An unfinished project on the North Side

Twenty years after Legal Aid filed a landmark lawsuit to reshape four aging North Side housing projects, the landscape has changed substantially. But a significant portion of the promised redevelopment remains unfulfilled, and there’s no timetable for completing it. Nor has anyone studied how the low-income people who were supposed to benefit made out once they were resettled.

via StarTribune, click pic for story.

New face to grace Nicollet Mall

Plans for an expanded Xcel Energy Inc. headquarters campus in downtown Minneapolis may help a long-standing effort to revitalize a blighted expanse of north Nicollet Mall that stretches to the Mississippi River.

Minnetonka-based Opus Development Corp. released plans Tuesday to build a nine-story office building on the southeast corner of Nicollet Mall and 4th Street. Office space in the new building would be leased to Xcel Energy for roughly half of its 1,500 employees downtown, with the remaining workforce located in the energy company’s headquarters across the street.

Construction is slated to begin in 2014, pending needed approvals, with occupancy expected in 2016.

Lowry Avenue Bridge from northeast Minneapolis by Michael Gacek

It’s getting there!

‘Ex-town’ Jonathan still has distinct touches of its futuristic beginnings

Jonathan is vaguely futuristic, because the history of Jonathan is utterly unlike that of any other place in the state. Utopian futurism is Jonathan’s heritage, and it’s a heritage that’s easy to spot once you park your car, get out and have a walk around.

By Andy Sturdevant of MinnPost

A tornado’s scar in Minneapolis

The blog, Geo-Located Minneapolis, says Google Earth has released new imagery from above and it clearly shows the path of last year’s tornado through north Minneapolis.

via Minnesota Public Radio

Wrapped up in the rain. by aur2899

By mighty_flynn, who you may also know through his awesome baseball tumblr.

by Kstafki