Updated 5/1/08
7th Annual Selby Ave JazzFest
The Selby Ave JazzFest won the Minneapolis St. Paul Magazine Best of the Twin Cities award for Best Neighborhood Jazz Festival. "The Selby Avenue Jazz Festival began in 2002 and has grown to become the best neighborhood jazz festival in town. Held in early September, the festival attracts an eclectic crowd from the folks who live around Selby and Milton in St. Paul all the way to the upper-crust denizens of Summit Ave. It's got just the right free-spirited vibe to keep things loose, and every year the lineup gets more impressive."
This year's JazzFest is shaping up to be a fantastic event with even more excitement and involvement.
If you'd like information about this year's event give us your e-mail and we'll let you know as we continue to set the line up and the other exciting information.
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940 Selby
The Roots on Selby building is now avalible for presale. The four units of live-work space will bring an exciting, classic style to Selby Avenue.
If you have questions please contact Art Weddington at 651-291-7704 or aweddington@selbyareacdc.org
This exciting project is filling fast so be sure to secure your space by calling now for information on this inovative building!
Visioning for the Quarter:
Continuing our efforts, we work on rebuilding the community while utilizing its assets. The Selby Area CDC,
Morning Star Baptist Church and land owners on Selby Avenue west of Dale have initiated the re-visioning
process to address development opportunities. The assets of this community- which includes Summit,
University and Rondo communities-are its rich African American heritage, the diversity, and the strength of
the neighbors.
Taking advantage of the variety of businesses, products and events the Selby Avenue Corridor has to offer will
attract tourism and bring revenue to the corridor. For this reason, the visioning looks to build a joint effort by
creating more cultural tourism on Selby that compliments St. Paul’s Restaurant Row east of Dale.
“We’ve enlisted the help of the Assembly of Architects to build a model of the envisioned corridor and to mix
and match potential development projects and business opportunities,” said Selby Area CDC Executive
Director Art Weddington. “By late summer we expect to have the model and the vision to present to the
community.”
In an effort to both celebrate the history and create destinations, area artists have been asked to recommend
public art projects that tell the story of African American contributions in the area. The art will be on display at
sites to be selected.
The efforts being worked on will finish in a vision of a place to visit with things to see and do that are
distinctly Rondo, Selby, and St. Paul, MN.
ProBid Training Program®
Selby Area CDC is working with small construction, janitorial, and landscaping businesses to help them learn how to read an RFP and successfully bid on projects, the new ProBid Training Program does just that. After two workshops with local businesses, Selby Area CDC is working to fill the need with a class designed for business owners.
Learn more about the ProBid Program here.
You can download the application for the ProBid Training Program here.
Are you a small, minority, or woman owned contractor interested in hearing about opportunities with the City of St. Paul and other opportunities within the community? Are you certified with the City of St. Paul?
Participate in a survey about businesses you would like to see on Selby.
Selby Area CDC along with Selby Area Business Association and many businesses and community members have worked over the past several years to put together the branding of Selby Avenue. See what the new banners along Selby Avenue will look like. There are five banner designs. If your business would like to incorporate these please e-mail to recieve more information.
Banner 1.
Banner 2.
Banner 3.
Banner 4.
Banner 5.
Or view them all smaller here.
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