This is arriving downtown from 94E. I like how winter adds another dimension to the place. The steam puffing into the cold air... This didn't quite capture what i was seeing. This scene always mesmerizes me and i forget for a minute that i am on my way to work. By the time i realized i should take a picture, i was at the wrong angle to get what i wanted. Ah well :).
In the downtown area there are a lot of warehouses/industrial buildings. Quite a few were abandoned and had been so for quite a few years. Then the condo boom came along and replaced all of those old empty buildings with ones like you see here. They are pretty nifty and i often wonder how loud it gets with traffic going by. Maybe the buildings were sound proofed well? Either way, i grew up in a fairly busy part of Mpls. and i would rather not go back to that. Although i can sleep through just about anything.
When the bus leaves downtown, the sun hits the buildings just right so you can peek into the lives of the condo dwellers. There really isn't much to see other than how the places are decorated. You can pretty much guess how that looks, industrial modern.
This is the Salvation Army. When leaving downtown, i can see all the guys sitting on the rooftop patio (there is a lower roof just below the bridge). In the summer there will be patio gazebos set up. I do believe those were samples from work that got donated, so it's kind of funny to see what we see at work out of context.
This would be the first building on the left of 4th St. It's abandoned on this side of the building. There are still quite a few empty spaces. Hopefully that will change with the Twins Stadium just a few hundred feet away.
This is just before i get off the bus and head to work.
In my next post i plan on showing shots from my route through the skyway. It's an interesting concept that i don't know how to describe because i'm so used to it. I just know that people from out-of-town are fascinated with the concept of skyways.
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