Ignorant Criminals Destroy Minneapolis History!!! Nicole Curtis Attempts Heroic Preservation.

A 133 year old home on PARK AVENUE in Minneapolis, was maliciously destroyed today. This historic house was built BEFORE ELECTRICITY! All the woodwork was handcrafted by incredibly skilled builders, before your grandfather was born! To put it in perspective, this house was built before the STONE ARCH BRIDGE was completed!

Speculators with no regard for our city, history, or proper logical procedure, were allowed by corrupt bureaucrats, to demolish it. Even if they valued the empty lot more the the structure, it could have been deconstructed and a wealth of rare materials gained.
A restoration hero called Nicole Curtis, attempted to prevent this criminal activity before, and during it's realization. She not only offered to buy it, move it, pay everyones salaries, whatever it took to SAVE IT, BUT she also spoke truth to these idiots, and leaped into action. Going as far as she could, standing on the porch, while the bastard in the bulldozer endangered her life. This is an assault on the soul of Minneapolis by uncreative, inflexible, power tripping fascists.

http://coololdbuildingsmn.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/old-house-warrior/
http://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/208518211.html
http://www.kare11.com/news/article/1026848/396/Cable-TV-star-tries-to-stop-demolition-of-Mpls-home
http://www.vita.mn/crawl/208566531.html


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Curtis said she had offered to buy the house and move it to another vacant parcel on Park Avenue South. Those plans were apparently moving forward as late as Tuesday when she and her supporters learned that a demolition crew was on its way. Asked why the deal with owner Robert Anderson fell through, Curtis said she didn’t know.

“I have offered crazy money for this,” Curtis said. “This house was a shining example of old world architecture here in Minneapolis. It was just boarded. That was its only crime.

Owner Robert Anderson could not be reached for comment

http://www.diynetwork.com/rehab-addict/show/index.html

Minneapolis looks to restore Nicollet Avenue!

A great idea! But we will have to demolish a KMART first.
In the Mayors recent State of the City address, he dropped a major coment which hinted at a future development to restore Nicollet Ave to it's pre 1977 glory.
Story at Star Tribue http://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/147457695.html

In 1978 a very horrible social engineering development was achieved. It blocked people from conveniently traveling to the heart of downtown via lake street, forcing them onto the newish i35w freeway... except the on-ramps for i35w are seemingly hidden off random streets (35th street).. It was effective at stopping traffic from flowing through what arguably looks like it was the HEART ARTERY of the city. Lake to Nicollet. This physical obstacle is worse then the new political ward boundaries!

The plan also includes bringing back street cars to Nicollet Avenue. They would ride again from 48th Street South, through downtown Nicollet Mall and end at Central Avenue near Columbia Heights.

When the hellish KMART idea was hatched, the community wanted it not. There is a great mural on the back of it depicting the fight against the corporate fascist powers which then dominated the neighborhood.
read about that here: http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/article/2008/09/23/guns-kmart-neglected-mural-protest-lake-and-nicollet.html


Read more about the story here:
http://kstp.com/article/stories/s2445933.shtml
http://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/147457695.html



Old Master Plan
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/www/groups/public/@cped/documents/webcontent/convert_261301.pdf

http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/mpls/messages/topic/3Dybv87yGZTgkhjt1XWGbE