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<br /> DAWN vILLELLA.PIONEER PRES:
<br /> It's another morning of what Don Ratzlaff calls"useless conversation and morning coffee at his service station in Rosemount. From left, Fell:
<br /> Kropelnicki, Jerry Fluegel, Dave Sparks and Ratzlaff shoot the breeze at the station in downtown Rosemount. The city is trying to figure ou
<br /> how to get others to come downtown just to socialize.Some doubt that a S3 million development plan is the answer.
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<br /> very morning, old-timers But not everything downtown works as IF YOU GO
<br /> Rosemount'sgather at Ratzlaff's garage in well. The Champion Auto store has sat
<br /> downtown Rosemount to shoot vacant for several months and is still 'WHAT: Open
<br /> downtown has fallen the breeze. They arrive early :, covered in ugly fluorescent signs. Citizens house on
<br /> and help. themselves to black :say some buildings need_maior renovation Rosemount's
<br /> coffee in the corner of the tiny office in or should be torn down. The whole'area proposed
<br /> on 12ard times as the service station with mustard-colored needs more restaurants, shops and places downtown
<br /> ' cinder block, walls. There isn't - to hang out, according to some streetscape plan
<br /> businesses on nearbyBY AMY residents. •WHEN:4:30
<br /> enough room for' chairs, so they ,
<br /> lean up against shelves, which SHERMAN > "It's kind of shabby," said p.m.today
<br /> thoroughfares boom. are patched with duct tape. Laura Andrews, a resident. "It •WHERE: City
<br /> The garage, owned by the STAFF WRITER feels likenobodycares about it Hall,2875 145th
<br /> 0 But residents question same family since 1941, is too much." St.W.
<br /> symbolic of much of this small down- Rosemount is considering a $3 million
<br /> whether a $3 million town. It isn't pretty, but it's got character project to spruce up downtown wi 1 new
<br /> and history. While Rosemount is growing stree iggiffs, ening`an tees, among
<br /> facelift can lure and changing fast its population of otner things. It's one of many suburbs
<br /> about 14,500 is expected to double in the that are trying to invigorate old down-
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<br /> ers back next 20 years — its downtown is still the towns or create new ones.
<br /> pp kind of place where Don Ratzlaff knows
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<br /> all his customers'names.
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