The diminutive Newport Transit Station, on Highway 61 just southeast of St. Paul, is the first step in a much larger redevelopment project: it sits amid 300 acres of former industrial land that local officials hope will one day become a bustling mixed-use complex. Now a stop on an express-bus line, it is a future link to the Red Rock Corridor, a multimodal transport system that will connect the Twin Cities with their southeastern suburbs.
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