Star Tribune: Letters
Two letters to the editor in the Thursday, March 9, 2006 Star Tribune:
A RIVERSIDE PARK Doing Park Board's jobThank you, Dr. William McGuire, for stepping in and proposing the park on the river near the new Guthrie Theater instead of a wall of high-rises (Star Tribune, March 3).
His generosity may accomplish what our public institutions won't. The Minneapolis Park Board is more interested in paving over or selling green spaces along the Mississippi River than in preserving them.
For instance, selling the old Fuji-Ya site to "The Wave" condo project, giving parkland to DeLaSalle High School for playing fields, the parking lot in the middle of Nicollet Island where there was once a green spot, and talk of selling the wild spot east of the 10th Avenue bridge for condos. Add to that list the Pillsbury "A" high-rise development that will have an impact on the small park between it and the river.
DAVID HANSON, MINNEAPOLIS
Keep us greenWith his $5 million donation toward a downtown park, William McGuire has demonstrated a greater level of leadership and vision than have the entire Minneapolis Park Board and City Council during this rapid-growth period of the last 10 years.
McGuire is absolutely correct. Our city, in order to be great, must have the green spaces that soften the steel and cement of our urban core. The city would be incredibly shortsighted and negligent to pass up this generous offer.
GLENN MILLER, MINNEAPOLIS
Well said, we say.
Original letters on the Star Tribune website '>at this link.