{"id":85077,"date":"2023-05-05T06:35:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T11:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85077"},"modified":"2023-05-05T06:35:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T11:35:06","slug":"deadsville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85077","title":{"rendered":"Deadsville"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Minneapolis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/twin-cities\/2023\/05\/04\/downtown-minneapolis-ranks-near-bottom-foot-traffic\">ranks 59th out of 63 cities<\/a>, in terms of loss of foot traffic since 2019:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Researchers essentially treated smartphones and other mobile devices as a proxy for their owners. If a device pings a nearby cell tower, it&#8217;s a good bet that&#8217;s where the device&#8217;s owner is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The Downtown Council says it&#8217;s all a matter of remote work, and perceptions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Downtown Council CEO Steve Cramer told Axios. The largest downtown employer pre-pandemic, Target, has no in-person requirements. The perception of public safety is another factor, Cramer said.&#8221;Our downtown &#8230; is lot more safe than many of the downtowns that get measured on these indexes, but then you have to factor in perception, and we&#8217;ve been battling that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>He&#8217;s not wrong.  Downtown isn&#8217;t especially dangerous.   Near North and the middle South Side are where most of the actual danger is.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But your odds of having a problem if you&#8217;re a schmuck trying to go to a concert or a game or meet friends for happy hour are about double what they were in 2016.  And while that is also a matter of perception, it&#8217;s not wrong, either. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis ranks 59th out of 63 cities, in terms of loss of foot traffic since 2019: Researchers essentially treated smartphones and other mobile devices as a proxy for their owners. If a device pings a nearby cell tower, it&#8217;s a good bet that&#8217;s where the device&#8217;s owner is. The Downtown Council says it&#8217;s all a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85077","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=85077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85078,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85077\/revisions\/85078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}