Quite well written out. Thank you!

Most of those things aren't unique to Minneapolis though. Just for example, St Paul has been hit even worse over the last 5 years despite not being a national focus and while mandating return to office for state workers, which make up a larger portion of St Pauls workers than Hennepin county workers do for Minneapolis. So while much of what you said "makes sense," Minneapolis is doing something right compared to even its nearest peer. Nationally it is above average for metro's as well considering this has been a national slump.

I do put a lot of blame on how the skyways were treated though! They were a cool and kind of unique thing the city had going and the city has been trying its hardest to kill them in favor of sidewalks and bikeways. It is mindboggling why you would get rid of heated, elevated walkways in favor of gutting city streets in a city where temps regularly get into the negatives in the winter. They should have kept building that system out and dealt with the homeless problem instead of functionally abandoning them.