The Bad News, And Good News, About Downtown Minneapolis’s Future
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- It's hard to deny that the COVID pandemic has put a stop to the hustle and bustle of downtown Minneapolis. But there is some hope on the horizon for the center of the biggest city in the Upper Midwest.
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Its a different place because of the violence😏.
Who want be down there.. When all this crazy shit going on
What shit ? Crime is not as bad as 2020-21
Why is Downtown so empty...Tell us why
You people think it’s due to COVID ?? You people are clueless !
We will be going to down town MPLS tomorrow to clean out my wife's office. She will NEVER return.
She leave Minneapolis or just not like downtown?
@@loveforever8661 Her law office is down town MPLS. Several months ago they asked her to start going back to the office and she said no and kept working from home. The office never said another word to her. She will be retiring very soon and going in to bring personal items home. After that will not set food in MPLS till we feel safe going.
@@BadWolf1958 In your opinion, will Minneapolis's crime probably getting worse or better in the next few years.
@@trueconservatie33 I would only be making a guess. MPLS did get some new council members. Time will tell if crime rates go down.
Prosecutors and judges elected officials all need to get tougher on crime.
I am not a young person anymore. If the cities keep getting worse I can afford to move.
@@BadWolf1958 as long as dems are in charge mpls will continue to slide into the cesspool of doomed dem cities
Hmmm nothing about crime lmao 🤣
You can have crime or business. Pick one. Stop blaming covid.
Downtown is toast. What the crazy City Council did to the businesses on the Nicollet Mall the pandemic finished off!
Before BLM everything was fine!
Well if you get chased in the skyway you have only one direction to run. Not going up there anytime soon.
I have two choices, I run toward the danger!
A lot of people just prefer NOT being shot,stabbed, and / or robbed 🙄
Robbing people of a place of rest is robbing. Capitalism lovely isn’t it?
I’ve seen more homeless people in my city than any place in S America. To think that people are that different is a lie
I friend of mine has a niece who as a teacher is far left. To prove her love of diversity she went to such a bar in downtown. She was drugged and ended up in the ER. She is now terrified of downtown and it probably didn’t even cross her mind what the problem is.
@@arthurbrumagem3844 😅😅. That is so funny
@@secrets.295 unfortunately true.
The pandemic didn't do this. High levels of violent crime and the catch and release approach to crime is exactly why Downtown is the way it is. Stop blaming COVID19 for something that has been a problem in Downtown Minneapolis for years and years.
It’s dangerous in DT
The Mayor and the City Council got rid of the anti-vagrancy ordinances and allowed dangerous people to loiter downtown. That is the difference!
You sound like a trump supporter 😬
@@cartier2312 You sound like a Frey supporter...and that is not good! Like police stations burning down on purpose?
It's got nothing to do with Covid. Frey and the city council turned downtown into a shithole version of downtown Detroit. They did the same thing to uptown too. I watched the reopening of the Dayton s on the mall gallery of retail stores and found it ironic that the idiot that killed downtown was the same guy who was cutting the ribbon at the grand opening. Some of this shot you cannot make up.
Just another example of failed government
@@markanderson6787 so true! I noticed a big turn for the worst 2018/2019. It was so bad in front of the library that I stopped going there. One of my employees was attacked on the light rail in 2018 and the police officer she reported the incident to told her to not wear lipstick on the train. It was 7am!
Do I hear fire crackers??
People no longer go downtown anymore because of the huge increase in violent crime. They blame everything on COVID.
Crime is so bad and the city leaders look the other way and expect you to also. I
Now you know how Rome felt after Caesar invited the Vandals over for some Latte and scones
I haven’t been able to find a skyway level parking spot in the Midwest ramp for months. I tried to eat lunch at the Hen House a couple months ago and it was a 45 min wait.
This is the road to Minneapolis becoming the next Detroit
Bruh no way Minneapolis will go that far. Minneapolis is too great of a place
haven't been dt in years. no incentive to. covid and protests killed it. won't ever be like it was pre-pandemic. sad as i used to work and frequently hang out there during the 90s, the heydays
You spelled riots wrong
Not going to an arcade shooting gallery.
