I say keep the Walker! It would be nice to still have the old building and perhaps work with both. It saddens me that it was sold for $800,000.00... about the repair bill for the Walker. The Walker is unique and workable. It would be a mistake to put high density housing there and Niziolek, at the Council meeting, first offered a 8 - 12 story building in that space.
It is documented that multi-use does not work for Libraries. It has been done and the city that did it, has stated it was a mistake. The library did spend $30,000.00 for a study but the Mayor said, at the Ways and Means committee, it was not conclusive. Any new study, of course, can say whatever they want it to say, I do not believe this move is about the library. I believe it is more about getting that piece of prime real estate. The library is not the priority and looking at what has been done by the city to the library..... economic starvation..it is not hard to figure out. ( 4.4 million dollar shortage suffered by the library... 2 million from the state and the rest from the city) I don't believe they would put a new library in the same spot as the existing one.....they will push it into a retail space in some other area. I believe the library's existing building has sold, hold, and reserved tags all over it!! dorie gallagher nokomis 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
