Location, location, location. Next to the thundering tracks, a view of a wasteland and of Hwy 10, a cultural vacuum, a short walk to the county morgue.

Compare how the burned down Cosmo by the Canal thing was touted in Indianapolis to justify exorbitant rents. Compare it to the exorbitant rental pipe dream of getting away with those rental rates at the failed Town Center:

There is being realistic. Then, there is being within the myopic gang of four, the current Ramsey council majority that will plunge headlong into a marketing abyss, and cannot see the difference of downtown Indianapolis, a scenic canal, a short walk from an outstanding university campus with libraries and classes to sit in or audit.

There is not even an Anoka County Library in Clown Center, and given GOP budgeting in the near-term future, there likely will not be one for years, if ever.

You can walk to City Hall and watch people buying license tags. Train buffs can be satisfied, but will they alone populate the thing, paying those rental rates?

Go figure. Conceding the best to the gang-of-four, the location is not without any "art," but then excellence is in the eye of the beholder.

Could we say, "a passing fancy?"