Target Center to Get Green Roof
Not only will the Target Center will be getting a green roof after all, it’ll be the second-largest green roof evar. The firm currently in charge of the Target Center facility assessed the needed roof replacement and estimated that a green roof was not feasible. CM Lisa Goodman said, “Wrong! Try again.” Lo and behold, a green roof is now pretty much a given.
The benefit to the green roof is three-fold.
- It reduces temperatures in our lovely downtown urban heat island.
- It manages storm water runoff.
- It lasts twice as long as a traditional tar roof.
You can wonder about a the power-wielding of our city council, or you can wonder about mandating forward-looking consideration of our environmental impact and the health of our city.
I’m curious to see how obvious the green roof will be from the ground.
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I hope it looks like that picture :)
If Sven Sundgaard’s hair was the green roof on the Target Center, that’s what that would look like.
Here is a dreary look at the current top of the Target Center.
It’ll probably look about the same in the winter.
Let me understand this. We pay for a study on the feasibility to add a green roof a two decades old money losing facility, the study comes back "not-feasible", and the city council wants to go ahead anyways? Anyone even remotely concerned we are spending money on this?