Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, a big multi-national corporation based in In some ways, this announcement seems overdue since it has seemed for at least a quarter of a century that Mining was planning on leaving.
Combine the fact that probably most Mining stockholders no longer have any contact with any of Minnesota any longer with the fact that manufacturing is leaving most of our country and with the fact that cities are viewed by suburbanites as places only for exploitation, the continuing presence of such a major manufacturing site was probably anachronistic.
This will create what will likely be several sites for redevelop-
ment along Phalen Corridor. How that is done will make a lot of difference for those of us who are still here for the next several generations. The company says there is no pollution on the site to limit development. [We’ll see.] Councilmember Bostrom has indicated that he is open to a lot of ideas, including big box retail. I suspect that most neighbors are, but I would certainly prefer something which provides as many good jobs as possible, which big box often does not do. But I don’t imagine that the whole site could ever go big box, partly because of a shortage of customer base and partly because there are likely infrastructure problems.
But we will see how that all develops. It will take a while.
But there is no reason for the city,
And there is no reason why we cannot immediately take steps to no longer give any consumer preferences to products labeled “Scotch” or “3M”.
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