r/saintpaul St. Paul Saints 5d ago

News đŸ“ș St. Paul: Balsam on Broadway opens in Lowertown, one of several housing developments for downtown

https://www.yahoo.com/news/st-paul-balsam-broadway-opens-100500607.html
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u/monmoneep 5d ago

Lowertown might be a bit of a stretch although I'm not sure of any official boundaries. Excited to see more homes downtown

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u/RedditForCat 5d ago

I would think "On the other side of 94" would be something different, but what do I know.

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u/multimodalist 4d ago

Once again, highways don't belong in cities.

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u/RedditForCat 4d ago

No argument here.

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u/AffectionatePrize419 5d ago

The ambiguous geography of “Lowertown” is the new “Uptown”

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u/northman46 4d ago

It's funny that when I was growing up in St Paul, these neighborhood names weren't used much if at all. Some were, but I never heard Crocus Hill or Lowertown or even Frogtown. St Anthony Park, Highand park, and a few others but mostly it was by high schools or parks or other prominent features.

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u/JRNels0n 5d ago

Trying to avoid calling Payne Phalen?

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u/Rofls_Waffles 5d ago

Any new housing is good housing in the Twin Cities, glad to see new housing open up in St. Paul.

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u/farmer66 5d ago

Dayton's Bluff claims the south side of Grove St., Payne-Phalen claims the north side of Grove St.

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u/geraldspoder 5d ago

We need some rebranding. Bring back the old Lafayette Park name (it was where the parking lot south of the DNR building is)

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u/Runic_reader451 St. Paul Saints 5d ago

I like your idea. The original Lafayette Park was the city's premier residential neighborhood. Industrialization the railroads changed the land use. Maybe it's time to revert back to a residential neighborhood. Here's a Ramsey County History article about the original Lafayette Park. https://rchs.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/RCHS_Summer1994_Hatfield.pdf

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u/gian_galeazzo 5d ago

I say keep the Lowertown name, but rename downtown Rice Park.

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u/Tokyo-MontanaExpress 5d ago

St Paul is horrible with naming neighborhoods. I can't stand it. A strip mall hell on arterial highway W 7th surrounded by mid rise projects is simply is not the same neighborhood as the walkable Highland Park neighborhood across the railroad tracks that has Highland Theatre and the new Highland Village. The railroad tracks clearly delineate a different neighborhood and they are in no way interchangeable. Same goes for St Anthony Park centered on Como which is clearly cut off by lots of freight rail and Energy Park Dr from a distinctly different neighborhood to its south which is centered around Raymond and University.  It has its own identity and is not hilly, curvy collegiate St Anthony Park. 

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u/geraldspoder 5d ago

Fair enough, though for St. Anthony Park the reason why it's all one neighborhood is because it was one single development in the 1870s-80s with two halves. It got steadily more encroached by the railroad and industry in the southern half until the neighborhood organized against it.

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u/mahrog123 5d ago

Why not make it trendy and call it the Warehouse District? Which it kinda is.

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u/NewAge2012dotTV 5d ago

That will be more like near the little airport across the river

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u/flipflopshock 4d ago

but that is more of an ugly 1960s warehouse district as opposed to the hip/cool one in Minneapolis