This would be in a former prison, of course, along the St. Paul riverfront. Local officials are optimistic that turning the hoosegow into housing will be a boon to their efforts to attract more businesses and visitors to the Mississippi.
If it works, maybe it will lend credence to the idea that's been kicking around California to turn San Quentin State Prison, where Stanley Tookie Williams was executed on Tuesday, into an upscale development.
