Tour of Minneapolis

Non-Minnesotans will never understand the friendly rivalry the sister cities have, Jay.  My broker constantly kept recruiting me by asking when I was going to come back from the "dark side"!  Actually, it's a lot like the competition that HRH and I have with each other!

Jeff, We're having a heat wave right now.  The temps have risen as much as 40 degrees over last week's temperatures.  What a relief.  Snow is on the horizon, however.  I'm sure you do recognize the Federal Reserve suspension building (the old one) and Marshall Field's would have been Dayton's when you were here.  It now says "Macy's" on the side.  To Minnesotans it will remain Dayton's for a long time.  Dayton's was more high end than Macy's so it feels like a step down to some of the old faithfull shoppers.  The riverfront would be entirely new to you.  They've taken the old vacant dilapidated grain buildings and made them into high end lofts and created all kinds of paved walking paths by the shore.  It's truly beautiful.  The new Guthrie opened just last year.  I haven't heard the final decision on what would be done with the old building by Loring Park and the statue garden.