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<br /> DAWN VILLELLA/PIONEER PRES:
<br /> It's another morning of what Don Ratziaff 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 oul
<br /> how to get others to come downtown Just to socialize.Some doubt that a$3 million development plan Is the answer.
<br /> Downtown Blues
<br /> very morning, old-timers But not everything downtown works as IF YOU GO
<br /> Rosemount's gather at Ratzlaffs garage in well. The Champion Auto store has sat
<br /> downtown Rosemount to shoot vacant for several months and is still •WHAT: Open
<br /> house on
<br /> downtown has fallen the breeze. They arrive early covered in ugly fluorescent signs. Citizens
<br /> and help themselves to black say some buildings need major renovation Rosemount's
<br /> rosed
<br /> on hard times as coffee in the corner of the tiny office in or should be torn down. The whole area downtown
<br /> the service station with mustard-colored needs more restaurants, shops and places
<br /> cinder block walls. There isn't to hang out, according to some streetscape plan
<br /> businesses on nearby enough room for chairs, so they BY AMY residents. •WHEN: 4:30
<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 like nobody cares about it Hall, 2875 145th
<br /> 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 with new
<br /> and history. While Rosemount is growing street lights, fencing- and trees, among
<br /> facelift can lure and changing fast — its population of other things. It's one of many suburbs
<br /> about 14,500 is expected to double in the that are trying to invigorate old down-
<br /> shoppersback. next 20 years — its downtown is still the towns or create new ones.
<br /> kind of place where Don Ratzlaff knows
<br /> all his customers'names. DOWNTOWN CONTINUED ON 2B ►
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