Spruce Tree Centre

The Spruce Tree Centre is a building in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States.

[1] The city of Saint Paul owns the parking garage and has electric car chargers.

[7] The building was described as a model, albeit needing improvement, for transit and pedestrian supportive infrastructure on the Snelling Avenue corridor.

[9] Tax-increment financing helped fund construction, and the attached parking ramp was built with public money used bonds that were paid off in 2015.

[11] Construction began in July 1987 amid a wave of interest in redeveloping land around University Avenue and the Midway neighborhood.

[10] The building was sold for $1.5 million in 1992 to a Boston real estate company at the same time as the sale of Har Mar Mall.

[7] The Hamline-Midway and Union Park neighborhoods groups are moving to the Spruce Tree Centre in 2024.

[9] The green color of the tile was intended suggest natural elements at what is a very urban and busy intersection.

[28] A Chicago Tribune columnist described it as a 1980s version of the Emerald City that "almost forces residents to look at it".