Summit Hill Neighborhood News and Events

The Summit Hill (sometimes referred to as Crocus Hill) neighborhood is a historic and vibrant community of homeowners, renters and the thriving East Grand Avenue strip of locally and nationally owned stores, restaurants, galleries and other businesses. Well-preserved Victorian-era dwellings and other historic architectural treasures are located throughout this nationally famous area of St. Paul (Summit Avenue was recently named one of America’s 10 Great Streets by the American Planning Association.) The pedestrian-friendly character of the neighborhood, combined with social and business networks operating throughout the neighborhood and along Grand Avenue, create a feeling of community and belonging.

(Description from livemsp.org)

For detailed demographic information, see the neighborhood profile from Minnesota Compass.

MN VIDEOS | Summit Hill Neighborhoods construct mandala-shaped community garden

By John Akre, MN Videos

Between fifty and sixty community volunteers showed up on a cloudy Saturday morning to construct a mandala-shaped community garden in St. Paul's Summit Hill Neighborhood. The garden is located on park land and the goal of the garden's founders is to "empower people through organic gardening to inspire greater self-sufficiency, sustainability, and environmental responsibility."

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Update on Grand Avenue pedestrian safety improvement proposal

By Staff, Summit Hill Association

On March 12th, representatives from Summit Hill Association, Macalester Groveland Community Council and the Grand Avenue Business Association (the “Collaborative”) took the latest step in seeking City funding to make pedestrian safety & traffic calming improvements along Grand Avenue between Hamline Avenue and Lexington Parkway in the wake of recent pedestrian deaths.

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SOUL FOOD MN | Chef Erin "Bayou" Lege brings a fresh new menu to Dixie's on Grand in St. Paul

By Cheo Smith, TC Daily Planet

Below, top to bottom: Erin Lege, Bayou Benedict, Catfish Etoufee, chicken, the Hangover, the Southern Drawl, breakfast drinks. Photos by B FRESH Photography and Media.

Dixie’s on Grand has been the Southern staple of St. Paul’s food scene since 1985. This year marks the beginning of a new era for Dixie’s with the introduction of executive chef Erin "Bayou" Lege’s menu.

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Barbary Fig: Cuisine of the Maghreb on Grand Avenue in St. Paul

By Jeremy Iggers, Iggers Digest

Chef Brahim Hadj-Moussa at Barbary Fig

I have never quite understood why the cuisine of the Maghreb — that is, north Africa west of Egypt — isn't more popular in the United States.

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GLOBAL GROCERIES | Kosher groceries are now a lot harder to get in Minnesota

By Stephanie Fox, Global Groceries

Sara Cooper, owner of Cooper's Foods at the kosher section of her market. (Photos by Stephanie Fox)

The rumors circulating among grocery store owners and observant Jews that Twin Cities Poultry had gone out of business turned out to be true. As the only kosher food distributor in the upper Midwest, their closing has left grocery stores like Cooper’s SuperValu Foods in St. Paul scrambling to find ways to fill the shelves for their customers who keep kosher.

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