{"id":75612,"date":"2020-10-17T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75612"},"modified":"2020-10-19T05:31:21","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T10:31:21","slug":"no-there-there-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75612","title":{"rendered":"No There, There"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The question remains:  with 85% of downtown workers not working downtown, and at least 10,000 of them never coming back, h<a href=\"https:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2020\/10\/16\/lack-of-foot-traffic-in-minneapolis-skyways-impacts-businesses\/\">ow much is this article about skyway businesses sodtpedaling the reality?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> Steve Cramer, the president and CEO of the Minneapolis Downtown Council, says only 15% of the typical workforce population works downtown right now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> Several businesses in the Skyway are closed at least temporarily due to COVID-19. Cramer couldn\u2019t specify how many.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> \u201cWe probably will see a few less of those establishments when things kind of bounce back, but when things bounce back, that will create new opportunities for growth so we\u2019re looking for that hopeful day as well,\u201d Cramer said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>In theory, yes \u2013 if Governor clink ever \u201callows\u201c things to go back to normal, it\u2019s hypothetically true that all those empty skyway store fronts will provide a world of opportunity for the next round of merchants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Provided, of course,  that people come back &#8211; that working from home doesn\u2019t gut the commercial real estate market &#8211; and that the public safety situation downtown doesn\u2019t keep businesses away <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question remains: with 85% of downtown workers not working downtown, and at least 10,000 of them never coming back, how much is this article about skyway businesses sodtpedaling the reality? Steve Cramer, the president and CEO of the Minneapolis Downtown Council, says only 15% of the typical workforce population works downtown right now. Several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,416,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-covid19","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75612","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=75612"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75629,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75612\/revisions\/75629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}