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Finance & Commerce > Print > Culture change or fad? Twin Cities population shifts tower... Page 3 of 3 He added that while access to transit was an (Submitted ch�aart: Metropolitan Council) important factor, for where his firm built the Ellipse, " e still believe that the Mlinnesotan is really a vehicle-driven person. We're not quite there yet in terms of transit." Kevin Locke, community development director for St. Louis Park, said the city's planning goal is "'to make people places and not car places. It's not that we don't accommodate a car — most of us still drive cars. '"But we can do our best to focus more on the ped,.-qRTE.,TmIF.,TmTqMmTAffF-Z-Tqr4"mlK-I.FTiTgErzr7Mro Mm ]ones of Mletrostudy said the "resurgence" of the multifamily rental market is "a combination of the fears about the economy and with home buying." He suggests that the shift is part of a cycle. "These types of cycles happen all the time — before it was more out of the city and into the far- out suburbs, and now it's moving back into the city," ]ones said. '"But just when you think you've got it all figured out, it starts to change again." Complete URL: http://finance-commer,ce.,comi/2011/09/cullture-change-or-fadl -twin-cities-population-shifts- tomwar'd-centr,al-core/ http. Hfinnce- commerce. com/wp -c ontent/p lugins/dmc—s o ciab le—to o lb ar/wp -print.php?p—... 09/14/2011