RT comments:
>"The lack of vision doesn't just exist downtown. On Lake Street three
>separate development projects are in active discussion---at Nicollet Av.,
>Chicago Av. and Hiawatha Av.---with seemingly no coordinated vision."
I was just in a meeting this very evening about another atrocity about to
occur with the placement of a 3-ft high 1,026 ft long concrete retaining
wall between 29th Ave. S. and Lake St. Watch for more details on this.
But at the after meeting as some of us were talking we actually were
discussing the vision of Lake Street and the connection of these three huge
spaces and wondering what TIF money will be around for any of these. And RT
is correct - there is no corrdinated vision. Although the architect's
drawings for Nicollet certainly look similar to those he has drawn as
draft's for HiLake.
Seven neighborhood have joined in a collaborative looking at Lake Street
from Lyndale to the River, mostly looking at commonalities and joint
overlaps in programs and work of the neighborhood groups. Many advisory
groups and neighborhood groups including the Hiawatha Corridor Neighborhood
Coalition (made up of neighborhoods along the LRT line) are dealing with
proposed plans for development. And the NRP has set aside $4 million
dollars for the next four years to help support corridor
developments.Originally the NPR corridor money identified W. Broadway,
Central, Lake Street and ???
but now it has been opened up to corridor developments just about anywhere
throughout the city.
My point: how will TIF interconnect with the NRP money and the Federal
EZ/EC funds that will certainly be part of making these corridor plans and
visions the citizens have had about their corridor (or node) work. I
believe that both K-Mart and Hi-Lake will be resolved of their own free
wheeling (mostly driven by the will of the people) because of the external
resources putting pressure on each of these but here's the rub with Lake St.
RT is right - that vision better include that none of it is going to work
without the Great Lake Center also in the mix. I have a question - where
are all these shoppers for all these places - downtown or in the
neighborhoods going to come from??? When I'm out traveling I don't go
looking for places to be dish soap, socks towels. ANd when I go do my
errands I try to do as many of them as close to home as possible. Am I out
there in la-la land (don't answer that) or what - I just don't understand
where all these consumers are with their almighty dollars. This must be
the same consumerism that is killing the planet - don't get me started.
Never-the-less, this babble is meant to have you help me figure out the rob
Peter to pay Paul mentality. Or is it "he" who giveth, can also taketh
away? My question really was, will any TIF monies get put out in the
neighborhoods?
Annie Young
Ward 6 - East Phillips in Minneapolis
Citywide at-large Park Board Commissioner
Working to build a sustainable community
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