Headquarters: Minnetonka
CEO: John Solberg
Other offices: Seattle, Portland, Denver, Kansas City, St. Louis
Employees: About 240, including 100 fulltime salaried workers in the Twin Cities.
Revenues: $380 million through Sept. 30, down about 10 percent from last year.
History: Has developed about 85 million square feet of commercial space since starting operations in 1953.
Major Twin Cities projects: Best Buy headquarters in Richfield; Shoppes of Arbor Lakes and the Fountains at Arbor Lakes in Maple Grove; Excelsior Crossings in Hopkins; the Carlyle, Grant Park, University of St. Thomas campus and First Bank Place (now Capella Tower) in downtown Minneapolis.
Just as Lawrence Kazmerski, a top official at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, was about to give the keynote address at the University of Minnesota's annual E3 conference at the RiverCentre in St. Paul, the lights went out, bathing the audience in darkness and a deep sense of irony.
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