REMEMBER THE DAYS...(please add to this ironic list)", topic by KEITH REITMAN /DOWN MEMORY LANE AT WEST BROADWAY ENVIRONS, October 04, 2000 10:54 PM CST "...when you could walk to the corner store for a jug of milk at 9:PM? (26th & Penn or Broadway & Irving) ...when West Broadway was a destination for more then gas, Target, and drugs? ...when most of the neighbors looked after their kids? Please add onto this list as you see fit, start with --"when..."and then add what ever you remember. Submit Response Keith Reitman/Broadway-Irving property owner and Broadway Business Block Club member, October 13, 2000, 10:30 PM CST "...when owning a rental property in the neighborhood was respected, government subsidized housing was transitional (short-term) and it didn't cost $120,000 per unit to build. I think that way back then the private builders built the stuff in our neighborhoods and the city was the policeman, street cleaner, etc., and didn't meddle so much in the free market place. Current results: The North side has neither clean and safe streets nor an adequate supply of homes. Of course, desperate neighborhood residents can blame the slum lords and let our city leaders off the hook. The best and only way to create a vibrant neighborhood is to get over the government money addiction, it hasn't worked. Lets create a neighborhood where home seekers and business people rush in to live and do business. This new blood and energy will create the natural bidding up of property values and reinvestment in the hood. Much preferred to the artificial raising of housing prices we currently see caused by the city's willy-nilly demolition of any property that happens to end up distressed. Those pesky slumlords will move on when the investment in real estate is a reasonable and safe investment for a broad base of people such as you, dear reader, or your sons and daughters. Our city leaders fueled the disinvestment in our neighborhood, free capital moved over the hill." Keith Reitman Near North _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
