800 empty heated and lighted classrooms with soap in the lavatories and secure locks on the outside doors. Hmm. What could go in there.
Freebie examples: Medical/dental assessments - vide the NIP clinic on Hennepin, run by volunteer professionals with a sliding scale fee structure for uninsured clients. The resource shelf for infant supplies that Calvary Baptist maintains (and Calvary's ESL classes and their sewing workshop). Simpson Methodist's hand-me-down computers and computer tutoring (also found at the House of Charity's dining facility on Park Ave.) Evening classes for adults on a plethora of topics run by the school system itself and other offerings run by the Free University. Paying examples: Night classes from Mankato State University - they have an ambitious outreach program for students in the Twin Cities and TC suburbs. NRP offices now housed in rented facilities - possibly expanding service activities and neighborhood events. Room for contract staff with multi-neighborhood assignments. Incubators for specialized service organizations like CLUES, AAFS, Blind, Inc. - not these specific examples but rather comparable non-profits that have budgets for facility rental and a likely growth curve. Self-help groups. Lambda Sobriety Center was an anchor tenant for several years in a fairly nondescript commercial building on Nicollet Ave. We paid our way with membership money and eventually outgrew the place. For-profit activities if the shoe fits - clean assembly work, telemarketing, white-collar/pink-collar spillover for big outfits that have run out of expansion room, free-standing commercial conversions like the suuks and mercados. These are nickel and dime suggestions, granted, but demolition is so very terminal and eventual replacement so very expensive. Fred Markus, West Phillips REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
