The Butcher of Calhoun Square
Yikes! You know you are getting on in years when they tear down the hip buildings of your 20s. (Click above to go to the photoblog.)
Calhoun Square was a never-really-successful urban mall in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis. It was developed while I lived in the area and displaced some interesting, some rundown, but none-really-successful storefronts. One of the storeowners even fought the development by decorating his store windows with "Stop Updale" signs.
So they built the place and one of the restaurants had sidewalk tables next to the bus stop. Diesel fumes at no extra charge!
So it's being torn down...probably to build more condominiums...sigh.
Update on Updale: Wikipedia has a entry on Calhoun Square. I guess this is an expansion, not a total demolition.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
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