Suburbs - General Topics

[MNdible]

Yeah, some of the quotes are so bad, I can only assume that the reporter told people that they'd be off the record.

[VAStationDude]

You'd like to think people would say stuff like this only off the record. I've read through a lot of Blaine's Planning Commission and City Council minutes and residents pedal the same non-sense when their name, address and statements are being taken down.

Seriously, where do these idiots get this idea that farm fields or wetlands adjacent to their homes won't ever be developed?

[min-chi-cbus]

Comments aside, I LOVE the notion of mid-priced green homes -- I'd buy one!!

[blobs]

Couldn't the neighbors buy the land and place it into a trust for preservation? I don't know why people don't do this when they live next to prairies. I mean, obviously that land is gonna get developed if you don't.

[Tom H.]

Best quote of the article: "There's no more prairie in Eden Prairie." As though it's the compact housing, and not the sprawl, that destroyed it in the first place.

[min-chi-cbus]

^While they're at it, New York is not "new", and Atlanta is not on the Atlantic. Talk about false advertising!!

[Ubermoose]

http://stlouispark.patch.com/groups/5-t ... louis-park
I imagine they are moving into the old the H & R Block location. I'm thrilled that they are moving to my neighborhood.

[Anondson]

Also used to be a movie rental place. Could become a nice little anchor for faded intersection.

[bapster2006]

I would actually go to those stores now.

[Mdcastle]

In Bloomington Popeye's is open, Chick-Fil-A and Duluth Trading Company are almost finished. Streetz American Grill has been open for a while, although I don't go to slow food restaurants there's always a lot of cars there so it must be decent. The neon Great Bear Center sign is broken, I really hope they fix it instead of put up some generic LED sign. I had a local neon guy work on one of my traffic lights, and he says that neon is a dying art, and he's branched into LEDs to make ends meet.

[Mdcastle]

Now that Linder's is closing I'm wondering what will take it's place. Probably a boring apartment building. You paid top dollar at Linder's, but they had plants you couldn't get anywhere else. I'm guess most people were happy buying purple coneflowers at Home Depot. Linder's will be missed. I'll probably go to Gertens now.

[bapster2006]

Yep, I went there many times too. I liked the huge selection. My two honeycrisp trees are from there in 2008.

[seanrichardryan]

Love Linders, I have two commercial accounts with them. Who is going to fill the parking lot hoop house niche now? As for the land, it is currently surrounded by some very poorly managed apartments in need of renovations. I'd imagine something commercial or light industrial filling the space.

[uptowncarag]

In Bloomington Popeye's is open, Chick-Fil-A and Duluth Trading Company are almost finished. Streetz American Grill has been open for a while, although I don't go to slow food restaurants there's always a lot of cars there so it must be decent. The neon Great Bear Center sign is broken, I really hope they fix it instead of put up some generic LED sign. I had a local neon guy work on one of my traffic lights, and he says that neon is a dying art, and he's branched into LEDs to make ends meet.

I love the Great Bear Center because of its 1960's design. It is too bad the building was redone in brown and not blue to match the sign.I wonder if this mall has any connection to Bloomington when they had one high school, the Bloomington Bears?

[blobs]

http://www.twincities.com/family/ci_244 ... ween-trend

"Trunk or treating". This is what people do in the suburbs now. Drive to a parking lot to trick or treat out of the backs of cars.

[min-chi-cbus]

It sounds more like a church-sponsored event or a fair more than a changing of the guard. It would be sad indeed if children actually grew up trick-or-treating out of the backs of people's cars.

[Tom H.]

By the way, the article mentions such an event happening in downtown Red Wing. So, it's a little simplistic to pin this on 'the suburbs'.

[Mdcastle]

Lame church sponsored events are nothing new. Just speaking of my neighborhood the trick-or-treaters hit a low probably 20 years ago and have been increasing since then.

[Mdcastle]

Chick-Fil-A now open in Bloomington and Apple Valley.

[mister.shoes]

494 and Penn in the old Target Commercial Interiors building.