{"id":3887,"date":"2008-12-29T06:24:08","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T11:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3887"},"modified":"2008-12-28T13:33:05","modified_gmt":"2008-12-28T18:33:05","slug":"editorial-a-market-boost-for-downtown-st-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3887","title":{"rendered":"Into The Wasteland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The good news?  Downtown Saint Paul is finally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/opinion\/editorials\/36761879.html?elr=KArksc8P:Pc:UthPacyPE7iUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiU\">Egetting an honest-to-pete grocery store<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lunds is coming to downtown St. Paul. While grocery stores come and go in other parts of the city, downtown hasn&#8217;t had one in decades.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Well, the &#8220;convenience store&#8221; at 7th and Wabasha is big enough to scrape the low end of &#8220;grocery store&#8221; &#8211; but I know, they&#8217;re talking about a <em>real <\/em>grocery store.  I digress.)<\/p>\n<p>The good news?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That&#8217;s why the Lunds announcement is such great news for the city and its 14,000 downtown residents and 65,000 workers. In addition to providing long-needed access to a supermarket, the store will help boost the tax base, attract new residents and contribute to community building.<\/p>\n<p>Early this month, Lunds Food Holdings said it will build a 30,000-square-foot store as part of an $88 million mixed-use project called the Penfield.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The bad news?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The development, on 10th and Robert streets, will include a hotel and upscale apartments. Construction is scheduled to begin in the fall.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Waaaaaay <\/em>over on the wrong side of downtown.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, well.  It&#8217;s where the condos are, I guess.  And it&#8217;s good news for downtown, in any case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good news? Downtown Saint Paul is finally Egetting an honest-to-pete grocery store: Lunds is coming to downtown St. Paul. While grocery stores come and go in other parts of the city, downtown hasn&#8217;t had one in decades. (Well, the &#8220;convenience store&#8221; at 7th and Wabasha is big enough to scrape the low end of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}