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Finance & Commerce > Print > Culture change or fad? Twin Cities population shifts towaPage 3of 3 <br />... <br />(Submitted chart: Metropolitan Council) <br />He added that while access to transit was an <br />important factor for where his firm built the <br />Ellipse, “We still believe that the Minnesotan is really a vehicle-driven person. We’re not quite <br />there yet in terms of transit.” <br />Kevin Locke, community development director for St. Louis Park, said the city’s planning goal is <br />“to make people places and not car places. It’s not that we don’t accommodate a car — most of <br />us still drive cars. <br />“But we can do our best to focus more on the pedestrian and the residents and less on the car.” <br />Jones of Metrostudy said the “resurgence” of the multifamily rental market is “a combination of <br />the fears about the economy and with home buying.” <br />He suggests that the shift is part of a cycle. <br />“These types of cycles happen all the time — before it was more out of the city and into the far- <br />out suburbs, and now it’s moving back into the city,” Jones said. “But just when you think you’ve <br />got it all figured out, it starts to change again.” <br />Complete URL: http://finance-commerce.com/2011/09/culture-change-or-fad-twin-cities-population-shifts- <br />toward-central-core/ <br />htt://finance-commerce.com/w-content/luins/dmcsociabletoolbar/w-rint.h?=09/14/2011 <br />pppg__ppppp... <br />