I agree with Andy about how Norm took the taxpayers to the cleaners, including Lawson and the Wild arena. I can't recall when Town Square and the World Trade Center Atrium were built. Wasn't the Atrium a renovation when a number of the office tenants had moved on? Depending on the dates, I question saying that these were victims of moving to suburban malls in the 60's, 70's, and 80's. It seems to me more like ignoring history to build up the Atrium in the late 80's, for example. Even the met council has reported that in 1970, 54% of the region's households were outside of the two cities, growing to 69% in 1990, as well as 44% of the jobs being outside in 1970, growing to 63% in 1990. Why would city leaders and businessmen expect shopping downtown to remain stable in such circumstances? That's why downtowns are becoming entertainment districts for the well-off, across the country. Bruce Gaarder Highland Park Saint Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andy Driscoll wrote: > we were taken to the > cleaners by a number of development initiatives - like Galtier Plaza and the > World Trade Center - by unscrupulous developers and insensitive bankers and > foreign investor-owners of these failed properties. Moreover, Minneapolis, I > do not believe, suffered as serious damage as St. Paul in the rush to the > suburban mall era of the 60's, 70's, 80s., leaving our downtown bereft of > retail business and emptying out our storefronts, Town Square and the World > Trade Center Atrium. _______________________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - Minnesota E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
