The Nicollet Lake Development has already been reconfigured WITHOUT the K-Mart as part of it. It will all work out fine. If you look at the current configuration of the design, it shows the big box buildings flanked with micro commercial spaces on both the Lake Street and the Nicollet Avenue side. So, the big box look has been minimized greatly with this design.
The K-Mart at Nicollet and Lake was one of the 10 most profitable K-Marts in Minnesota. What that tells me is that there is a great need for a major low cost retailer on Lake Street in addition to Target. Whether it's at Nicollet and Lake, the Sears site, the Elroy site, or some other site along Lake street doesn't really matter. I guess we would live without one if push came to shove as well. There is Target on the far east end of Lake Street. It seems Walmart has a policy toward locating their stores in suburban environments rather than urban ones so don't know that they would be an option. I know the best thing that could happen at Nicollet and Lake is for K-Mart to either close it's doors or turn sideways and redesign their store. Doesn't seem like the later is going to happen so we can only hope they will decide to close their doors. It would make the cost of the Nicollet Lake development a great deal cheaper if they went away voluntarily. Barb Lickness Whittier __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com _______________________________________ 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
