Posts Tagged business
Confederacy of Chickens Inc. Plans to Convert Block E into Chicken Coop
Posted by Administrator in Local, Real Estate on June 7th, 2009
Vacancy posters and for lease signs continue to proliferate in the store windows of Block E, the soon-to-be vacant and once-ballyhooed downtown Minneapolis retail showpiece. Mall owners and city government are finding no buyers in their offer to sell the troubled retail behemoth to take-over mall entrepreneurs. Nonetheless, one development group is planning a serious offer to take over the trouble spot—the Confederacy of Chickens Inc, who plan on converting the pseudo-glitzy complex into an organic chicken coop. To borrow a bit from tradition, the confederacy plans to name their enterprise Cluck E.
“This mall is a very appropriate nurturing environment for raising healthy organic chickens,” say Confederacy representatives. “Rather than being crowded together in the industrialized chicken farms, Cluck E will give these fowl room to roam around in free-range mode, which gives opportunity for a proper chicken life-style growth.” A Confederacy of Chickens spokesperson adds, “This shopping mall architecture was designed to be conducive for small-brain creatures to thrive, so it should work well for chickens.”
Endangered Species – Hummer Dealerships
Posted by Administrator in Local on March 9th, 2009
A prominent and potent symbol of the culmination of Twentieth Century American culture – the Hummer – is disappearing from the highways and parking lots of this nation.
Inevitably, those ostentatious Hummer dealership show places that sold them will likewise become endangered roadside architecture. When these provocatively designed structures located near freeways, disintegrate into the fields, America will have lost the spirit that defined who we are – or were.
Many Hummer dealerships have closed, and their signature overtly curving up and down ramps, with their old-time timber fences, no longer display mighty Hummers humping up at their moment of climax. Instead, weeds sprout through parking lot asphalt, and wind-blown McDonald wrappers are scattered against the large glass show windows that now only reveal a history of lost ideals.
Historic preservation should step up to the plate, and rescue these Hummer Dealerships; convert these structures into Hummer Interpretive Museums, so that future generations can gain the sense of what late Twentieth Century America was all about.
