In a message dated 6/8/03 4:04:55 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > I forget who posted it, but I think the best idea I saw was to see whether > the Target building could be turned into a small business/cooperative > incubator like Mercado Central at Lake and Bloomington. There's so many > vacant spaces along West Broadway that each local business and cooperative > that catches on can literally reopen down the street from where they got > their start. This concept would do far more to create local wealth and > community development than begging some other big box to take over the site. > And it would be a far better use of limited MCDA funds than yet another TIF > handout to a massive corporation that should be able to open a new store > with it's own funds. > Keith says; Yes, there are many available spaces on West Bro to open small businesses that initially "catch on at an incubator". Fine dandy. Zoning regs would allow an "incubator" facility all along West Bro. What current zoning will NOT allow, beyond West Bro./Lyndale environs, is big box retail. The only big box zoning currently existing in MOST ALL of North Mpls. is at West Bro/Lyndale area. My point is simple, but hard and fast: North Mpls. needs to preserve, expand, and utilize fully, the few Big Box Retail locations that are already allowed. Great incubator sites can be easily found elsewhere along the Avenue. And, thus, essential neighborhood retail options, big box, need not be traded away for an incubator. No way. Keith Reitman NearNorth TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.) ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
