The Saint Paul Condo Blog

This has been floating around for about two weeks, the possibility of a Lund's in Downtown.  The paper reported today that the Penfield development, the City, and Lund's are talking about the possibility of adding a Lund's to Downtown.  The early plan sounds like they would nix the slow selling, multilevel, million dollar townhomes that front Robert Street.  This would only remove about six condos from the overall project, but a huge added selling point, and one of the larger stumbling blocks for condo sales in general.

I'm sure the sales at the Penfield would really heat up if they could come to terms with Lund's.  The article in the paper also mentioned that there are already two other smaller grocery stores in downtown, I nearly fell off my chair laughing this morning when I read that!  Calling those small markets grocery stores is a horrible choice of words.  The two stores are more closely related to a Super America with no gas pumps than a grocery store!

Would a Lund's find a large enough customer base in Downtown?  That is a better question than I can answer, plus I am highly addicted to the Super Target in West Saint Paul.  My gut tells me that we would need more high-end condos to have a Lund's or its equivalent.  Would the 300 condos the Penfield bring do the trick?  Time will tell.