> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > According to an article in today's Star Tribune, Minneapolis downtown living > claims are disputed in a major new study to be released today. According to > the study's author, it's not as good as Minneapolis boosters claim but it is > not as bad as other major cities.
As I read the story, the only Downtown boosters claim that didn't hold up was that we have more folks living downtown that four other major cities (including Houston, Denver and Indianapolis). The rest was the author's rather murky (at least from reading the story) classification of downtowns as "emerging." Fundamentally, Minneapolis's rank in the top 10 nationally for Downtown population is noteworthy, for a city that isn't in the top 35 population-wise (the chart accompanying the story did a good job of showing that). And I the Detroit comparison is population only, not amenities, income demographics, etc. The study's author seemed to accept the Minneapolis Downtown Council's population number (the consultant, unnamed in the story, is locally based Maxfield Research, by the way). Jeremy Stratton of Skyway News did a story looking at the 30,000-population figure earlier this year: http://www.dtjournal.com/articles/2005/04/04/news/news01.txt David Brauer Kingfield Former editor, Skyway News (now Downtown Journal) REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation, contact the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[email protected] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
