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The state's foreclosure rate increase was well above the national increase of 4 percent.
The group plans to develop 32 acres for a research park near the University of Minnesota; construction on the first building will begin within the next 18 months.
A conglomerate of local business leaders is seeking funding and a new leader for a start-up-through which it plans to create a unified brand for the Twin Cities and attract jobs to the area.
The company hopes to expand its current wind production as it takes steps to meet federal standards that require electric utilities to derive 12 percent of energy for Minnesota consumers from renewable sources by 2012.
The private golf course is located at 2200 East Larpenteur Avenue in St. Paul and boasts an 18,426-square-foot clubhouse.
Minnesota's unemployment rate inched up to 7 percent last month, but it still remains well below the national average of 9.6 percent.
The U.S. Open Racquetball Championships will be moving in October to Minneapolis from Memphis, Tennessee, and the 2015 Summer National Senior Games will be held at venues in Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Bloomington.
The guilty pleas are part of an agreement reached last month between the U.S. Attorney's Office and Tom Petters' court-appointed receiver and bankruptcy trustee, Doug Kelley.
Burrill & Company reportedly said that it has a $1 billion commitment from a single investor and hopes to close the deal by the end of 2010.
Kurschner will replace longtime editor Jay Novak, who also served as the magazine's publisher; associate publisher Shelly Elmore has been selected as the magazine's new publisher.
S.T. Specialty Foods will be purchased for $180 million in cash with the option of an additional $15 million if it achieves earnings goals for the year.
About 70 letters requesting amounts of up to $2 million were reportedly sent out to former employees of Petters Group Worldwide; the money will be used to help repay investors who lost money in Tom Petters' multi-billion-dollar fraud scheme.
Pebblebrook Hotel Trust said in a Friday regulatory filing that it will pay $33 million to acquire the Minneapolis hotel-$3 million less than the $36 million price it originally agreed to pay before "significant and unanticipated matters" that it became aware of during the summer.
Terms of the deal, which is expected to close by the end of the month, were not disclosed.
Robert White, a consultant who helped Tom Petters forge financial documents, had requested a lighter sentence for his cooperation with authorities and his role in bringing down Petters' fraud scheme.