St. Paul's Maverick Dave Thune Riding into Retirement

Perhaps the best tribute to Thune’s political savvy, deal-making skills and never-say-die attitude is the $125 million project by Plymouth-based developer Dominium that transformed the abandoned Schmidt brewery off W. 7th Street into affordable housing for artists.

Thune spent his entire council career keeping the wrecking ball from the iconic castle-like brewery, trying to get the city to buy it and constantly scouting new uses for it. He marked its reopening last year as the Schmidt Artist Lofts as one of his proudest moments.

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