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In 1982, the St. Paul Farmers’ Market moved to Lowertown. An institution since the late 1800s, the Farmers’ Market was an anomaly of sorts for Lowertown - it was a destination in the middle of a relatively quiet neighborhood. The market now draws 20,000 people each weekend in the summer.
In the second quarter 1998, Minnesota Communications Group and Greenspring Company approved the sale of Greenspring's catalog sales business, Rivertown Trading, to Dayton Hudson for $120 million. $90 million of the sale price would go into MPR's endowment fund, which then totaled only $19 million. Greenspring President Bill Kling and two other ...
[31] [32] The market was founded as International Marketplace [31] [33] in 2004 by Saint Paul, Minnesota entrepreneurs and real estate devlopers Toua Xiong and Nou (Vang) Xiong. [ 1 ] [ 34 ] [ 5 ] Hmong people were persecuted in their homelands following the Laotian Civil War known as the Secret War and the Xiongs wanted a place for first ...
Greenspring Company was the for-profit subsidiary of the non-profit American Public Media Group.Profits gathered from Greenspring were funneled through American Public Media Group in order to help fund Minnesota Public Radio, although Greenspring was taxed before the funds were transferred.
Apr. 22—At the wide-eyed age of 5, Paul Kamp moved into a new split-level house built by his family off St. Paul's Western Avenue, the one with the unusual door in its stairway landing. That ...
In 2018, Meijer opened Bridge Street Market, a 37,000-square-foot (3,400-square-meter) concept grocery store in Grand Rapids. [52] It was followed by four similar markets: Woodward Corner Market in Royal Oak, Michigan (2020); [53] Capital City Market in Lansing (2020); [54] Rivertown Market in Detroit (2021); [55] and Fairfax Market in ...
Feb. 9—Stan Machovec, a long-time grocer on St. Paul's West Seventh Street and friend to riverboats of the Mississippi River, died Jan. 27. He was 88. Machovec owned Machovec's Food Market in St ...
Kowalski's Markets was founded in 1983 by Jim and Mary Anne Kowalski. Their first store consisted of a Red Owl they bought on Grand Avenue in St. Paul. [3] The first Kowalski's Market was introduced in 1986 in White Bear Lake by converting another Red Owl they purchased into the Kowalski's brand.