Sep 26, 2024 - Culture
Alex's thought bubble: Minneapolis vs. Charlotte
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The Axios Charlotte team has spent the last few days with our Axios Local colleagues in downtown Minneapolis. It's a nice city and has inspired some ideas for me to bring back to Charlotte:
- I'm a big fan of that Mississippi River. I'm joining the turn-277-into-a-river club. We can use 10% of the transit sales tax for water taxis to get around. That still leaves a good amount for roads and rail.
- Charlotte needs a quirky, weird invention. Minnesota, the birthplace of Spam, has Spam merch in the MSP airport. We need something like that. I don't know what it is yet, but y'all will figure it out.
- Yeah, yeah, Mall of America has a SpongeBob rollercoaster. But SouthPark is just as good a mall, if not better. Make SouthPark a landmark. We'll bring in tons of extra tourism revenue for the city. I'll be in touch with the Historic Landmarks Commission and Simons about this.
- The connectivity here in Minneapolis is on another level. Both the transit and the buildings are connected via sky bridges. Unfortunately, I'm not sure Charlotte is capable of such logistics.