{"id":37258,"date":"2013-07-16T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T10:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37258"},"modified":"2013-07-13T19:01:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T00:01:50","slug":"a-bargain-althe-best-i-ever-had","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37258","title":{"rendered":"A Bargain &#8211; The Best I Ever Had"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The US Bank building in downtown St. Paul was foreclosed last year. The River Park Plaza building across the river from downtown St. Paul also was foreclosed last year. I don\u2019t know how many more are in the pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>St. Paul Class A office space vacancy rate is 12%. As last report, Class B was 24% and Class C was 19%, for an overall rate of 21%.<\/p>\n<p>This, five years into the \u201crecovery.\u201d This is not your grandfather\u2019s recovery. It\u2019s more like your grandfather\u2019s Great Depression.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And that&#8217;s <em>after <\/em>the State of Minnesota rented a hog-pile of empty and underutilized space.<\/p>\n<p>And, I&#8217;ll guess, before the whole &#8220;Vacant Macy&#8217;s&#8221; gets counted, to boot.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not &#8220;office&#8221; space, after all; just a vacant block.<\/p>\n<p>More &#8220;recovery&#8221; like this and Saint Paul might need to try to find oil under some of those refrigerated ice rinks Mayor Coleman just had to have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The US Bank building in downtown St. Paul was foreclosed last year. The River Park Plaza building across the river from downtown St. Paul also was foreclosed last year. I don\u2019t know how many more are in the pipeline. St. Paul Class A office space vacancy rate is 12%. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,69,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-socialism","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37274,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37258\/revisions\/37274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}