St. Paul, Minnesota
Brewery/Ran-View Small-Area Study

St. Paul's Brewery/Ran-View neighborhood is a historic, working-class neighborhood of primarily single-family homes and duplexes anchored at one end by the Landmark Brewery. Technically speaking, it was in this neighborhood that St. Paul was first settled by a non-Indian, a bootlegger named Pig's Eye Parrant who ran his business from a cave in the bluff above the Mississippi River.

Conflicts between residential and long-standing heavy-industrial uses eventually led to the creation of this revitalization plan. The plan called for redevelopment of the industrial area to multi-family housing of various types and introduction of significant greenery and other design treatments. A major design component reconnected the neighborhood to its roots on the bluffs and banks of the river, with a new city park.

In addition to designing the redevelopment area, Camiros led neighborhood residents and business operators in a visioning workshop and a design charette, both of which were held in the brewery's Rathskeller. These hands-on events strongly shaped the emerging plan with the recommendations generated during them.