The Saint Paul Condo Blog

This past Thursday night, my wife and I got all gussied up to attend the 13th annual Millard Fillmore dinner, Saint Paul's "Town Hall" dinner.  We were there representing the Farmers Market Flats project we are working on in Lowertown.  The night starts off with lots of displays of different projects or events that are happening in and around the Mississippi River.  Then dinner is served in the Grand Ballroom of the RiverCenter.  Don Shebly was there as kind of the recurring MC of the event.  Chris Coleman, our mayor was also there talking about the important work that the Saint Paul Riverfront Corporation does.

The dinner was packed, over 1000 people showed up. This was my second year attending and I plan on making this an annual tradition for us at The Kleppe Group.  Part of the fun of the event is looking through all of the display booths that are set up (this part is free for anyone to attend).  I found possibly the most interesting project I have seen in years call River Cities Condos (More on that later).  Some of the other interesting things there was the plans for the coming light rail.  They plan on starting construction in 2010 with service beginning in 2014, not that far away!  Other interesting things to note - Raspberry Island is getting a facelift this year, Chestnut Park (the park itself, not the condos) should start construction, and a new high tech company is relocating to Saint Paul, which will bring in about 200 new jobs.

I left my camera at home, so I am hoping to find pictures of the dinner from other people who attended.  If I find some, I will add them ;)