Building Boom on Minneapolis – St. Louis Park Border Exactly how big is the construction crane at the new development just southwest of France Ave. and Lake Street? At 250′ (my estimate), it’s so big that it straddles the border between Minneapolis and St. Louis Park (which just so happens to be France Ave.). When...Read More
A Clutch* of (Construction) Cranes If massive construction sites are your thing, it’s hard to do better than the site of the new Vikings stadium at the east end of downtown. At least at this stage, the building looks like the world’s biggest roller coaster taking shape. In fact, there are no fewer than half...Read More
Bird Watching (of a Sort) It’s hardly scientific, but if you want a quick-and-dirty, statistics-free take on the Twin Cities real estate market, do what I did over the weekend: count construction cranes. Including Downtown Minneapolis, Uptown, and Lake Calhoun (what’s going on at the Calhoun Beach Club??), I counted easily a dozen such multi-story contraptions....Read More
Test your knowledge of local Twin Cities construction projects, and answer the following multiple choice question: What is going on at the northeast corner of Highway 7 and Louisiana Blvd. in St. Louis Park? A. Minnesota’s first site for hydraulic fracturing (also known as “fracking”); B. Prep work for the new Southwest light rail corridor;...Read More
Arizona Travelogue: Recession Catches Up to PhoenixWhat a difference 2 years makes. The last time I visited Phoenix, “the Valley of the Sun,” all you saw were cranes, cranes, cranes. That, despite the fact by February, 2008, real estate was very much on the downside of its record run, and the nation was already in...Read More
