What most people don’t realize about downtown St. Paul’s woes

What most people don’t realize about downtown St. Paul’s woes

Once again, people are fretting about the state of downtown St. Paul and, given the litany of bad news, concern is warranted. There’s the closing of the last grocery store, the abandonment of a key office tower and the slow drip exodus of businesses, on top of the usual urban complaints. On the other hand, people have been worried about downtown St. Paul since at least the late 19th century. Downtown St. Paul has been dead, dying or, at the very…