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Grow Down Downtown program highlights local vendors, aims to fill vacant storefronts

5875823 · August 1, 2025
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Speakers described Grow Down Downtown as a matchmaker program linking local entrepreneurs with vacant downtown storefronts and said the effort aims to make downtown a destination for locally made goods.

A representative of the Grow Down Downtown program described the initiative as a “matchmaker” effort to connect local entrepreneurs with vacant downtown storefronts. The speaker said the program seeks to encourage people who already live in St. Paul to open small businesses downtown and to make downtown a…

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