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Friday Morning: local<\/a> media cover the bejeebers<\/a> out of a press conference – the sort of coordinated coverage that screams “a PR flak is working this hard”:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While challenges remain, downtown Minneapolis\u2019 progress toward a post-pandemic revival is picking up steam, according to the panelists who joined a Friday morning online forum hosted by the Minneapolis Downtown Council…\u201cMy take on all of this is that you haven\u2019t seen anything yet. Downtown is going to come back stronger and bigger than ever,\u201d said Fhima, who leads the kitchen at Fhima\u2019s Minneapolis.<\/p>

Still, the panelists said, downtown is currently battling the perception that it\u2019s unsafe \u2014 a perception Fhima [1] said was fueled by the lack of foot traffic on downtown streets during the pandemic, when many office workers shifted to working from home and widespread closures of restaurants and venues kept visitors away. Just as an empty restaurant might make diners question the quality of the food, he said, an empty downtown can leave visitors unnerved<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

“Challenges remain”, indeed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

18 hours after that coordinated burst of manufactured sunshine blowing<\/a> up the Twin Cities collective nethers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two people were killed and 8 wounded in a shooting in downtown Minneapolis<\/a>, police said early Saturday.<\/p>

“Preliminary investigation reveals that two people were standing in a crowded area and got into a verbal confrontation,” the Minneapolis Police Department said in a statement.” Both individuals pulled out guns and began shooting at each other.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Look – I enjoy downtown. I’ve worked there, and 2-3 years ago I used to go down there for concerts fairly regularly – move the Dakota than the First Avenue these days, but whatever. And as a taxpayer, I’ve had a lot of taxpayers money “invested” in it on my behalf, so it’d be nice if the current occupants at the City Council stopped screwing things up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not holding my breath, of course. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[1] Have any of Dave Fhima’s restaurants ever succeeded? . I haven’t paid much attention to the restaurant scene, but going back ten years or so, any of his places turned into their own vacant slices of downtown in a year or so. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday Morning: local media cover the bejeebers out of a press conference – the sort of coordinated coverage that screams “a PR flak is working this hard”: While challenges remain, downtown Minneapolis\u2019 progress toward a post-pandemic revival is picking up steam, according to the panelists who joined a Friday morning online forum hosted by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419,416,7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-riots","category-covid19","category-crime-and-punishment","category-minneapolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77995","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=77995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78004,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77995\/revisions\/78004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}