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Rick Rossi

Rick Rossi

Property manager of the First National Bank Building in downtown St. Paul, formerly with Madison Equities.

Sep 15, 2026

20:26
To follow him around the building is to see what 40 years of accumulated knowledge about one single city block looks like.
20:33
So here's a drop box that was available from street level for if you were a customer of the bank.
20:40
The bank and the security and the structure, if you're familiar with some of the history of St. Paul, So it had quite a gangster reputation.
20:52
And so these were actually used in the field to put up the west tower in the late 20s and early 30s when they were working on it.
21:03
Worse was the fact that they were armed, and consequently they had to qualify to prove that they could handle their weapons, I believe their pistols.
21:28
Obviously too many.
22:17
The sign was a great representation
22:20
of, I feel, the current condition of St. Paul in many regards.

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