Union Depot officials are in talks to potentially pay for a $100,000 wall to create an exhibit space for one of their business tenants.

Exhibits Development Group, which according to its website organizes “traveling exhibitions of art, science, history and popular culture,” opened at the downtown St. Paul depot last summer, taking up the last leasable space at the facility.

Depot asset manager Jean Krueger said the company wishes to create a secure event space in the depot’s “head house” — the large welcoming area past the depot’s front doors — which would require a barrier of some sort, allowing them to regulate admissions and charge entry fees.

Recent talks concerned an 8-foot tall wall that could be erected for temporary exhibits, and broken down afterward.

Krueger said there was currently no formal agreement on the wall, and nothing so far proposed to Ramsey County, which owns the depot. An EDG executive could not be reached for comment.

Krueger added that the wall, if bought, wouldn’t be available exclusively to the one business.

“We routinely have to invest in things in order to attract people and have them come back. … It would be another decor or separation element that is not in any stretch exclusive to EDG,” Krueger said.

The Lowertown depot essentially closed in the early 1970s but was reopened in 2012 after a $243 million renovation.