Construction on office amenities within the hotly anticipated, long-delayed Dayton’s Project—a $200 million-plus reimagining of the landmark Nicollet Mall department store—is complete, including a library, rooftop terrace and fitness center
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As CEO of Meet Minneapolis, the tourism and convention association, Melvin Tennant is accustomed to selling the city to the world: the NFL, trade groups, anyone who might want to
There’s only one cocktail suitable for celebrating a business deal with Snoop Dogg: gin and juice. Twenty five years after releasing his hit, “Gin & Juice,” the rapper-turned-media-personality this week
Since Tastefully Simple peaked at $143 million in sales in 2008, it’s been a long, painful decline for the Alexandria, Minnesota-based home party company, once a fairy-tale success story. Jill
Red Wing Shoe Company will forgo the usual holiday discounts this Labor Day weekend to promote something that could draw even more interest than a sale during challenging economic times:
The BrandLab builds bridges for diverse students, from classroom to career. It grew out of concern that the Twin Cities’ overwhelmingly white advertising community didn’t reflect increasingly diverse audiences. John
Stretchy yoga pants are to quarantine life what lululemon is to shopping malls: a comfortable, reliable fit. Rosedale Center announced last week that lululemon will open at the mall this
Twin Cities housing sales ground to a near-complete halt in the early days of Covid-19. But up north, real estate agents’ phones started ringing off the hook in April—and haven’t
Virtually everything core to the $500 billion global beauty industry has been upended by Covid-19: product sampling, makeovers at the cosmetics counter, salon visits, photo shoots, runway shows. McKinsey’s May
There’s nothing like a deep-fried Dilly Dog and a bucket of Sweet Martha’s cookies to put 2 million sweaty people in the mood to shop, and so hundreds of merchandise
Just months from finalizing its U.S Food and Drug Administration FDA listing and launching its first-of-a-kind wearable assistive arm device for patients with upper-limb weakness, Abilitech Medical’s long-planned and highly
When the going gets tough, ice cream makes things just a little bit better. No one knows that better than the owners of Izzy’s Ice Cream. Just weeks after shuttering
A desire for more space and less concern about commute times or living near downtown offices while working remotely are two likely factors in rebounding home sales. Following a slow
Anyone in need of a new professional headshot can now get one for free from soona, the Minneapolis-based photo and video studio for quick-turn projects. Liz Giorgi, co-founder of the
The CEO of Xena Therapies discusses her change in strategy to avoid letting Covid-19 derail her rollout of cool therapy medical devices.
There’s no time like a pandemic to launch a new venture fund. Two experienced Minnesota-based investors, Brett Brohl and Mary Grove, are teaming up to launch Bread & Butter Ventures,
I’ve just returned from the Longfellow neighborhood in south Minneapolis. It’s Sunday, less than a week after the death of our fellow Minnesotan George Floyd at the hands of four
Houston White has known setbacks. In 2008, he was a self-employed contractor building million-dollar homes in Golden Valley when the foreclosure crisis hit, taking down his business along with it.
Clarence Bethea is unusual among Minnesota entrepreneurs: a black founder who has raised more than $8.5 million for his startup, the warranty app Upsie. In the wake of George Floyd’s death—another
After five years of baking cookies as big as your head, T.Rex Cookie was at a crossroads. With a storefront and kitchen in Eagan and a wholesale business supplying Orchestra