Great post by list moderator Dave Brauer. Why didn't the City choose to help
Target refurbish a place in City Center? It certainly would have been
cheaper.
As I read the Star Tribune piece, the whole thing just doesn't make any
sense. I don't see a downtown Target being the place someone will go to and
fill up a shopping cart. How would you get the merchandise to your car, your
office or where ever? I could just picture in my mind the suggestion from a
list member that abandoned shopping carts might start showing up in the
skyways.
I too, have been in Minneapolis long enough to remember stopping at
Woolworth's or the Great Northern to pick up a few items before getting on
the #4 bus to go home to south Minneapolis. We don't need these gigantic
warehouse type stores - in fact, I am beginning to really believe that all
the problems we have are caused by "bigness". I loved the wonderful little
shops downtown that no longer are there like a great dress store across from
Dayton's on 7th street. Somehow even Neiman Marcus doesn't hold a candle to
it.
Target, Block E - too big, too expensive. Maybe that is why I am getting
more intrigued by a "boutique" ball park. We saw the one in Cleveland last
summer and it is really cute.
Jan Del Calzo
Lynnhurst
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