[Mpls] Walker Library Idea

[Tracy]

List,

Has anyone thought about moving the new Walker Library back to the old 
Walker Library site across Hennepin?  I understand that Pagoda, the 
upscale spa that has been in that space for about 6 months, is closing 
shop and, again, the building will sit vacant.  I dont' know why the 
library originally left that site, but it is a beautiful old building, 
a protected historic resource in Minneapolis, right next to the transit 
stop, and if modifications could be made to the building (ADA 
requirements met, necessary technology improvements, maybe an outdoor 
cafe in the front courtyard....), the parcel across the street could be 
condos and upscale Uptown shops beneath.

Perhaps someone has proposed this already.  But, as a poet once said, 
maybe what lasts is what you start with.

Tracy Nordstrom
Avid reader, Uptown Pedestrian, ECCO Resident