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by rsync 1382 days ago
I just spent a week in Minneapolis and the downtown core is as clean, new, well maintained and well ordered as I have ever seen it.

It was also dead.

Weekday morning skyway traffic looked like a weekend or a holiday. New office campuses … tumbleweeds. My hotel was almost empty.

That’s an enormous amount of (relatively recent) investment that is now of questionable value.