The Hamline-Midway neighborhood, designated as District Council 11 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is home to more than 12,000 people from a great variety of backgrounds and socioeconomic levels. In addition to hosting more than 5,000 housing units, it hosts major commercial corridors and numerous industrial and commercial uses. It is traversed or bounded by major streets and roadways including Snelling Avenue, University Avenue, Lexington Parkway, and Pierce Butler Route.
In early 2020 neighborhood residents, business owners, and community leaders began a process to gather community guidance for the neighborhood's future.
CDG was hired to work with the information already gathered by community members, analyze that information and existing conditions, and develop a set of best-practices recommendations and strategies to guide the neighborhood's future.
Developed through a multi-year community process involving hundreds of residents and neighborhood volunteers, the new Hamline-Midway Neighborhood Plan was submitted to the City of Saint Paul to guide its official policies for the area.