Business
November 7, 2019
Changes planned at Calhoun Square after sale for half-price

Changes planned at Calhoun Square after sale for half-price

A Chicago investment firm has purchased Calhoun Square and an adjacent vacant lot in Uptown's busy retail district for $34.5 million.
Business
November 7, 2019

CPA Bonnie Russ recognized as trailblazing business owner

Bonnie Russ, a University of Minnesota-trained accountant, was a single parent with a young daughter when she borrowed against her house in 1989, to join with the other founders of public-accounting firm Mahoney, Ulbrich, Christiansen.
Business
November 7, 2019
Duluth Trading Co opens its new prototype store in Mall of America, a downsized store entirely dedicated to men's underwear and irreverence. The shop

Duluth Trading gets cheeky with its new underwear store at the Mall of America

The store is a prototype that the rapidly expanding apparel maker may take to other malls and locations.
Business
November 6, 2019
East Metro
November 6, 2019
Water Gremlin employees made their way into the lot as its doors reopened for production after being shut down for more than a week over lead concerns

Minnesota's showdown with Water Gremlin intensifies

As cleanup of lead contamination continues, regulators accuse manufacturer of multiple pollution violations.
Agriculture
November 6, 2019
Executives and representatives of Minnesota firms hurt by the U.S. trade war with China on Wednesday called for the Trump administration to resolve it

Minnesota farmers, manufacturers say trade war is hurting them, not China

Invoices from Customs and Border Patrol, complicated product exclusion process now part of life for U.S. companies.
Business
November 6, 2019
The Minneapolis Planning Commission Committee of the Whole will take up a proposal Thursday to convert a former factory at 1010 Seventh St. S. in Minn

Apartments key to developer's plan to revive Strutwear Knitting building in Minneapolis

The building across the street from U.S. Bank Stadium struggled to attract office tenants and has been empty for at least a decade.
Business
November 6, 2019
"Jay Leno's Garage" features the stories behind classic cars and the people who own them, including one episode that interveiwed Patrick Dempsey. (Nic

3-D printer Stratasys strikes deal with 'Jay Leno's Garage'

New 3-D printers to run parts for his rare-car show.
Business
November 6, 2019
Shoppers browse the aisles during a Black Friday sale at a Target store, Friday, Nov. 23, 2018, in Newport, Ky.

With later Thanksgiving, Target will hold Black Friday preview sale this Fri.-Sat.

Business
November 6, 2019

Alexander: Here's how to upgrade a Mac to Windows 10

Nearly any Mac computer purchased since 2011 and an up-to-date copy of the VMware Fusion software for Mac are musts.
Business
November 6, 2019

Vast majority of paper millionaires in Silicon Valley are men

Gender pay gap in tech is apparent in stock payouts, too.
Duluth
November 5, 2019
An Edina Realty sign outside of a home in June 2017. ORG XMIT: MIN1706151535355301

Edina Realty expands in northeast Minnesota by adding office in Virginia

The company said the Virginia office will operate as a satellite of its Duluth hub.
Business
November 5, 2019
Several people were laid off from Bite Squad's Minneapolis offices this week. (RENEE JONES SCHNEIDER/Star Tribune)

Waitr cuts jobs at Bite Squad's former Minneapolis HQ, consolidating operations in Louisiana

App-based food-delivery business is also bailing out of some markets.
Business
November 5, 2019
Best Buy is making hundreds of the deals from its Black Friday ad available.

Best Buy has closed 18 stores, but physical locations still key to strategy

The moves are part of the Richfield-based electronic chain's annual churn as it re-evaluates its store portfolio as leases come up for renewal.
Agriculture
November 5, 2019
Corn silos are silhouetted by a setting sun Thursday, July 21, 2016, in Pleasant Plains, Ill. The Midwest's first dangerous bout of summer heat and hu

More than a third of U.S. farm income in 2019 will come from the government

Trade bailout, insurance payouts, to account for roughly 34% of U.S. farm income.
Business
November 5, 2019
SBA loans are up over 10% this year.

SBA lending in Minnesota up 11% in fiscal 2019

Minnesota small businesses raised $682 million in operating and asset-based loans from SBA-affiliated private lenders in fiscal 2019, up 11 percent from, 2018, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Business
November 5, 2019
Sun Country Airlines Reported Strong Third Quarter Growth

Sun Country offers four new summer routes, including the only nonstop from MSP to Portland, Maine

The routes reflect Sun Country's strategy of shifting northward in the summer.
Duluth
November 5, 2019

Truck driver killed in rollover at northeastern Minnesota mine

A service vehicle was found overturned and its driver pronounced dead at the scene.
East Metro
November 5, 2019
A petition to ban lead in fishing tackle and hunters' ammunition has been rejected by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR), with offici

Minnesota won't ban lead ammunition, tackle for now

DNR commissioner says it's an issue best left for the Legislature.
Eat & Drink
November 4, 2019
Dan O'Gara, owner of St. Paul's O'Gara's Bar & Grill, held a press conference at O'Gara's State Fair location in Falcon Heights to talk about his deci

St. Paul's legendary O'Gara's won't reopen after all

Restaurant's owner blames closure on $15 minimum wage, sick time requirements

Business

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