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While I'm sure it's more profitable, I can't imagine a sand mine employs anywhere near the number of people a popular festival would on the same acreage. We're

• SirZimzim 9y ago
  I'm just surprised that there is a lack of space in Minnesota.
  • beat 9y ago
    It's not just "space", just as sand is not just "sand". It needs good highway access, as attendance is in the thousands every weekend for months. It needs water, power, and some sanitation facilities (the old festival location used porta-potties). It needs a campground. It needs to be within an hour's drive of most of the sprawling Twin Cities metro. It needs to be reasonably dry and safe in the vagaries of Minnesota summer weather. It needs cooperative zoning and regulation from the local government. It needs to be not too expensive to get into shape. It needs to be land that won't suddenly find a "more valuable" purpose anytime soon (like, say, strip mining, or building a new subdivision). Likewise, it can't really have any current residences on it, or those will need to be bought out. It's really, really complicated and difficult. They can't just plop it down anywhere.
  • kmill 9y ago
    As an approximation, anything that isn't near the big cities and that isn't unusable due to periodic flooding is going to be fertile for farming or too far away.