In an email sent to all tenants, Alliance Center, LLC said it cannot sustain the costs to operate the building any longer, given the unsustainable financial situation that exists at the building.

The City of St. Paul is reacting after tenants of the Alliance Bank Center in downtown were told to vacate their premises within 48 hours. A city spokesperson tells Bring Me The News that the mayor visited the tenants on Tuesday and listened to their frustrations after Alliance Center,

The financially troubled owner of downtown St. Paul’s Alliance Bank Center notified tenants Monday it would shut off utilities in two days' time, sending businesses scrambling to find new spaces, orchestrate difficult moves and grapple with goodbyes to storefronts that served as home for years.

Former St. Paul City Council member Jane Prince tells WCCO that the city never recovered from the pandemic and there are signs of mismanaged priorities by city leadership.

The office building is owned by Madison Equities, the St. Paul landlord that is trying to unload its downtown portfolio. Shutting the building down would leave a hole in the city's skyway system.

Tenants were originally given two days to leave. They now say the city has promised to keep the lights on until April 1.