Re: [Mpls] Skyway News Cover Story on Crown Hydro

[Annie Young]

Madeline, one thing the Hydro plant will not do is ruin their 
view.  Depending on your interpretation of their view.  Since the plant is 
down under, in already existing 3 and 4 story basement's still in existence 
from the old mills this hardly detracts.  The lowering of the water over 
the  falls is a different matter.  I have been studying this project for 
years, like crazy as of late and over the years I have come to believe the 
water flows different over the falls every minute of every day and I can't 
for the life of me  figure out the past Board's attachment to the 
2,000cfs.  I have even called former Commissioners to see what they were 
thinking and I am not getting a very clear picture for an answer.
So the verdict is still out.  However, I still have other unanswered 
questions that still leave me not clear of my vote yet.  And for all those 
who are concerned about returning the area back to an Industrial use - hey, 
boys and girls - industry on that river built this City.  The river is a 
very useful creature in and of itself - we are all here because of it - 
historically speaking!
Annie

At 05:51 PM 3/16/04 -0600, md wrote:
One has to wonder how Brighton Development, with such projects
as the North Star, Washburn and Stone Arch lofts and their
well-heeled residents are going to react to the presence of a
hydroelectric plant that will spoil their "lovely view"....
(and possibly decrease their property values)
Linda Mack's 9/7/2003 article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune

"City's birthplace finds new cachet as a vibrant, artsy neighborhood"

(mentions a few of the tony clients...)

"The condos in Brighton's latest project, the Washburn Lofts,
sold for $425,000 to approximately $2.5 million.
The directory reads like the donor lists for the Guthrie and
Walker Art Center -- Sage and John Cowles Jr.,
Philip and Joanne Von Blon, Margaret and Angus Wurtele."
Madeline Douglass
Kingfield (Mpls)
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