Minneapolis downtown: lotta talk, little action

You needn’t really be busy doing things, just look busy by walking briskly and talking with certainty using action words. It works — until someone asks what you’re doing, exactly. Which gets to restoring once-vibrant downtown Minneapolis, something teeming with talk but little walk. So, what’s going on, exactly? Our city’s core suffered through the […]
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