Plan projects more modest urban village around soccer stadium Potential changes to the development of the largely vacant “superblock” around the Allianz Field Major League Soccer stadium in Saint Paul’s Midway area are outlined in an update of the alternative…
Local food shelves are facing a perfect storm of price increases and supply chain problems as they struggle to provide food for a growing number of people who, like them, are having trouble keeping their larders stocked. The food shelves…
Guitarist Jeff Ray and harmonica player “Hurricane” Harold Tremblay met in 2009 when Ray was playing a solo gig at J.S. Bean Factory on Randolph Avenue. “I heard him and asked him to be on my show,” recalled Tremblay, host…
Our place in the sun I read with interest your article about plans for a solar array atop Area C at the former Ford Plant (MyVillager, March 9). Hopefully, the array would not inhibit the necessary cleanup of the toxic…
Metro Transit plans to suspend service on 16 bus routes and make changes to dozens of others beginning December 4 as it faces a driver shortage and a decline in transit ridership.Longtime local bus Routes 16, 84 and 134 are…
The Saint Paul City Council approved a $457,000 allocation on November 3 from the Great River Passage Conservancy to design a new Mississippi River education center at Watergate Marina and Crosby Farm Regional Park. The project has been on the…
Midway Center is no more. A demolition permit for what remained of the 1950s-era shopping center was issued on September 16, and a wrecking crew swung into action on September 20, reducing the building to rubble later that week. Cleanup…
Redevelopment of the old Midway Center property took two steps forward on August 25 with the Saint Paul City Council’s approval of an expanded tax increment financing (TIF) district and its order that the shopping center’s fire-damaged east wing be…
Midsummer Happening celebrates new murals in the Zone. Despite the limitations imposed by COVID-19, Saint Paul’s Creative Enterprise Zone (CEZ) has expanded its presence and impact over the last 18 months in the city’s West Midway neighborhood.“We increased capacity and…
Eight Moon, a graphic design and marketing agency, has moved from Minneapolis to Saint Paul’s Creative Enterprise Zone into a space in Vandalia Tower, 550 N. Vandalia St., Suite 301. The company is owned by president Megan Junius of Summit-University.…
Apartment towers may rise beside stadium$120M project would include a third building with retail, office spaceBy Jane McClureFour years after the St. Paul City Council adopted a master plan for redeveloping the blocks surrounding the new Major League Soccer stadium…
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