Two lines in the Strib story that caught my attention:
" The council members and Mayor R.T. Rybak took pains to praise Ackerberg's
work in the city and his vision, but they sent him away defeated and
uncertain of his next step with the site he controls."
and
" Rybak, who is seeking reelection, also recently came out against the
proposal."
Minneapolis may have the distinction of being the only city in the country
with a mayor who is against development. Here we have a proposal that
required no city subsidy and increase the tax base of the city. Then the
Mayor, who likes to cry about how poor the city is and how it can't afford
things like police services, coming out against more revenue coming into the
city's coffers. What's wrong with this picture?
It wasn't all that long ago that members of the Council would defer to the
member in whose ward a project is located (yes, they all like to stick their
fingers into the 7th ward), and yes the Councilmember from the 10th was a
supporter of the projects.
Looks like it's time to find some folks who might engage their brains to
occupy some offices at City Hall.
Terrell Brown
Loring Park
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Subject: [Mpls] Council committee turns down Lagoon Project
Sez da Strib:
Uptown won't be getting up-sized just yet.
The Minneapolis City Council Zoning and Planning Committee said no today
to a privately funded project in the trendy entertainment district by the
Ackerberg Group and Clark Gassen. Their vision would have turned a
287-space surface parking lot behind the Lagoon Theater into a
residential-office-commercial complex with a plaza, two towers, an
expanded movie house and underground parking.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/5472788.html
David Brauer
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