Bill Lindeke

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In praise of Twin Cities strip malls

By: Bill Lindeke

Urbanists are quick to reject strip malls, but a closer look reveals something especially valuable these days — affordable, small-scale commercial rents.

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St. Paul tiptoes toward reforming its safety inspections process

By: Bill Lindeke

Wes Burdine, the owner of a University Avenue bar in St. Paul, was pretty excited when construction was set to begin on his new outdoor tap building.

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Did Minneapolis' ugliest building have to be this bad?

By: Bill Lindeke

“What's the worst building in Minneapolis, and why is it the Multifoods Tower?” That's the question I jokingly asked my friend Vince a while back.

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Whenever you hear about an encampment “sweep,” first ask: Where will the people go?

By: Bill Lindeke

Unfortunately, unsheltered people living in tents have become a defining image of post-COVID city life.

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A data center is an odd fit for the increasingly valuable North Loop in Minneapolis

By: Bill Lindeke

When the Minnesota Star Tribune built a large newspaper printing factory in the mid-1980s, Minneapolis' North Loop neighborhood looked a lot different.

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A ‘kissing canopy' is getting harder to find on Twin Cities streets

By: Bill Lindeke

In many areas, our trees are too small and streets are too big, making it harder to find a branching crown overhead.

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Wandering downtown St. Paul has become a thespian treasure hunt

By: Bill Lindeke

Wandering downtown St. Paul can be a lonely affair. If you don't know where to find the rare neighborhood spots, places that attract the 15,000 residents like bees to nectar, it can seem deserted.

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Fare compliance is real, but the bigger goal is to change the transit vibe

By: Bill Lindeke

Using a variety of staffing strategies, Metro Transit is making progress with safety initiatives on light rail trains.

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City, county and state pass the buck on responsibility for historic St. Paul bridge

By: Bill Lindeke

The closed 7th Street Improvement Arches bridge reveals how the palimpsest nature of infrastructure, one thing is built on an older thing, creates intergovernmental unaccountability.

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From my New York City rooftop, I watched 9/11 usher in the age of spectacle

By: Bill Lindeke

Perhaps my slow-motion, analog experience of 9/11 captures, in relief, the profound role that spectacle played in the horror.