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...downtown Minneapolis was deteriorating in the 1950s, the Daytons elected to keep their huge department store there rather than move it to the suburbs. Cooperating with the city, they turned Nicollet Avenue into a shopping mall and built a system of skyways linking the buildings along the street. The project, spearheaded by Donald C. Dayton, 58, has stimulated more than $200 million in new downtown construction, reversing the familiar urban pattern of decay and turning the area into a bright and active commercial district. The new 51-story IDS tower, designed by Philip Johnson, is the tallest and most distinguished...
Yamasaki began with an awkward lot, bisected by Nicollet Avenue, scheduled to become a pedestrian mall ending in a park. Instead of obstructing the vista, Yamasaki resolved to enhance it. But how? He considered lifting the structure on stilts ("It would have been like going through a tunnel"), putting in an archway ("But that would have cut the building up"), moving it off to one side ("Then the building would not have been visible from Nicollet Avenue, and we had a beautiful location...
Along San Francisco's Grant Avenue, Manhattan's Fifth, Minneapolis' Nicollet Avenue, Dallas' Main Street, last-minute Christmas shoppers jostled and shoved. But sometimes they forgot to push, and pressed like moths to the lighted store windows, lost in synthetic wonderlands behind the glass...
...last week, as their symphony rounded out its season with an appeal for funds to balance the $250,000 annual budget, they thanked their stars for it. "Never mind my dignity," said Conductor Mitropoulos. "If necessary to continue the orchestra, I'll take the men to Seventh and Nicollet [heart of downtown Minneapolis] and play there and then pass...
That was not necessary. But one night last week, in the Nicollet Hotel's ballroom, Conductor Mitropoulos and his men played a concert of musical burlesques and waltzes by Johann Strauss. Then, sure enough, they did pass the hat-to some 400 of Minneapolis' solider citizens. Into it dropped $20,000 and promises that the Minneapolis Symphony's annual guarantee fund of $130,000 would be fully subscribed for the next two years...