The silence of the Northside councilors on this issue is
deafening.______________________!
Where are the council members from ward 1,3 and 5 on this matter. Direct
impact on their wards would be understating. Waiting for Godat.
Craig Miller
Rogers MN
Former Camdenite
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-----Original Message-----
From: Scott McGerik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, October 21, 2000 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: Neighborhood ball parks
>Fran Guminga,
>
>> I was enjoying a good laugh or two about the "neighborhood ball parks"
until
>> I realized some people are getting serious.
>
>I am totally and completely serious about putting a ball park near W.
>Broadway and the river. I believe it would be great amenity.
>
>Also, ballparks do not have to be hulking sports stadiums. One only has to
>compare Midway Stadium to the Metrodome or to the Target Center. A outdoor
>ballpark can fit well into a neighborhood. By comparison, Midway Stadium
>fits in well with its surroundings and does not stick out like the
Metrodome
>or the Target Center, though, I have no complaints with the current
>locations of the Metrodome and the Target Center.
>
>Building a ballpark on the abandoned lots and scrapyards west of the river
>would be a capital investment in north Minneapolis that you were bemoaning
>the lack of. And regarding environmental issues, cleaning up the scrapyards
>and industrial yards would provide an opportunity to perform environmental
>clean up. Storm water retention ponds could be built and run-off from
these
>businesses could be built. If we as a neighborhood did have a say in the
>design and building of the ballpark, as the ballpark advocates say we
would,
>then we would be able to design a ball park that is not a behemoth and that
>is not surrounded by hard services such as parking lots. Who is to say that
>we can not have a beautiful park surrounding this ball park. A park that
>would restore at least part of Mississippi River front.
>
>I, for one, am not convinced that removing the industrial scrapyards and
>replacing them with a ballpark, in a park, is neglecting the river or the
>historic or ecologically significance of the river. Rather, I see it as a
>way to harness the value of the river in an environmentally sound matter.
>
>Scott McGerik
>Ward 3
>Hawthorne
>Minneapolis
>www.visi.com/~scottlm/
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