GARY SCHIFF wrote:
> Nobody had much to say about Councilmember Barret Lane's post
> about Indianapolis' financial situation yesterday....snip...Is AA bond
> status (and the higher interest it brings overtime) good enough for
> Minneapolis?...snip...It's vital that Minneapolis have a first class
> central library downtown, and improved branch libraries.
Are you telling me the city can't afford to build a library?
At least
without serious financial consequences?
But, but, but, times are great! Office buildings in the
shape of tissue
boxes can't go up fast enough- and nearly some of them will
be close to half
full when all the dust settles (or maybe they'll be full of
the tenants
currently in other downtown office buildings). Soon a city
financed Target
Store will be available to everyone who has been crying for
years that the
city doesn't heavily finance enough mid-priced retail for
the people's
taste, even though downtown was not all that long ago
teeming with
mid-priced retail (remember Woolworth's, Donaldson's,
Penney's, and I believe Powers was there too) that I am
guessing wasn't underwritten by the City Council et al.
And now Block E, in all of its impending tasteful glitziness
will be in her
honor's own words, "happening!" In a couple of years
Gameworks will offer
everyone the chance to sit in life-size Indy cars and race
against your
friends in virtual reality while simultaneously eating REAL
mozzarella
sticks and other exotic fare one couldn't possibly find
anywhere else in the
city limits without walking seventy-five feet. When you're
done racing you
can walk across the hall and plunk down $8 to watch Val
Kilmer affect some
phony accent while chasing Brendan Fraser through the Alp's
in the "Hannibal
Story", and have a really nice velveteen padded cup holder
for your 67 ounce
CocaCola.
So even if Minneapolis can't REALLY afford a new central
library everyone is
okay, with all the neat new stuff the city has bought its
residents, who
will have time to read, anyway?
It's all about priorities folks!
richard carney
st. paul
formerly Ward 10- ECCO
I would personally like to see a stadium/ballpark/dog park
in place of the
Nicollet Ave. K-Mart, but built on stilts so that the
Avenue's traffic flow
would not have any impediments. With "Eat Street" only a
couple of blocks
down the road, it would, culinarily speaking, be the envy of
the Major
Leagues.
