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Giordano’s opened their second MN store yesterday, this one in Richfield at Southdale Square. It is 5,000 square feet, includes 180 seats with patio, and offers a full bar with local beers. Their first location opened in Uptown last summer.
MarketWatch is reporting this morning that Supervalu is selling its Save-A-Lot business to the Canadian private equity group Onex Corporation for $1.365 billion. Supervalu will continue to supply Save-A-Lot with product as part of a five-year professional services agreement. This will include more than 1,300 stores around the country, the majority of locations being owned […]
With Eagan now open, that brings the current count to five stores, including New Hope, Oakdale, Lakeville, and Brooklyn Park. Six sites that are either in construction or in planning include Cottage Grove, Robbinsdale, Maple Grove – two sites including 101 & 10, and Maple Grove Parkway, Savage and now Farmington. Whew!
CNN Money today is quoting the Sears CEO Eddie Lampert who wrote on their corporate blog this Monday that frequent reports about KMarts demise are “false and exaggerated”, and there are “no plans and there have never been any plans to close the Kmart format”. Of course, he then went on to concede that some […]
The Best Buy store at the Shoppes at Wilmar will be closing soon. Tricia Pitchford and Jesseka Doherty with MidAmerica are the listing brokers for this location. The other six stores include Council Bluffs, IA; two stores in Baltimore MD; Topsham, ME; Beaufort, SC and Long Island NY, and they will add to the already […]
In anticipation of next year’s Super Bowl visitors, the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal is reporting that Minneapolis alone has added 1,000 rooms with new hotels this year, and more coming. The Renaissance Minneapolis Hotel renovated and added 110 more rooms for a total of 312, the Radisson Red opened with 164 rooms, and the Embassy […]
So time for a margarita – and the Mall of America now has the place to get it. Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville Restaurant opened today at MOA. This 315 seat restaurant and bar in nearly 10,000 square feet will their first foray into Minnesota. The restaurant includes the 5 o’clock Somewhere Bar and the Porch of […]
Kmart will close 64 stores in December, two of which are in Minnesota, West St. Paul and Moorhead. Back in 2012 they had 1,300 stores, and with this latest round of closures will be down to approximately 800. More to follow, for sure. Here’s the entire list of stores: Kmart #3706: Wytheville, VA Kmart #3754: […]
Fresh Thyme opened in Plymouth on Wednesday at the corner of Highway 55 and Vicksburg. This new center developed by Oppidan includes Goodwill that opened last month, and a Starbucks under construction. As was true at their previous openings, one of their first day promotions is a free give-away of a bag of groceries to […]
Nordstrom continues to expand their Rack format here in Minnesota with a new 40,000 sf location planned for the IDS Center. NR will take over the space on the Crystal Court formerly occupied by Gap, plus some additional space in the basement level. The store is projected to open in the fall of 2017. Andrea […]