A dragon dance, Laotian beauty queen and food. The Mekong River comes to St....
Folks familiar with big coastal cities like San Francisco and New York have probably traipsed through Chinatown, Koreatown or Japantown, popular destinations for tourists and locals alike. Well, St....
View ArticleBlogs about the Central Corridor, and food, and trains…
The Scoop went out fishing for blogs dedicated to the Central Corridor and life along University Avenue, and snagged a “Holy Mackerel!” of a dietician’s digital nightmare. Hamline-Midway resident John...
View ArticleMelvin Carter’s mixed review of Central Corridor work in Frogtown
Like everyone else in Frogtown, City Council Member Melvin Carter has been navigating around rail work that is literally tearing up streets and sidewalks in his ward. A video is here. But sometimes,...
View ArticleI-94/35E entrance to close May 18-21 in downtown St. Paul
There’s a host of Central Corridor-related street closures on the horizon, and no, they ain’t exactly pretty. Have you heard the one about the May 18-21 closure of the 35E/I-94 commons area in downtown...
View ArticleNo more left hand turns off Pelham, Franklin at University
So you’re no longer able to make left-hand turns off Franklin Avenue at University Avenue? Get used to it. With safety considerations in mind, Central Corridor folks decided to ditch left turns at both...
View ArticleFor $1.2 million, Central Corridor marketing goes “MOD”
It’s been a while in coming, but sometime on or about July 10, expect to see a new marketing push for Central Corridor businesses. This one will be a bit more targeted than the “Discover Central...
View ArticleOpen house Wednesday for Charles Avenue bike improvements
Seven traffic circles, a series of intersection improvements and other bike-friendly and pedestrian-friendly changes could be coming to Charles Avenue. City planners will host an open house on...
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Batman, hot dogs, light rail
Mary Milton serves Central Corridor workers hot dogs and bratwurst outside the Transformation Beauty Salon on Monday, Sept. 10, 2012. Batman visited the Central Corridor last week and jabbed a worker...
View ArticleProposed skyway elevator at 5th and Cedar could be big
Advocates for the disabled say they think they’ve won previous opponents to their side in a $1.4 million debate about elevator access at a downtown Central Corridor transit stop. Mark Fuhrmann, program...
View ArticleSo long, Porky’s. Episcopal Homes breaks ground for Midway Village.
“Light rail is doing exactly what we thought it could do,” said St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman, who joined former Mayor and potential resident George Latimer on Thursday, May 2 to break ground on the $45...
View ArticleLowertown is the next Wrigleyville? Clouds in Water Zen Center may move?
When is a downtown arts district no longer an arts district? When it’s taken over by excavators and hardhats, naturally. At least, that’s the concern among some Lowertown artists, past and present. On...
View ArticleVote on Southwest LRT delayed; minority advocates concerned about Cedar and...
The proposed Southwest Light Rail Transit Line from Minneapolis to Eden Praire — an extension of the Central Corridor — is about to get delayed, indefinitely at least 60 to 90 days, unless the winds...
View ArticleHomelessness, affordable housing and gentrification in St. Paul
There’s been a lot of discussion in Ramsey County and St. Paul lately about homelessness, affordable housing and gentrification, three related issues that the Scoop finds difficult but fascinating to...
View ArticleAffordable housing forum at U of M: Do first-ring suburbs have too much of it?
When light rail travels through Hopkins, affordable housing projects will likely follow. The result will draw more low-income residents and people of color to the first-ring suburb, which is already 30...
View ArticleCity Council Member Russ Stark weighs in on the Green Line’s impact on housing
On Wednesday, May 14, the Pioneer Press reported on the seeming paradox of declining home values and rent increases along the Central Corridor Light Rail line, or Green Line. Much of that increase...
View ArticleGreen Line is a fiasco, or huge success, depending upon which blogger you ask
On blogs and social media, passengers continue to dissect Metro Transit’s new Green Line, which debuted June 14. In “Strangulation on the Green Line,” a lengthy post charting the history of its...
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