Meet the Team
Founder & Chief Executive Webmaster
Built the firm in 1998 from a single booth at Mickey’s Diner. Has been crowned Queen of the Snows twice and kept the sash both times. Final say on everything, including whether you are “from here.”
Director of Being Here First
Reminds clients, vendors and waitstaff that Saint Paul was a city before Minneapolis. Once explained it to a Minneapolis tour group, uninvited, for forty minutes.
VP, Wayfinding
The only employee who can reliably get from Seventh Street to Seventh Street. Leads our quarterly skyway orientation, which takes place at 9:05 PM, after it closes.
Head of Night Plow Route Compliance
Has moved her car 3,114 times. Has been towed 3,115 times. Will not discuss the extra one.
Intern (since 2004)
Moved here from Minneapolis “for a year.” Still says “St. Paul” with a period. Will be considered for promotion once he stops calling it “the Twin Cities” as though it is one place.
About Our Name
Lowertown is named for the Lower Landing, on the Mississippi, where the steamboats tied up. In the steamboat days, Saint Paul was as far up the river as most of them went. There was a waterfall in the way, in Minneapolis. That is not why they stopped.
“Lower” is a geographic term. It is not a ranking. We have a separate ranking.