You can follow the progress through the dedicated website at, print out periodic progress reports and see videos and notices of opening events. It won’t be 100% complete for another year or two, but a few things are ready to see or open now. In May, the very first opening occurred, for one of the four parks within the site. A friend of mine, Tom B., who works in St. Paul politics and government, is a big fan of the project, being one of its earliest activists. He wrote a touching Facebook post about the opening: “Today I went to the ribbon cutting at the first park to open at Highland Bridge, the first parcel actually. It was put on my calendar as a Work Thing, and up until the moment I hit the elevators leaving City Hall I didn’t realize that it was a Me Thing. The ribbon cutting itself was exactly what you expect. Chris Tolbert and Melvin Carter did a rah rah and shouted out all the big players, but both of them did an interesting thing where they lingered on thanking the community that stepped up and fought for that hunk of land in our neighborhood. Highland Bridge – its parks and open spaces It felt like a real acknowledgement of all the screaming and hollering we did when it was still The Ford Site.
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