Investigation finds no evidence for Ostreicher claims

I had hoped you would have included Dave Montgomery’s famous and overused phrase when selling the goods to councilors–“You will get more bites at this apple.” This brings the following images to mind, in a cartoon. I wish I could do it myself. Feel free to create it:

First slide: A small snowball at the top of the hill at Old Central with Councilors Roz and Arik with apples in their mouths because David Montgomery said you’d get three more bites at this apple as she and Arik Forsman are tipping the snowball over the hill, which represents the vote.

Second slide: Shows the snowball rolling down the hill, made up of money and out-of-town New York developers, getting bigger and bigger. Rolling right towards the Downtown District.

Third slide: A bunch of councilors, watching it roll down the hill, and the question will be which councilor will step in front of that snowball to get the second and third bite at the apple.

Fourth slide: Snowball crashing into downtown and destroying it all. The only thing left is more panhandlers and tent communities. All this represents a development at the top of the hill that will in no way save downtown and in no way help people get off the streets. It’ll only exacerbate it.

Final slide: A new Incline (The project is called the Incline for a reason, I would think) as a gondola ride from the Depot up to the top of the hill, where the wealthy will come to Duluth on the NLX to play, and then head back to where they came from. Now that’s a Duluth success story in action.

I would have liked a comparison to what happened at the Riverwest project.