Dave Piehl wrote:
Wizard Marks wrote:WM: I did not mean to convey that notion. It looks to me like the city, county, state, etc. are raising taxes to meet their committments. Where is the point when it becomes too much of a burden for micro-businesses and they go under. Without this project.
As this group (immigrants on Lake St) assimilates,
there is no guarantee that they will continue to
cluster on Lake St...."
David Piehl writes:
Wizard has a point on this, there really is no
guarantee that any business on Lake or anywhere else
will continue indefinately. At one time, people
thought Sears & Honeywell would be there forever; they
are gone. However, by the same token, there is also
no guarantee that Allina and Wells Fargo will be
viable in the longer term either. I think the fact
that the budding businesses on Lake are so fragile is
an argument to do something to assist them, not price
them out of the market.
Wizard writes:
Incubator and micro-businesses cannot, over the long
haul, strengthen Lake St. to produce the kind of taxes
we need to generate. If we're going to do this
project, we want the positive effects to last at least
20 years. (snip) If taxes are raised suddenly to where
we would want them to be, every business goes down.
They're too small to bear that burden.....
David Piehl writes:
It took me a minute to digest this, but it is a scary
thought, and one of the main reasons I oppose the Access/Excess Project.
pay for the Access Project, or possibly someone'sFrom this statement, I get the idea that in order to
"preferred" outcome of it - taxes all along Lake
Street will rise.
This in turn will cause strugglingWM: What's gentrification? If we go from just K-Mart and Target to say Penney's? Or is it gentrification when Dayton's wants to set up shop? (Fat chance.) If we get more restaurants? How about companies with jobs on offer for a reasonable wage?
businesses to fail, and at that point businesses that
can afford to pay the high taxes - businesses that
want access, will move in to "revitalize" or more
appropriately to gentrify Lake Street.
Your conclusion doesn't follow what I've said. I just sent an e-mail to this list on the access project and the process which brings this project to this point. Check it out.I think this makes it clear that the Access Project isn't about helping the people & businesses who are already in south Minneapolis - if it's not for us,then who is it for?!? Very frightening!
WizardMarks, Central
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