Saint Paul’s ambitious plan to reconstruct all of its residential streets was supposed to wrap up in 2005-2006. But with about 25 years of work remaining, some City Council members are getting impatient. They had difficult questions for city engineer…
Work to correct last year’s portion of the Griggs-Scheffer street reconstruction project in Highland Park is now in full swing. Local residents met twice in August with representatives of the Saint Paul Department of Public Works and Ward 3 City…
A group of local homeowners has sued the city of Saint Paul in an attempt to block its plan to install sidewalks in the Edgcumbe Road right-of-way between Highland Parkway and Hamline Avenue. The half-mile stretch of roadway has never…
Phase one sewer work will have to be redone. The Griggs-Scheffer street reconstruction project has been a bumpy ride for local residents and Saint Paul city officials alike. Sanitary sewer work done during the project’s first phase in 2020 must…
A controversial right-of-way improvement project is moving forward with the Saint Paul City Council’s approval of the second phase of the Griggs-Scheffer street repaving and sidewalk project.The project has generated controversy on two fronts. The first is the laying of…
City dismisses residents' concerns as it prepares to obliterate a generation of investment in landscaping. The city of Saint Paul claims to treasure its neighborhoods. However, the seven homeowners on a small cul-de-sac in Highland Park have found the opposite…
Saint Paul’s decades-long effort to reconstruct its residential streets with new curbs, gutters, sidewalks, streetlights and boulevard trees will continue across the city in 2021-25. The Residential Street Vitality Program (RSVP) got underway in 1995 with a to-do list of…
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