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Item $50K in 50 days heating up in Crookston(University of Minnesota Crookston, 2007-05-01) Tollefson, ElizabethItem Aiming Higher: East Side Work Resource Hub Evaluation(2000) Davis, LauraItem Blandin Foundation Grant Supports Entrepreneur Program for Northwest Minnesota(University of Minnesota Crookston, 2008-05-02) Landsverk, Michelle; Tollefson, ElizabethItem Christine Anderson hired as Small Business Specialist and Consultant for SBDC(University of Minnesota Crookston, 2018-05-02) Tollefson, ElizabethItem City Banners Recognize UMC Centennial(University of Minnesota Crookston, 2005-10-10) Lemos, KristaItem Current, Planned, Pending, and Potential Development in Northeast Minneapolis(2006) Peterson, AndreaItem Developing resources: industry, policy, and memory on the post-industrial Iron Range.(2009-07) Manuel, Jeffrey ThomasThis dissertation describes the history of the Lake Superior iron mining district, or Iron Range, as it battled against economic decline in the twentieth century. The study addresses four main points significant for historians of the modern United States. First, the Iron Range's struggle with decline offers a useful vantage point for understanding the interconnected role of deindustrialization and liberalism in the late twentieth century. On the Iron Range, politicians at the local, state, and federal level committed themselves to active government involvement in the economic health of the region and especially the iron mining industry. Through high wage, unionized mining jobs, liberal politicians expected that Iron Range residents would continue to support their ambitious plans for active government involvement in social and economic life. Deindustrialization undercut this alliance in a way that liberals and Iron Range residents did not anticipate. As globalization and automation reshaped the iron mining industry, liberal politicians found that their policy tool kits contained few remedies for long-term industrial decline. They had surprisingly few answers for residents of the Iron Range facing shutdowns and layoffs. Conversely, deindustrialization revealed the pragmatic core of many working class Americans' commitment to liberalism. Iron Range miners supported Minnesota's DFL liberals precisely because of the economic benefits liberalism offered to them. Industrial liberalism, it turned out, was built on a foundation of industrial growth. When that growth ended on the Iron Range, politicians and residents worked diligently to maintain their previous political patterns, but the alliance of industrial liberalism gradually eroded as the twentieth century wore on and industrial decline continued. The Iron Range has not followed the now familiar pattern of industrial workers moving from left to right in the late twentieth century, but the politics of the Iron Range suggest a more complicated transition away from industrial liberalism. The Iron Range's response to industrial decline also suggests how the predominant policy response to deindustrialization, economic development policy, was enacted as a local response to national and global problems in the twentieth century. The Iron Range and the state of Minnesota made a concerted effort to avoid the fate of many other industrial regions suffering from decline in the postwar era. In many respects, the Iron Range was unusually successful in fending off the blight of deindustrialization. It retained jobs--often at great public cost--and avoided the fate that befell smaller cities dependent on the steel industry. The Iron Range thus offers an example of the possibilities inherent in vigorous economic development policy during the postwar era. If local and state governments carefully managed their resources and spent enough public money, it was indeed possible to keep industrial jobs alive and fend off the worst effects of deindustrialization. The Iron Range's success with economic development, however, also illustrates the limits of local economic development efforts in responding to what was ultimately a global phenomenon. Despite the earnest efforts of economic development professionals on the Iron Range, it was ultimately impossible to reverse the iron mining industry's increasing automation and globalization during the second half of the twentieth century. It is impossible to separate deindustrialization and technological change in the postwar history of the Iron Range. More than any other factor, technical innovation in the mining industry displaced jobs throughout the twentieth century. Work was increasingly shifted from human laborers to machines through automation. The taconite industry offers the starkest example of how automation--and technological change in general--was a double-edged sword for the Iron Range. On the one hand, the taconite industry opened up vast new deposits for use as iron ore, likely prolonging the life of the Iron Range's mineral deposits by many years. On the other hand, the taconite industry could only become a reality by deconstructing the existing natural ore mining industry. Through technical innovation and the rhetoric of depletion, Edward W. Davis simultaneously constructed the taconite industry and dismantled the natural ore mining business. Touting taconite as a technological miracle to save a depressed Iron Range, scientists and engineers often ignored the destructive work that accompanied their