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<br />50-year-old Roseville weighs midlife
<br />makeover
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<br />. Yea,....long study could give city real downtown
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<br />ANN BAKER STAFF WRITER
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<br />While RoseviUe is a place its residents praise to the skies, it is
<br />missing one central component, and that is causing movers and
<br />shakers in the 50~year-old city to consider a serious makeover.
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<br />What's coming next for the first.ring, car-driven, postwar suburb
<br />- home to the world's first Target store and Minnesota's first
<br />McDonald's, not to mention an aging, contented. populace - is a
<br />real downtown.
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<br />It could be an old-fashioned brick plaza with tal1 buildings,
<br />fountains, outdoor markets and celebrations that attract crowds
<br />of pigeons and people.
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<br />That was an image set before Roseville's City Center Task Force
<br />this week as the 13~member group launched a year-long
<br />exploration of ways to reshape a mile~wide area flanking County
<br />Road C and Lexington Avenue into a concentrated residential.
<br />commercial-entertainment hub. The task force will issue its
<br />findings to the City Council.
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<br />The coWlciJ wants to encourage redevelopment in the area
<br />between HamIine Avenue and just past Victoria Street that
<br />includes City Hall, John Rose Oval, Veterans Park, Central Par~
<br />RoseviUe Mobile Home Park and several blocks of single~fami1y
<br />homes. It also includes Lexington Avenue running south to
<br />Minnesota 36 and the public righto{)f~way along its edges.
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<br />The conversation Thursday was sprinkled with words like
<br />"urban," "main street" and "small town," as participants named
<br />their favorite cities beyond home. Lois Sinn Lindquist picked
<br />Quebec. Craig Klausing chose Lanesboro. Other favorites
<br />included San Francisco, Vail and New Yark. All were cities with
<br />a downtown, walking areas and places to meet people.
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<br />RosevilJe developed as one of those corridors that people
<br />followed as they left the central cities, planning consultant Kim
<br />Way told the group. Its lack of a center raises the question
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