I'm dreaming and reaching for the stars here, but I think that somehow expanding the skywalk all the way to the Moorhead Center Mall could work wonders in so many ways:

1. It would provide a much larger indoor walking area for people who like the riverwalk view but can't really enjoy the riverwalk during either winter or flood seasons.

2. It would make for a defining feature of the area (just imagine being able to state that the two city halls cooperate so well together than they even built a walkway between them).

3. It would help expand the usable downtown retail space opportunities in the winter (much of this expansion would leave open areas in which shops could be added, in essence connecting the Black Building and the Moorhead Center Mall together into a supermall, as it were), making it so that people could come to downtown for the same reasons that the go to the West Acres Mall: lots of things to see and do; yet it would also offer something that West Acres can't offer: a beautiful and safe view of the river, from above it.