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February 21, 2013

If you’re like us Wakers, then you’re sick of seeing all of these luxury condos popping up all over campus and its surrounding areas. It seems as though there’s no end in sight- they’ve already taken over some of Dinkytown (our beloved UTech building) and now there’s new plans to tear down …

I understand fondness for the low-slung, low-rent, fairly dingy Dinkytown we’ve all known - I feel it, too (RIP, Purple Onion). I prefer interesting local businesses to chains. But our region is going to grow by ~900k over the next three decades, and I don’t want sprawl. Single story buildings and surface parking lots near major transit lines are exactly what should be replaced. The connection between cheap buildings, low-rent tenants, and attractive redevelopment sites is obvious. The prevailing system in which students live in single family homes that have been chopped into smaller units and neglected is not a good outcome for the students or those neighborhoods (ask families in Marcy Holmes and Como).

(via stuffaboutminneapolis)

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