Summit-University

“Summit-U” is an ethnically and economically diverse community [6]. Among the many groups living in Summit-University are the Hmong community as well as the city’s other Asian communities, of whom Vietnamese, Laotians and Cambodians are represented in large numbers. Summit-University also includes the historic Cathedral Hill neighborhood, as well as what remains of “old Rondo” – a former neighborhood of the city. Rondo was the center of Saint Paul’s African-American community since the Civil War, but was nearly obliterated by the construction of Interstate 94 in the 1960s [7]. Famous Summit-University natives include baseball great Dave Winfield. Writer F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in this neighborhood, although he is generally associated with the Summit Hill neighborhood where he later lived. Neighborhood website

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