A vacant lot. The site has a lot of history actually:
It was formerly home to Powers department store, which was a big local competitor to Dayton's. The stores were then bought by Donaldson's, another local dept. store chain(I still have shopping bags from there for some reason). Donaldson's was bought by Carson Pirie Scott...It is said that nobody liked the name change from Donaldson's, and that is what drove them out of the market. That chain left the area in the mid 90's, and this lot was cleared in 1994. Power's, Donaldson's, and Dayton's were the 3 big department stores on Nicollet(along with a couple other national chains)...and all remained open under one name or another until the mid 90s. Ah, the age of the department store. There are still a few department stores downtown, but only one flagship building remains. But I digress
http://osgoodfamily.com/powers1b.jpg
