I’m back in town and have started rambling through the skyways again during my lunch break. New stuff around every corner it seems, a Taco Johns here, the Subway has moved there, and new branches and arteries spring up all over. The skyway map kind of looks like an odd sort of circulatory system, with the people moving around like blood cells, and at night, the bloodflow slows down as only a few people move back and forth. There is still traffic above ground level all through the night, at any given hour in downtown. If you could see through all the walls, make all the walls invisible, what would it look like downtown? How many people are in the office buildings at 12? at 1? at 3 in the morning? More soon as condo after condo springs up. People having their homes downtown, what a concept. The skyway is your yard, and your neighbour is a business office. I’ve always wondered what it would be like to live upstairs from some sort of shop, a coffeeshop or something, but living downtown, you’d be upstairs or next door from just about everything. Once they put in a grocery store connected to the skyway, you could just about never leave controlled circulation if you didn’t want to. It would make getting to the park a bit difficult, I suppose. There isn’t much in the way of greenery inside in downtown Minneapolis. Saint Paul does have an indoor garden, I think. Or at least they did. I wonder if it’s still there.

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