[Mpls] Minneapolis Mayor candidates.

[wmmarks]

Socialist2001 at cs.com wrote:

>RT Ryback got his present job because its previous holder, Sharon Sayles 
>Belton was pro-stadium and was percieved to be in the pocket of developers who 
>benefited from the city's financing of downtown development projects, 
>gentrification, etc.
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Perceptions are what they are, but the one who came out of the SSB era 
with the most "favors" was Rebecca Yanish. She's the one who jumped from 
the MCDA to Ryan Co. to a US Senate bid. SSB did clearly support 
building lots of razzmatazz in the loop. Turning the warehouses into 
lofts and building condos seems clearly designed to bring residents into 
downtown who will support the built industries from what I've seen and 
news reports. I'd say the condos and lofts are designed some for the 
wealthy, some for yuppies, buppies and guppies, and some for  empty 
nesters. These people are probably the same ones who will support a 
Twins Stadium and they won't have to park.

I say this to support the notion that there has been a shift in the 
demographics, probably begun when Ray Harris did those townhouses just 
off Loring Park (Green something), if not sooner. It always existed in 
potential because housing around the loop tends toward lots of very 
small units, as do those in Loring Heights, Stevens Square, and Elliot 
Park. That goes back to Fraser as mayor? Maybe further. The bread and 
butter audience for a stadium is now on-site. Last week's paper did 
announce someone applying to build a mondo condo land as tall as the IDS 
or higher.

This is not a new phenomenon. The Colliseum in Rome, the balls fields at 
Palenque, Chitzen Itza, and tons of other sites, Ascot, the original 
Olympics were all in cities or city states and were built by the 
slaves/serfs/peons. Did the wealthy then do their fair share? Highly 
doubtful. They would not have lifted a stone into place, nor hauled from 
quarries, nor anything else implying sweat. No matter what we assert as 
the names of the gods, money is always the first among them.

>WizardMarks, Central
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