Here’s a couple of links from around the web for you to enjoy on your Friday morning:
1. Thisweek publishes an ad-as-article piece on Molly Cool’s in Lakeville.
2. In a followup to our discussion on butter or margarine, Valley Natural Foods has a nice piece on 100% grass-fed Pastureland butter.
Valley Natural Foods is also hosting a free viewing of Food Inc, at The School of Environmental Studies in Apple Valley. You can see more information on their Facebook event listing.
3. The Star Tribune reports that UMore mining could take place beginning in 2011 and up through 2050.
In addition to generating revenue, the mining also will shape the residential and commercial development, leaving behind rolling hills and two lakes on the property.
Yes, just like the other strip mines in the area? Please excuse me while I *cough*.
4. WCCO reeporter, Jason DeRusha, acting as a food critic for Minnesota Monthly mentions one of my suggested spots, Junior’s Cafe in Eagan as one of his top 10 places to get breakfast in the metro.
I also recommended Jensen’s Cafe but it didn’t make the cut. Boo.
5. The Star Tribune talks about modified Carriage Hills development plan which will include less houses and more open space, as if this is the developer being a good land use steward or something.
Yet Eagan’s City Council took this as an opportunity to pretend that the economy is turning around and that everything will soon be honky dory again:
“We’ve had outside indicators that the economy is picking up, and Eagan is attractive,” he said, pointing to a development in the Silver Bell Center, east of Cedar Grove.
6. MinnPost had a nice article about MNCompass which is an aggregated data display service for Minnesota.
It’s not nearly as detailed as I had hoped but some of the maps and interactive charts/graphs are nice to look at it if you just want really high level data. You can see stuff at the county level too but in my quick walk-through of it yesterday I didn’t see much more specific data than that.
7. The Hampton News reminds us that Dakota County Parks opens reservations for its parks on March 1st. So if you’re looking to camp in any of them get your name in now!
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That’s it for this week’s roundup. I’m mainly interested in your thoughts on UMore’s mining and the likelihood that it will actually leave behind “rolling hills” (although I probably have a much different mental picture of ‘rolling hills’ than someone from Minnesota) and lakes. But feel free to comment on about any of the links above and maybe even add a couple of your own to the mix!
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February 26th, 2010 at 11:30 am
Aggregate pits can be reclaimed quite well if the land supports it. i.e. the Fischer space could have been rolling hills, if not for the value of the property as a Commercial site and multi-family housing. I can’t recall the name of the property, but there is property out east of the cities that was a reclaimed aggregate mine. It ended up with a natural spring lake and rolling hills and such. I heard about it when homes in the 600k and up were being developed and town houses 400K and up. I think a gated community was also being built in the area.
That was about 15 years ago though and I can’t recall the town it was in.
February 26th, 2010 at 11:34 am
Thanks for the suggestions. I didn’t have time to make it out to Jensen’s… but it’s on my list for places to get to. (I had to bring my passport for the trip from Maple Grove to Eagan to visit Junior’s!)
February 26th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
Jason, thats a great article. Thanks for the mini review suggestions!
February 26th, 2010 at 12:39 pm
I also recommended Jensen’s. I love their Eggs Benedict on little pancakes.
February 26th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
Breaking news… just drove by Movie Gallery in Farmington. It’s closing and having a everything must go sale. Figured some might like to update their DVD home gallery. Only thing I’m not sure of, but I swear the banner people were putting up along Pilot Knob said 3 for $15. That seems to me to be the normal deal, at least based on my last visit there of about 3 years ago. Thus it may be a clearance company now in possession of the assets.
The map shows it here: http://tiny.cc/S2GUK
Movie gallery is closing about 15 of it’s 30 locations in Minnesota: http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2010/02/01/daily29.html
February 28th, 2010 at 10:03 am
day by day also has a tasty item on their menu called “the heart stopper”! need i say more:)
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