CEZ Director Joins Tech & Innovation Steering Committee
The CEZ’s executive director, Angela Casselton, has joined the steering committee of Full Stack St. Paul, a public-private collaboration “leveraging the power of tech and innovation to drive equitable, resilient economic development in Saint Paul.”
CEZ Elects New Board Chair
Renee Spillum succeeds current Chair and CEZ Founder, Catherine Reid Day, who will remain with the organization as Chair Emerita.
CEZ Names New Executive Director
Angela Casselton, who started with the CEZ as a fundraising consultant and project coordinator for the inaugural Chroma Zone Mural & Art Festival in 2019, and most recently oversaw the 2020 Summer Mural Project, became the CEZ’s interim Executive Director on November 1, 2020.
"Dreaming to making": A tour of the Zone
National convention-goers from Americans for the Arts visited the Zone in June, from single studios to Can Can Wonderland and Vandalia Tower.
Proactive planning for the CEZ
U of M student teams in place-making and real estate joined with CEZ to think about the Zone.
Mapping our creative economy
How does the Creative Enterprise Zone's economy look right now, in 2018? What are our livelihoods, and where are our creative clusters?
Writ large!
Three "Make it here" billboards now mark the Creative Enterprise Zone along University Avenue: at the St. Paul-Minneapolis border by the Court International building (pictured), at Cleveland, and at Vandalia.
The CEZ's new logo and how it grew
What goes into developing a logo? As designer John Seymour Anderson describes it, it starts with listening, research, and discovery.
CEZ Xchange: planning for people and places
How can the CEZ build on its pluses and perhaps avoid the minuses that can come with fast growth? Who can we partner with to enhance our public realm as well as our entrepreneurial spirit?
Towerside district: Our partner in innovation
What is Towerside? Where is it?
A new logo for the Zone
Referring to some of the Zone's iconic structures, from KSTP to Seal HiRise to Vandalia Tower, it was designed by Triangle Park Creative, a small graphic design firm that recently moved into the Zone.
CEZ Happy Hour celebrates a “chamber of dreams come true”
On November 8, 2018, some 80 people gathered for a CEZ Happy Hour. The venue this time: the soaring atrium of University Enterprise Labs on Westgate—another kind of maker space, where life scientists find a collaborative setting for tackling human problems.