I am no Billy Graham patron, though I see no reason for a negative
attitude.
In past decades, lacking neon, I am not sure that anyone even knew
that building was Billy Graham, The street, around the Graham center was
the worst, with junky bars, xx and so on. Then Billy came to town, got his
picture taken with the Downtown Council and shortly, a few hundred million
investment and the whole Hennepin Ave is very good, which has been a great
self improvement for the city.
The place must employ a few hundred people. Don't know that it pays
taxes. It sure hasn't caused any trouble that I ever heard of and they did
use the Dome Stadium, which must have contributed something to the erstwhile
baseball park revenue.
And like winning baseball, they do draw a big crowd.
James Jacobsen // Whittier
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