Okay folks here's the real skinny. The Nicollet Lake deal is DOA due to money. Having to choose between this project and Sears, Sears made the cut. As to that bit about studying the area more, it's been done by the Task Force and the neighborhoods the last few years, and if CM Niziolek was concerned about that he's had over a year to work on further study.
Lisa McDonald
East Harriet
----- Original Message -----From: Fredric MarkusSent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 7:11 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re:[Mpls] Nicollet/Lake DebacleOne hopes that neighborhood response to this benighted decision to pull
the plug on Sherman Associates will send a wake-up call to Cms Niziolek
and Lilligren - stunting this development will reverberate through the
west end of the Lake St. corridor and failing to open Nicollet will
perpetuate a long-standing traffic flow problem that will be made worse
in the event the 35W ramp goes forward. Why is city hall willing to see
these major hits to tax base growth potential? Why are the incumbent
council members rolling over for this? I surely see more credibility in
the Lake/Nicollet plans than in the financial black hole that the Sears
Tower has become. In the dark corridors of the city's bureaucracy, is
someone's "professional" reputation being salvaged at substantial
immediate expense to the Sherman Associates firm and formidable future
cost to the economic viability of scores of existing businesses in these
corridors?
What chilling message does this send to the aspirations of other city
council members and their business and residential constituents in other
commercial corridors radiating out from the central business district?
Is this an example of a turf war that pits embattled big-ticket
development bureaucrats against the leaner, more supple, more manageable
products of local initiatives?
We have a weak mayor system of government. Are we now to have a weak
City Council as well?
Fred Markus, Horn Terrace, Ward Ten, in the Lyndale Neighborhood
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