Developing Downtown Residential Space Key to Economic Development
When we think about recruiting Minnesotans to move to South Dakota, we often think about selling Minnesota's city dwellers on the merits of rural life. Fresh air! Big skies! More chance of dying in an...
View ArticleKey to Madison Downtown Development: More Courtroom Drama!
A Facebook friend notes that the Dan Willard robocall trial has things hopping in Madison. The block around the courthouse was packed with cars yesterday. My friend spotted newly christened Heartland...
View ArticleMadison Thrift Store Redux: Backers to Build Without Public Subsidy
Ah, Madison. Two years ago, we Madisonites had all sorts of fun discussing one group's plan to spend $1,050,000 to build a big community thrift store on South Egan Avenue on the site of the old Jensen...
View ArticleAllen Protests Thrift Store; Will Voters Respond?
[Note: this post discusses the views of Ashley Kenneth Allen, who is also the newest advertiser on the Madville Times. Readers may draw and post their own conclusions as to the accuracy and fairness of...
View ArticleWolff on Madison Thrift Store: Disappointing, But Not Worth Opposing
Madison City Commission candidate Jennifer Wolff is disappointed with the new downtown thrift store proposal: Yesterday's front page news was the new community thrift store planned for Madison. Two...
View ArticleDinner and a Movie Downtown in Sturgis!
What can Sturgis do to provide its residents with some local entertainment after all the motorcycles go home? How about turn one of their big biker saloons into a local movie house? Easyriders Saloon...
View ArticleThrift Store Developers Acquire Jensen/LAIC Property for Free
Madison's thrift store relaunched this month as an entirely private, public-subsidy-free project. The private developers began demolition of the old Jensen building this week to make way for their...
View ArticleFargo Supports Lowe’s Point on Downtown Development
In the Democratic gubernatorial candidates' forum on SDPB last Thursday, candidate Joe Lowe recommended that the Governor's Office of Economic Development redirect some of its grants from big...
View ArticleChocolate, Microbrews, Competition—Madison Main Street Looking Up!
My teetotaling heart raps double-quick at Jane Utecht's report that Madison will soon have one less place to get alcohol. (And Gaia be praised, it's not being replaced with a smut shop). Main Street's...
View ArticleWrecking Ball Coming to Madison Masonic Temple This Month
Old postcard showing Masonic Temple before widening of Highway 34. One of my true loves has died, and I could not save her. Gale Pifer reports that DeLon Mork and Randy Schaefer will demolish the old...
View ArticleDeveloping Downtown Residential Space Key to Economic Development
When we think about recruiting Minnesotans to move to South Dakota, we often think about selling Minnesota's city dwellers on the merits of rural life. Fresh air! Big skies! More chance of dying in an...
View ArticleKey to Madison Downtown Development: More Courtroom Drama!
A Facebook friend notes that the Dan Willard robocall trial has things hopping in Madison. The block around the courthouse was packed with cars yesterday. My friend spotted newly christened Heartland...
View ArticleMadison Thrift Store Redux: Backers to Build Without Public Subsidy
Ah, Madison. Two years ago, we Madisonites had all sorts of fun discussing one group's plan to spend $1,050,000 to build a big community thrift store on South Egan Avenue on the site of the old Jensen...
View ArticleAllen Protests Thrift Store; Will Voters Respond?
[Note: this post discusses the views of Ashley Kenneth Allen, who is also the newest advertiser on the Madville Times. Readers may draw and post their own conclusions as to the accuracy and fairness of...
View ArticleWolff on Madison Thrift Store: Disappointing, But Not Worth Opposing
Madison City Commission candidate Jennifer Wolff is disappointed with the new downtown thrift store proposal: Yesterday's front page news was the new community thrift store planned for Madison. Two...
View ArticleDinner and a Movie Downtown in Sturgis!
What can Sturgis do to provide its residents with some local entertainment after all the motorcycles go home? How about turn one of their big biker saloons into a local movie house? Easyriders Saloon...
View ArticleThrift Store Developers Acquire Jensen/LAIC Property for Free
Madison's thrift store relaunched this month as an entirely private, public-subsidy-free project. The private developers began demolition of the old Jensen building this week to make way for their...
View ArticleFargo Supports Lowe’s Point on Downtown Development
In the Democratic gubernatorial candidates' forum on SDPB last Thursday, candidate Joe Lowe recommended that the Governor's Office of Economic Development redirect some of its grants from big...
View ArticleChocolate, Microbrews, Competition—Madison Main Street Looking Up!
My teetotaling heart raps double-quick at Jane Utecht's report that Madison will soon have one less place to get alcohol. (And Gaia be praised, it's not being replaced with a smut shop). Main Street's...
View ArticleWrecking Ball Coming to Madison Masonic Temple This Month
Old postcard showing Masonic Temple before widening of Highway 34. One of my true loves has died, and I could not save her. Gale Pifer reports that DeLon Mork and Randy Schaefer will demolish the old...
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