Northfield.
First came the Target.
Then went Jacobsen's.
Then Petricka's.
Then Chapati.
Now The Ole Store (check link soon, the Star Trib closes its archives pretty quickly)
Get your Ole Roll while you can.
The expansion along the corridor around the Target to make the town look like every other urban sprawl "town" between Fairbault and St. Cloud and killing off all of the local businesses to make room for pavement and roadside franchises is pretty successful. I hope, at least, they are getting the income to stay in the town as the Target people promised when this possibility was brought up during the vote a few years ago.
On the other hand, businesses go under every day.
Center of the Universe?
The Ideal Cafe?
I'm sure that other Northfield businesses have been beloved and folded, and it wasn't because of the big bad bully businesses.
I guess you can't stand in the way of economic "progress" just to remain "quaint".
Posted by silsby at December 21, 2004 09:56 AMThe Ideal Cafe.
I haven't thought of that incarnation of that location in a long time. Some of my best memories of freshman year took place there.
Posted by Xayide at December 21, 2004 11:01 AM