MSP Headquarters

MichMatters

Man, they really need to do something with the overhead wires and wooden poles in this city...

cliffordzang

I agree. I hate how they are everywhere. Seems to me that we'd have a LOT less problems during/after storms if they were buried. The weird thing is that some places they are. My neighborhood is about half and half. Luckily my area they are all underground.

Edit to say that it's the wires that are buried, NOT the poles. ;-)

hood

A couple of construction updates:

MichMatters

August 11

Jared

Here is a new rendering of the MSP Headquarters:


There is an article about it in this week's Capital Gains: $45 Million State Police Headquarters Changes Downtown Lansing Skyline

jwswrites

That rendering, FYI, is the view from the river trail.

MichMatters

Yep, it looking southwest from the River Trail. That is, if there was no trees to obstruct the view. I've found that it makes much less of an impact from the other side of the river than I thought it would.

MichMatters

Yeah, the view from the River Trail is definitely underwhelming:

hood

Has anyone heard any plans for the rivertrail to extend down the west bank past here? With the extension by the new Accident Fund HQ and Capitol Club going up, you would think that there would be a new extension here also. I believe I even seen a Capitol Club siteplan showing a pedestrian bridge, but it was never mentioned in connection with the project.

MichMatters

Nope, I haven't heard anything from the Parks & Rec, and they'd be the ones to make such an announcement. Perhaps, I'll shoot off and email to my contact at Parks & Rec to see if this is going anywhere.