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The owners, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, are interested in your ideas. The late restaurant pioneer Reiko Weston's Japanese fine dining establishment in downtown Minneapolis on the riverfront near the Stone Arch bridge is long gone, boarded and mouldering.

And now the Park Board is interested in plans for the 

 since it once again has control over the site.

That's after the Park Board prevailed recently in a courtroom tussle over a failed development plan and a lawsuit from an unhappy developer.

Park Board officials say they're still open to a private development pitch, but they are also interested in other possibilities.

What about a National Park Service visitor center, or another restaurant, they ask?

What do visitors to the The Cities think?

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Restaurant pioneer Reiko Weston's Japanese fine dining establishment is long gone, boarded and mouldering.

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