The Saint Paul Condo Blog

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I know, it's not the ideal weather for "crawling" for art, but it helps support all of the local artists in town.

Check out www.StPaulArtCrawl.org for details

Starting in July, there will actually be uniform hours for the skyway grid!  Starting in just a few months, the skyway will be open until 2am.  This doesn't mean you will be able to get into the system that late, but if you were in a building that was connected, you can actually travel home from the bars without getting locked in a building.

There used to be uniform hours when the skyways first opened 20 some years ago, but like a lot of things in Downtown, the City neglected it.  Buildings started to just randomly shutting their place off and nothing was done about it.

The district council which represents downtown, starting to get complaints from residents that they were getting trapped in the grid, and it was impossible to know when a building would be locking the doors for the night.  It was nice to see the city actually take the issue up.

The bonding bill that included many projects for Saint Paul found the Axe yesterday, as our governor used his line-item veto power to cut just about all of the St Paul projects from the bill.

The biggest loser in my opinion is the proposed Central Corridor Light Rail Line that would have connected Minneapolis to Downtown Saint Paul. This connection would have greatly helped property values along the route, but especially here in downtown.  There are a lot of people who work in the "other" downtown and live here in St Paul.  It was slated for operation as soon as 2014, but that is likely out the window now.  Just about all of the major public transportation items were cut from the bonding bill.  It kind of makes me wonder "What did we do wrong"?

From TwinCities.com

A 20-year-old man is in critical condition after falling nine stories from downtown St. Paul's Galtier Plaza in an attempted suicide.

The St. Paul Police Department was called to the residential, office and retail building at 4:36 p.m. Sunday on reports that someone jumped from the tower on Jackson and Sixth Streets. The man, who is being treated at Regions Hospital in St. Paul, jumped from a 10th floor patio and landed on scaffolding from construction located one story above the sidewalk.

The man is believed to be a resident at Galtier Plaza, according to police.

Galtier is home to both the Airye Condominiums and On The Park condos, this incident took place below Airye, in the rental apartments.  I believe the scaffolding the young man landed on was set up for the buildings large glass repair.  The scaffolding likely saved his life.

Hopefully, he can get the help he needs!

OK, it's April 1st and after hearing on the radio that Ely, MN was being sold to the Canadians, I figured I had to at least attempt an April's Fools Day joke.

Now... Back to normal...

March was another banner month for us here at YourStPaulHome.com.  Over 22,000 page views, another record for site traffic.  I hope the traffic keeps up, because I've been very busy.  It's a good feeling to be busy when the market is supposedly down.

In the next few weeks (time permitting) I will be posting some price per square foot comparisons from years past.  I'll try to go a few years back to give some history on pricing for downtown.  I thought I would do the comparison by building again, since each building is almost a completely unique neighborhood.

Happy April Fools Day!