creation. In a larger sense, both industrial regions and labor historians have yet to grapple with the complicated implications of technological change. In much economic development literature, for example, there is still hope that "high-tech" miracles will revive sagging rural economies or that new communication technologies will erase inequalities of distance and capital. Additionally, historians of labor and industry have often downplayed the central role of technological change and automation in reorganizing patterns of work throughout the twentieth century. Finally, the Iron Range's attempt to promote cultural tourism and particularly heritage travel based on mining's history raises thorny questions about the role of history and heritage in depoliticizing industrial change. On the Iron Range, history became a vehicle for moving deindustrialization out of the realm of politics and into an apolitical realm of nostalgia. In museums such as Ironworld, mining's history was simultaneously celebrated and foreclosed as a possible future for the Iron Range. The heritage professionals and historians who created this romanticized story of the Iron Range were not malicious. They were usually driven by a desire to honor and celebrate the lives of hard-working immigrants and the rich communities they created in a harsh landscape. But historical interpretations have consequences and one consequence of their interpretation was to depoliticize industrial change in northeast Minnesota.Item Downtown Saint Paul Retail/Commercial Inventory(2004) Schaffer, BrianItem Economic Development Administration University Center for Minnesota Located at U of M, Crookston Partners on $4.7 million Grant to Enhance Broadband Technology in Rural Minnesota(University of Minnesota Crookston, 2010-03-30) Tollefson, ElizabethItem EDA Center at the U of M Crookston Announces Five Technical Assistance Requests to Comprise 2009 Work Plan(University of Minnesota Crookston, 2009-04-13) Tollefson, ElizabethItem Essays on Property Values and Urban Corridors(2016-05) Ko, KateThis dissertation contains three essays that are related to property values and urban corridors. Urban corridors are loosely defined as public infrastructures that promote economic activities. The first essay describes a procedure for estimating household willingness to pay (WTP) for housing and location attributes using a hedonic pricing model of property values with spatial autocorrelation. To model taste heterogeneity, I consider household-specific utility coefficients for parcel-level attributes. The application provides a way to determine the price impact of urban corridors on residential homes. In particular, separate analyses are used for single-family and multifamily parcels in Minneapolis. Ultimately, this essay addresses the question of how much do households residing in different types of properties value different neighborhood development and housing characteristics. The other two essays involve applications of the hedonic price model to light rail transit (LRT). Light rail transit (LRT) alignments are chosen because there are multiple transit extensions planned for the Twin Cities region.The second essays are coauthored by Ed Goetz and Aaron Hagar. Together, we analyze the property value impacts of the Minneapolis Blue Line LRT. Impacts are assessed in terms of the accessibility effect of proximity to an LRT station and the nuisance eect of proximity to the LRT track. We estimate the proximity effect on sales prices for single-family and multifamily homes using parcel data predating construction and postdating completion of the line. The findings confirm our expectations about the differential impacts of light rail completion and location. Accounting for regional fluctuations in the housing markets, we find thehousing premiums generated after completion of the line. Using parcel data from Saint Paul, Minnesota, a study of the residential property value impact of the Metro Green LRT is conducted. The goal of the third essay pa- per is to test for benefit transfer of results found in previous studies that assess the property value impact of the Metro Blue Line LRT. The essay compares the property value impacts in Saint Paul and those found in Minneapolis. The found similarities in return of investment specific to station area economic development can inform regional transportation planning and funding strategies that concern value capture.Item The Future of Our Farmland: An Agricultural Inventory for Scott County, Minnesota(Minneapolis: Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, 2009) Aitchison, KateItem Harrison Glenwood Avenue Planning.(2002) Minneapolis Neighborhood Information SystemItem Job Disparities and Economic Development Opportunities(2006) Cunningham, YolandaItem Little Mekong Business District: Economic Development Strategies(Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, 2014-05-08) Hampton, Kadence; Jiang, Tuo; Oh, Seunghoon; Vang, AddisonItem New University of Minnesota 'Driven to Discover' campaign aims to increase private support(University of Minnesota Crookston, 2012-09-24) Tollefson, ElizabethItem Phalen Corridor Initiative Report: Summary of 1998 Neighborhood Visits(1999) Gormley, Kevin J.Item Phalen Corridor Initiative Report: Summary of 1998 Neighborhood Visits(1999) Gormley, Kevin J.Item Phalen Corridor Initiative Report: Summary of Working Group Meetings(1999) Gormley, Kevin J.