for April 1. You should have not only credited me but also realized it was not real.

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9 months

The great city awaits the coming snow storm. You can hear ice forming on the river.

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3 months

Today's history tidbit: June 1931, the brand new First National Bank, St Paul, Minnesota. A classic art deco confection by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White and tallest building in the city until 1986. The world's first skyway is visible on the 16th floor.

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7 months

Same photo, different day, different vernacular. The 1898 Metropolitan Building once stood exactly where that 1980 unconvertable office building is today.

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Rhett Carlson

7 months

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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2 years

Minneapolis 8:49pm

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On this day in 1938: The redesigned Twin Cities Hiawatha, newly equipped with Class F7 "Baltic" engines streamlined by industrial designer Otto Kuhler, began service to Chicago. It was the fastest scheduled passenger train in the world - time between downtowns: 6.25 hrs.

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Vince Mpls

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Hi @SenTinaSmith . The 1910 Rapidan Dam no longer generates power after being damaged repeatedly by high water, notably in 2020, 2019, 2010, 2002. It's long overdue to be removed and replaced with the natural rapids that were once there, as was done on the Willow River.

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Senator Tina Smith

3 months

The news out of Mankato is devastating. Dam failures can be catastrophic. You have my word: I’ll do everything I can to make sure that the federal government is a good partner with the state to help Minnesotans recover from this.

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Vince Mpls

10 months

I just stopped by the Dayton's Project signature food hall curated by celebrity chef Andrew Zimmern. It definitely has a unique vibe and the sandwiches are second to none.

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Pumpkin Soup for my Family 🥣🧦🤖🎃🍁🍂

10 months

The Daytons Project Signature Food Hall curated by celebrity chief Andrew Zimmern has approximately 20 vendors, some of which are rotating options. This has been my go to for lunch, dinner and drinks ever since it opened in 2019.

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Vince Mpls

1 year

This @uhaul self storage facility going up next to a Metro transit line must be the stupidest land use this city has going on right now

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Vince Mpls

7 months

The Great Northern Railway Station, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Opened 1914, demolished 1978.

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7 months

Apparently, everyone has a favorite building. Spill it, peeps.

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Vince Mpls

1 year

Behold Hennepin County Road 36, better known as University Avenue, top candidate for the most stupidly overbuilt and pedestrian unfriendly car sewer in the city of Minneapolis

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Vince Mpls

4 years

Prospect Park News: the "inner city" crime wave continues as vandalism now spreads to federal government property

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Vince Mpls

5 months

Cloud City

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Vince Mpls

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Sorry Minneapolis, St Paul does residential setbacks better than you do. Some is better than none, and some is way better than too much. And for both of you, this type of zoning should be city-wide.

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Vince Mpls

4 months

Good analysis by @nickhaltermpls @axios . St Paul's downtown was destroyed by I-94 and trapped in dependency on State Gov't office leases to stay alive ever since. That 1970s model was never sustainable and radical change is needed

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Downtown St. Paul's office market situation is more dire situation than previously known

If state agencies leave, the problem could get worse.

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Vince Mpls

7 months

I'm at the DFL Senior Caucus meeting. The first 20 minutes have been consumed with worries about people who don't belong here.

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Vince Mpls

10 months

Inspired by @daviss I took a quick look at the demo today. The story of this structure is more complex 🧵

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Daniel Feldman

10 months

Why are big companies allowed to just abandon huge industrial buildings in Minneapolis and leave them to rot for decades? There are so many of these....

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Vince Mpls

3 months

Mní Sota Territory depicted in the 1857 Atlas of the United States. County lines in red, survey lines for the proposed Pacific Railway in purple. Map by HD Rogers, London, & AK Johnston @RoyalSocEd via Borchert Map Library @UMNews

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Vince Mpls

3 months

These adventures with @TwoPucketts and Nanna are wonderful. Here they're at Robert Street Bridge, a handsome jazz-age Moderne structure and one of the most visually striking in Minnesota. Construction began exactly 100 years ago, so time for another bridge 🧵!

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MrPuckett

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Taking my 18 year old blind dog to every bridge in Minnesota so she can feel the breeze on her face #10 - Robert St Bridge in St Paul 🧵

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Vince Mpls

9 months

St Paul's Summit Avenue in 1902 before it was widened for cars. There was plenty of room for trees and dedicated bike lanes. Make Summit Great Again by getting rid of the parking and disease-ridden ash trees from the 1960s, none of which are historic.

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Frederick Melo, Reporter/Axolotl

9 months

Opponents of St. Paul’s planned Summit Avenue bikeway have waged legal battles on two fronts. Here’s the latest in the Minnesota Court of Appeals case: #stpaul

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Vince Mpls

1 year

@MplsParkBoard 7/8 As @WedgeLive and others reported, Bryant Ave reconstruction exposed the old streetcar track after 69 years, briefly reminding us of a lost world when 250 million riders a year had access to cheap, efficient, and frequent transit in our fair cities

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Vince Mpls

8 months

So yea great the thieves are finally being caught, but what about the buyers? When a sketchy dude pulls up to metal recycling outfits with coils of wire stamped "City of St Paul", and they accept that, then why aren't they being charged?

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Frederick Melo, Reporter/Axolotl

8 months

They charged a suspected copper wire thief allegedly caught in the act in St. Paul. And then another. And then another. And another. And another. And another. And another. And an eighth. And here they are: Story by @NFerraroPiPress

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Vince Mpls

9 months

This display on the Skyway should be designated an historic artifact

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Vince Mpls

5 months

The Minneapolis Senior DFL Caucus has decided to NOT endorse/recommend Don Samuels or Ilhan Omar. This is an accomplishment for the left. The old guard is big mad and not happy with us new folks.

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Vince Mpls

8 months

@bornwithatail_ St Paul before the freeways was peak European vibe. Here it's gloriously depicted on a 1905 German postcard, looking a lot like Munich, Prague, or Bratislava

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Vince Mpls

8 months

The Stone Arch Bridge looks particularly lovely in summer

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haley

8 months

The Stone Arch Bridge looks beautiful on this poster.

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