To help downtown Minneapolis, Frey wants a pedestrian-only Nicollet Mall

Zoom in: The headline grabber is the suggestion that the city should explore making Nicollet pedestrian-only by moving buses to other streets and rebranding the mall as the "best winter street in the nation."

• The group also suggested legislation to allow open containers of alcohol on the mall and in other areas of downtown.

What to watch: While Frey noted that a permanent closure won't happen this year, he said he wants to close parts of the street temporarily for a couple weeks this summer to test the idea.

• One of the first blocks that could become pedestrian-only permanently is between Washington Avenue and Third Street, which is between the new RBC Gateway Tower/Four Seasons and Cancer Survivors Park.

Yes, but: There's a lot of logistics that go into closing a street beyond transit, including emergency vehicles, business deliveries and programming and infrastructure on the street.