How in the world would the new apartment tower not fit at 5th and Nicollet? It is in the middle of downtown? It fits perfectly!!! And the Carlyle are CONDOS, not apartments. And that is a great building which extends our great skyline and adds to it a lot. What are you looking at?

how provincial is this woman. The Carlyle looks great. 33 stories is too high? Geez, give me a break. It is the only place in the state where you can build tall buildings! Think about the skyline? The skyline would be improved. I suppose Barbra thinks Phoenix has a better skyline than Chicago. She makes a good point about removing K-Mart.

Wow this writer is out of touch. A building cannot be tall at FIFTH and NICOLLET? The Carlyle is too tall? A shorter building would be better for the skyline? Actually the only thing that would be better for our skyline at FIFTH and NICOLLET, you know, that intersection in DOWNTOWN, would be a 1000' signature tower. But there's enough other surface lots to be filled in down the road, so I'm sure most of us rational Minneapolitans will take a 33' residential high-rise on a prominent downtown corner. Flanagan, if you like the surface parking lot so much, I'm sure you can enjoy the ones around the Strib HQ instead.

What??? 33 stories is too tall??? In what world?

Has R.T. already seen renderings of the re-designed Peavey Plaza? When will the public have an opportunity to take a peek? With all due respect to Ms. Flannigan, high rise residential apartments are completely appropriate for downtown Minneapolis and their development encouraged. They are energy efficient, promote Light Rail Transit usage, and the residents patronize the stores and area restaurants, creating an eclectic street presence, making downtown the 24-7 city we long for it to become. Love the Monte Carlo but also Minneapolis desperately needs a 24-hour delicatessen downtown where you can get a Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray Soda and a lean hot pastrami on a hearty Jewish rye. Add to the city's culinary mix a top notch soul food restaurant with smothered pork chops, collards and thick mac and cheese and then we can celebrate.

"We now have 31,502 downtown residents. It is a figure from Russ Nelson of Nelson Tietz & Hoye, a real estate consulting firm here. The city would like to see that number grow, and so would I." How on earth does one plan to do this if you don't like high buildings in and around the core of downtown and want them being planned only low density??

Bab's it time to retire......your old school opinions are not relevant in today's world, but then again not much printed in newspapers anymore is.

Comments like this can be very counterproductive. Especially since she didn't cite and crucial reasons why the height should be lowered.