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Downtown Minneapolis still grappling with office vacancies, plummeting values
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this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2024
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It probably won't be affordable housing due to code, but the crux of the issue is that walkability is horrible, basically a checkerboard of one-ways for cars. Block E used to be an entertainment spot like 20 years ago but now all the fun spots aren't in downtown, people go to the warehouse district, north loop, lyndale and lake because those are established.
Not much reason to do anything in downtown anymore and anyone opening a restaurant or whatever knows that, so it's just a boring spot
IMO the problem of entertainment, food, and whatnot would fix itself. If a bunch more people move into downtown, things will get built pretty quickly. People don't like being bored. Car culture is a little harder to fix, but Minneapolis is generally pretty good about handling that sort of thing. That's assuming Frey doesn't starting vetoing things though.