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Saturday December 27th 2025
Stop the Expansion, Support Livability for Residents & Better Conditions for Mallgoers
September 21, City Planning Commission to Vote on Expansion of Sabri 24th St Mall
BY COALITION OF RESIDENTS THAT OPPOSEÂ OPPOSE THE SABRI MARKET EXPANSION
Eagle Management ”“ Omar Sabri ”“ manager of the 24th Street Village Mall, wants to expand retail & commercial space by 8,800 square feet by building a new two-story space on top of the parking lot on 10th avenue & 24th street. In 2001, this site was approved for a 37-stall farmers market, but it has actually turned into a shopping mall with a place of worship and over 100 stores. As a result, the Sabri property places a SERIOUS burden on a neighborhood that is already asked to bear more environmental and economic burdens than most neighborhoods. The entire community needs relief to address safety issues and crime, reduces parking congestion and litter, and respects the needs of all residents and business owners in the community.Â
This is a request to community members to OPPOSE the Sabri expansion.… Read the rest “Stop the Expansion, Support Livability for Residents & Better Conditions for Mallgoers”
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Magic Stone
By Peter Molenaar
Apart from the smooth “water stones” deposited by the last glacier was a jagged chunk of glassy black obsidian fused to a layer of grainy brown basalt. Evidently, some billion years ago, there had been a torrential rain in conjunction with volcanic activity.
It is the southward path of Portland Avenue which leads ultimately to Pond Dakota Mission Park, and the high ground overlooking the Minnesota River Valley. From this vantage, herds of woolly mammoths once pondered the water bursting eastward from Lake Agassiz.
Then came the ancient peoples who paused at the spring fed streams, springs which are familiar to me. Later, the Iowa-Oto people occupied and mingled before they too were displaced (and mingled) by the Dakota”¦
Does the GREAT SPIRIT animate all things? Electrons spin clouds around the nucleus, at about one-tenth the speed of light.
I am afraid.
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