Minnesota/Minnesotans C or D

what about the Calhoun Beach Club

Washington Ave. north of the Vu is sure surreal to someone who grew up here. Walked it for the first time tonight, having moved away almost 20 years ago. Very much a similar feeling to walking through a neighborhood of mansions, thinking "Who are all these people? How do they afford it?"

i lol'd

http://citypages.com/news/uptown-is-dead-while-i-am-as-interesting-as-ever/421531984

"The Data Are Clear"

this is beautiful

lol

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/us/satanic-temple-sponsors-a-veterans-memorial-in-a-minnesota-town.html

more like Lucien Greaves Me Greatly

haha that final sentence! Minnesota, ladies and gentlemen

"Well, that's different!"

Treehouse Records closing :(

i mourn it as a landmark and a place that meant a lot to me at a certain time though i had personally been banned from there and have many many issues w/said proprietor

BANNED?

i only had good times there but am a newcomer to the area so idk. saw lots of good inhouse shows, met some nice people and got cool records there

also he's absolutely closing it to rent the location out to a higher-grossing business and loaf about in his retirement

i think i only ever bought like one record there, in the past 15 years - just didn't seem to be any draw over the fetus or cheapo

Bummed that Treehouse is closing, but I'm way more upset that Evergreen (the restaurant) is closing at the end of June.

oh shit really?? frikkin love Evergreen

also i think i went to treehouse exactly once, and the fetus maybe four or five times -- i was always a cheapo guy

I can't stop calling it Oarfolk in my head (a friend worked there for years).

nicollet/26th is gentrifying quick, i bet a lot of the legacy 'eat street' places like evergreen will leave after awhile

little t's has a liquor license now (while i am as interesting as ever)

saw a picture on ilxor Eric's fb page where Nicollet was all torn up, are they just redoing the road or is something else going on?

they're tearing it up and leaving that way forever

It sure seems that way tbh.

when's mud wrestlin' season?

the Kmart on lake is one of the most successful in the country??

http://m.startribune.com/in-hopes-of-reopening-nicollet-avenue-minneapolis-may-spend-7-million-on-kmart-site/422849923/

uhhhh

Kmart's lease at the site doesn't expire until 2053.

what the hell

i know, it's wild

is that the one where the road runs into the parking lot? maybe people accidentally drive in and figure they'll do some shopping

it's the worst

I really wonder how a pretty notable street came to stop, turn into a k-mart, and then continue

The city has tried unsuccessfully to reach an agreement with Kmart that would allow Nicollet Avenue to reopen while store operations continue, said David Frank, the city's director of economic policy and development.

i can kinda understand kmart balking at this. what could the city tell them? "yeah, the store can stay open, we're just gonna, sort of run a road right through the fuckin middle of it, and the parking lot"

I really wonder how a pretty notable street came to stop, turn into a k-mart, and then continue

― mh, Thursday, May 18, 2017 9:09 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

from what i've pieced together, 70s redevelopment ideas were about as bad as they are now, just different.

Today, it almost feels like it was a move to intentionally block off one section of neighborhood from the other.

as someone who doesn't live in mpls, but has been there enough times to mostly navigate without checking a map by knowing cardinal directions and major streets, I've been bitten by driving into the dead ends on *both* ends of that fucking k-mart

instead of this busy street with old storefronts and people hanging around, why not have a big new superstore with ample parking, like in the suburbs!

xp yeah it's a huge pain. i hope they work something out.

also if you've ever been in there, the detail that it's something close to a kmart flagship is stunning

do you think it was some dominance move by k-mart during target's early years? lol

i haven't read this thru yet but here's a short history:

https://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2014/04/history-nicollet-wall-and-hamstrung-city-hall

the street was blocked before kmart even agreed to go in there? jesus

It's a travesty, and whoever gave them that lease was a fool, but does "Eat Street" benefit by being less of a thoroughfare?

Also part of this bit of sad local history:

http://truecrime.wikia.com/wiki/Murder_of_Anne_Barber_Dunlap

didn't it get put in for the same reason that they ran the fucking interstate right through the middle of a neighborhood aka racism?

not sure that Lake and Nicollet would be the place for that? foolhardy visions of an urban Southdale seems more plausible.

xp that's what I'm saying! Feels a little Rondo lite

Total segregation. The Uptown side is white and gentrifying, the other side is new arrivals/black residents.

in 1977?

Lyndale has always been the dividing line tho in that neighborhood, not the interstate.

Hmm yes, definitely - my mom was born around Bloomington and Lake in the 40s on the 'new arrivals' side (Swedish dad, Polish mom, maternal grandmother with a tavern on Lake). The other side has always had MIA and MCAD so a transient student/younger renter population even back then. Also nicer houses between Lake and Franklin.

Wouldn't between Lake and Franklin be what's theoretically getting walled off here?

Lived in this neighborhood pre-K-Mart (though I guess my parents were transient students at the time), and doesn't make sense to me (could well be wrong).

I'd actually submit that a Kmart is actually more beneficial to many of the residents of the neighborhood many of whom rely on public transportation than knocking it down and turning it into more fucking brewpubs. It's actually one of the few stores in that area you can get essentials at non-corner store inflated prices.

Though I'm sure it will eventually be another ugly ass condo with first floor retail