PIONEER PRESS ‘OBITUARY’: Lost art in Lowertown? – Longtime residents of St. Paul’s artists’ quarter react to changes with unease
Nigel Parry, the creator of the Lowertown Eye neighborhood forum, could be dubbed a Lowertown maven, so deep is his love of the artist community that emerged around the century-old warehouses at the edge of downtown St. Paul. Artists have been a mainstay here for decades. These days, the Lowertown Eye is having a tough time accepting all it sees. “It’s unrecognizable,” says Parry, a musician and website designer, lamenting the latest wave of brew pubs and upscale housing construction on the horizon.