I thought I saw Rudy…
I doubted it will recover. Maybe to a small degree but not like before. Just like Detroit, once a city is destroyed to such an extent, its hard to recover back
False
I used to walk the Greenway even at 2am and didn't feel unsafe. Yeah crime still happened buy it used to be a safer city. Now your are likely to get shot or robbed.
Not only it being vacant, but crime is more present now too!
No one will go back downtown. What’s the point of you can work remotely for last two years? Make downtown more fun and interesting and become a point of interest. Not just for work. They tried and that haven’t work for last 20 years. Change the council.
So you think those lockdowns worked ? 😂 The social contract between governments and small business has been broken.
Who wants to go downtown the criminals make you just change your mind.
The only reason I go dt is to work like most people but thank God I cab work from home cause you know a PANDEMIC. So yes people are avoiding crowds even in the workplace
It's also like 0 degrees outside so thats part of the reason nobody is outside lol duh
Ever use the skyways . That is why they were built. Worked downtown for 25 yrs and the cold wasn’t an issue. Try another excuse
Have Littlefield and Crawfish do that interview at 10:30 and talk about what a great place it is.
Worked downtown for 25 yrs before GF got his statue and loved the bars and restaurants. My stockbroker used to say I was her only client who carried a gun. She also said she always knew she was safe with me even though back then things were safe until after ten pm
Just went downtown minneapolis yesterday (january 30th, a saturday of 2022 in case someone sees this in the future), the city had little population walking the streets, everything seemed closed or had no one in it. It just seemed like I had to watch out in some areas.
I went to go because of a vintage flea market that was taking place in the Convention Center. A lot of people were present for that. I parked my car in a pay to park lot. The lot seemed neglected but didnt bother me with it because parking lots are just parking lots, who cares?
When I went up to the ground level, everything seemed alright, the big park area was quite nice to look at and some people were gathered by the flea market event.
After I left the market, I decided to take a big long walk around the cities "go to's." I was walking the streets and wanted to record some of it, sort of like a minneapolis tour-the-streets. However, after a couple blocks, i noticed that there were yellow snow piss spots almost EVERYWHERE i walked and it degraded the cleaniness of the sidewalks. Didnt want to show that. A lot of trash was littered everywhere, but I didn't really pay attention to that because I assumed every city is like that. As I kept walking, i couldnt help but look at all of the poorly maintained buildings. It was like years of neglect or carelessness deprived it of any life and they seemed very vacant. Everyone who was on the streets were either in big groups or hurrying fast, I don't know the reason why, but that was super common? Later, I went into the city center (sort of like a mall?) and went into a Marshalls where they had to have a security guard stand in front of the door. Imagine needing a guard and metal detectors for a basic little store. There were maybe a few people here and there. I then went onto the ground floor of the center (i entered through a bottom floor from escalators taking me down) and almost every shop was either closed or contained a vacant slot with nothing in it. No one was in the mall except for maybe one person. I couldnt even find a public bathroom. I wandered the streets for 30 more minutes and found everyone either just loitering around a store entrance, or, at this point, anyone at all. Everything just seemed so uninviting, eerie, or hostile. I felt uncomfortable, so i headed back to the car, following the piss stained snowy sidewalks with deteriorating small buildings and lifeless surroundings.
Did I just come at a really bad time, or are people becomming less collective and more cautious of each other?
[Edit] the edits were made to fix grammar mistakes, I do not really care to look at flawless grammar because this was all typed on my phone. That is all!
Welcome to another Dem utopia.
Thanks for the great report. I only see it getting worse. When the next group of NUTS burns it down the Mayor will say how much the city has improved. To many NUTS voting in more NUTS !!;
No they murdered that city. Check back in a decade or 2, maybe. Or it’s gone fo sho
How truly sad
This city is coming back!!
Maybe pride might change that this year.
Law and order.
I bet arod cant wait yo move the team out of that dump
Covid.... yea thats it! lol
Zombie-town
City council has allowed downtown to look ugly.
Look at the makeup of the council