A New Minneapolis
In the next 7 years or so, Minneapolis is going to spend a chunk of change on new stadiums and transportation. After painful construction, legislation, and probably a few years of delays, this city will look pretty awesome. Being a big fan of conceptual drawing and architecture, I gathered a bunch of photos of the city to be.
Also my friend Dan “Da-Man” Ficker wrote a sweet post about the Mall of America Expansion.
Here is what the Gopher stadium and hopeful extension of the Minneapolis Light Rail (The Central Corridor) will look like. There is talk that the rail will have a station under Coffman Memorial Union and tunnel under the U of M campus. It then would come up near the new stadium, but budget cuts might force them to build around campus. MPR says the design won’t be finalized for 2 years.
TCF Bank Stadium
Central Corridor
The Light Rail is the dotted line running long the bottom.
Twins Stadium
“Twinsville”
What the site looks like now
Man, this is huge. Plus with the Fall of America’s new expansion, the Twin Cities will be really different in about 10 years. Also, this September the Twin Cities get the Repubilican National Convention - look for this to really boot the local economy and initiate more change. I wonder what it’ll all look like, you know, where are the Twin Cities headed?