North metro towns have a homegrown share; and then some. My suggestion is the one Strib-quoted planner-idiot should try The Brothers K. Strib's item continues:
"A lot of people felt the government didn't need to hold that prime property and it should be in private hands," Willer said. "We were getting a lot of push on that.
"We really heard it more from the business community: 'We need more people to contribute to our tax base. Spread the load.' The City Council would hear about it, I would hear about it. We struggled for many years with the decision to sell it."
Sauk Centre has a deal in principle with Oppidan Inc., an Excelsior-based developer specializing in big-box retail, fast-food restaurants and other franchise outlets.
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Build that tax base. Block that kick. Win that war. And if you have any thought Babbits are absent from county boards, you don't live where I do. Babbits, Big Mac attacks, hand in glove.
Awaiting big box retail is so grounded in Americana that they made a movie.
God bless the tax base. And those that promote it's growth via propagating root runners.
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This link. And this. Time isn't helping us. Time isn't hurting us. There is the old saying about nine women each with a month, and not that way producing a baby. Put another way: Peristalsis cannot be speeded up. How many taxpayer purchased studies are needed to prove that?
And, what? More mischief about the phony Christian school relocation begetting infrastructure spending of tax dollars leading to the kiting of the value of the raw land? Crabgrass prospering? Given the generous watering? What?