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Resurrecting the light rail

By James Nord & Katherine Lymn, The Minnesota Daily

Upon its completion in 2014, the Central Corridor Light Rail Transit line will reconnect the Twin Cities in a way that has been missing for 60 years.  MORE »

Central Corridor businesses focus on parking loss

By Sheila Regan, TC Daily Planet

UPDATED 1/27/10 AT 10 PM

Members of University Avenue Business Association (UABA), meeting last week to problem-solve around parking issues raised by the Central Corridor Light Rail Line, discussed ideas ranging from having a shuttle to creating a bump in private land for parking to buying vacant lots that several businesses could share.  MORE »

Saigon Restaurant and the Future of News

By TC Daily Planet

How is this for serendipity: I was working on a presentation on the future of community media that I am giving next week at a conference called Images and Voices of Hope and I decided to take a break for lunch with my friend Ron at the Saigon Restaurant in St. Paul.MORE »

News Day: Movers and shakers / Fong Lee update / Building in Shadow Falls / Animal news / more

By Mary Turck, News Day blog
Movers and shakers on the move Lois Quam is leaving Piper Jaffray & Co. after less than two years to start a , reports the Strib. Quam plans to start a business incubator for start-ups in health care and green technology, building on connections with Norway and its clean-energy technology.MORE »

Need for action, unified voice is focus of Central Corridor Summit

By Nathaniel Minor, TC Daily Planet
When community groups met March 7 and 8 at the Central Corridor Resource Center on University Avenue to discuss the impending light rail system, they had a single goal in mind:
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Come to the Summit

By Mary Turck, TC Daily Planet
Community organizers from more than a dozen groups will host the Central Corridor Summit this weekend, focusing on a range of community concerns about the Central Corridor project.MORE »

St. Paul University Avenue businesses discuss parking cuts

By Sadie Lundquist, TC Daily Planet
One thousand and three. That’s the number of parking spaces the Metropolitan Council is proposing to cut along University Avenue to make room for the Central Corridor light rail line.MORE »
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