Bluff Street Park
As originally printed in the Minnesota Monitor Sat Apr 26, 2008 at 6:50:00 AM
by: Chris Steller
As state funding to local government shrinks, raising cash by selling off Mississipi River bluff parkland for development has proved tempting for both the metro's biggest city and one of its smallest urban entities.
In a March 29, 2006 article subtitled "Adopted bluff park may become a home for native wildlife" journalist Cyn Collins writes:
In an October 28 Star Tribune Commentary, Charles A. Birnbaum, founder and president of the Cultural Landscape Foundation in Washington, D.C., writes about how the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is considering privatizing, selling off and even giving away precious Minneapolis public park property:
SLIP SLIDING AWAY
Here's an update on what's happening to our public parks. Chunks of our parks and parklands are being sold off or rented away. The concept of public parks is being eroded. Here are some examples:
Is the Minneapolis Park Board considering selling a prime parcel on the Mississippi?
An article by Mike Mosedale, September 7, 2005
The Sept./Oct. issue of Preservation magazine from the National Trust for Historic Preservation has an essay called "In Defense of Open Spaces." Some excerpts:
Attend the Park Board meeting Wednesday Sept. 7
What: presentation to the Minneapolis Park Board by the WBCC Bluff Street park task force
BLUFF STREET PARK, aka Gasworks Bluff
WHAT: About 8 acres of linear vacant land above the West River Parkway owned by the Minneapolis Park Board.
