Jeff Eaton: The NorthMarq/Cushman merger “just made sense”

October 27, 2011 Jeff Eaton says that both NorthMarq Real Estate Services and Cushman & Wakefield Minnesota got what they wanted from last month’s merger of the two companies: Cushman after the move grabbed the number-one market position in the Twin Cities. NorthMarq, meanwhile, gained a global reach that it did not have before. Read more...

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Kansas City company buys Minneapolis Grand Apartments

October 18, 2011 The Minneapolis Grand Apartments has quite a convoluted history. But last month, the building, which includes 81 apartment units in Minneapolis, might have finally achieved some much-needed stability. Read more...

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Minneapolis’ Opus Group earns contract to build new corporate headquarters for maker of Arm & Hammer products

September 28, 2011 Minneapolis-based The Opus Group has recently been awarded a contract to design and build a new 250,000-square-foot corporate headquarter campus for Church & Dwight Co., Inc., in the Princeton, N.J., area. Read more...

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NorthMarq, Cushman merger to change commercial landscape in Minneapolis/St. Paul

September 22, 2011 The Minneapolis/St. Paul-area commercial real estate landscape is about to look a lot different. Two of the area's largest commercial real estate firms -- NorthMarq and Bloomington, Minn.-based Cushman & Wakefield Minnesota -- have agreed on a merger. Read more...

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Good week: Towle Financial services closes more than $32 million in loans

September 09, 2011 Talk about a good week: Minneapolis-based Towle Financial Services closed $32.6 million in permanent loans in 12 separate transactions all in the week of Aug. 29. Read more...

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Opus gains funds for major developments in Iowa and Minnesota

September 08, 2011 Minneapolis-based Opus Development Corporation recently announced the closing of two loans with TCF Bank totaling more than $32 million. The loans will fund projects in Des Moines and Minneapolis. Read more...

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Jones Lang LaSalle helps pacemaker company close big lease in Minnesota

August 23, 2011 Jones Lang LaSalle recently helped St. Jude Medical, a developer and producer of pacemakers and other medical devices, lease abut 13,000 square feet of warehouse space at Rogers Corporate Center II in Rogers, Minn. Read more...

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Paul Bryant: Pounding the pavement leads to thriving career

July 25, 2011 Each issue, Midwest Real Estate News profiles a successful commercial real estate professional. This issue, we look at the long career of Paul Bryant, principal and senior vice president in the Chicago office of Mid-America Real Estate Corporation, the brokerage division of Mid-America Real Estate Group, which has offices in Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis and Milwaukee. Read more...

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Retail showing promise in Minneapolis-St. Paul

June 13, 2011 Consumers in Minneapolis-St. Paul prefer smaller homes close to job centers these days. And this has helped boost at least a modest recovery in the retail sector in the Twin Cities' inner-ring suburbs and core areas, according to a recent report from Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services. Read more...

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The Minnesota Real Estate Exchangors: A place for ideas, networking and, of course, swapping real estate

June 10, 2011 You never know what you might find at the country store of the Minnesota Real Estate Exchangors. An office building in downtown St. Paul might be on the market. Maybe there’ll be a strip center in Edina or a slice of land far from the center of downtown Minneapolis. Read more...

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