Central Corridor
Central Corridor homes featured in Minneapolis & St. Paul Home Tour April 28 and 29
“Our property values are going to go back up. And our transportation expense is going to go down. This is our ticket,” Joanne Nguyen declared during a tour of 749 University Avenue, a duplex renovated through the Greater Frogtown Community Development Corporation (GFCDC). “With this light rail, our property values are already going up.MORE »
Central Corridor will change bus routes up and down the line, across Minneapolis, St. Paul
A series of public meetings that ended in mid-March launched discussion of changes to bus routes in the Twin Cities, which will take effect in 2014 with the opening of the Central Corridor light rail line.MORE »
Second Central Corridor business forum focuses on March 1 start date, scheduling and street closings
While the first Central Corridor business-to-business forum focused on the concerns and strategies of local businesses along University Ave., the second part of the forum held on February 15 at the Brownstone Building shifted gears toward scheduling logMORE »
University Avenue businesses talk to each other, plan for coming Central Corridor construction season
Phase two of Central Corridor construction begins this March between Hamline Ave. and Rice St. In an attempt to prevent the failures seen last year, the City of St.MORE »
Central Corridor failures
Business owners along University Avenue were right: Central Corridor construction failed in big ways and the failures were denied and covered up during the construction season. That's the message from MPR's just-published investigation and from a St. Paul court ruling this week.MORE »
St. Paul's Sunday's Best Boutique pledges to help children with cancer
Phyllis Gilliam's shop is filled with hats on every wall, floor to ceiling.MORE »
ST. PAUL NOTES | Caribe, Central Corridor construction and cash mobs
Central Corridor construction has been hard on a lot of on- and near-University Avenue businesses, among them the spot of color and sunshine that is Caribe Caribbean Bistro at 791 Raymond Avenue, just north of University. Caribe's mango and cheese empanadillas and mofongo taste like a little bit of winter vacation in the sun, without paying airfare.MORE »
Central Corridor construction impacts small businesses
As the Central Corridor light rail-transit line construction continues, small businesses along University and Washington Avenues have been deeply impacted, business owners and community leaders said at a November 23 gathering at Rondo Community Outreach Library in St. Paul.MORE »
Stumbling into the fun? St. Paul project granted $750,000 to "Irrigate" the Central Corridor with art
Deep in the throes of construction, the Central Corridor route along University Avenue in St. Paul is a zone that many Twin Cities residents have been avoiding for the past several months. A new project funded by a national initiative aims to change that—both now and later—with the help of local artists. The project is, appropriately, called Irrigate.MORE »
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