It was the familiar under-construction desert: chewed pavement, a sleeping Caterpillar, dusty orange signs. “Whoa, how are you not a mannequin?” a lone skateboarder blurted, rolling past and breaking the
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Erin Wall recalls what it was like working with young, fast-growing brands as a senior merchant at Target. “A lot of times … they would be going from $1 million
Walgreens is continuing its national rollout of micro-fulfillment centers—or, facilities that use automation to fill prescriptions. Its first in Minnesota opened Tuesday. In a Brooklyn Park business center off Highway
A local affordable housing nonprofit is laying off 117 employees. CommonBond Communities, headquartered in St. Paul, has decided to outsource property management, plus “tangential positions,” according to a notice sent
Dorsey & Whitney, one of the largest law firms in Minnesota, on Thursday announced Peter Nelson as its new managing partner. The international firm’s policy committee elected Nelson on Wednesday,
Apple Valley Foods US, known for producing fresh and frozen pies, will close its Chaska facility and permanently lay off 95 employees. The private, family-owned company begins layoffs July 11,
In Jacob Frey’s State of the City speech Tuesday, the Minneapolis mayor took stock of the city’s past year and near future. He focused largely on public safety and affordable
Smurfit WestRock, a corrugated packaging company headquartered in Dublin, is permanently closing its St. Paul facility and laying off 189 workers, per a WARN notice filed Wednesday. The mill, which
John C. Volin will be the next president of Gustavus Adolphus College. Volin begins his tenure as the St. Peter college’s 18th president in August, Gustavus announced last week. Coming
IV Media LLC, the Eden Prairie parent company of home shopping network ShopHQ, is adding another round of layoffs, starting June. The company also anticipates closing its Eden Prairie facility.
For as long as we’ve had creative professionals, we must have had this conflict: the artist versus the financier. Such strife has lately been dramatized in Oscar winner The Brutalist
In St. Cloud, Stearns Bank has built a national reputation. Largely, it’s that of an anomaly—for both central Minnesota and the banking industry. It boasts majority-women leadership and ownership, is
Released this week in the April/May issue of Twin Cities Business, the 2024 Minnesota Census of Women in Corporate Leadership warns that the rate of progress of women’s representation on
An outdoor sporting goods distribution center that got its start in South St. Paul decades ago is closing, laying off 57 employees. It marks the latest turn for Sportsman’s Guide,