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Vantive Group, a Dunkin’ Donuts franchisee, is opening a new 2,000 sf shop at 2425 Rice Street in St. Paul. A separate franchisee group, Kod Kod Enterprises, will open the first Dunkin’ Donuts in the Twin Cities in New Hope. Colliers is representing both franchisee groups.
Childrens Learning Adventure has opened in Maple Grove. This mega childcare center offers infant, preschool, afterschool and summer camp programs, and includes such activities as Imagination Island, complete with miniature shops, a science center and planetarium, a mock TV studio with video cameras, a garden, library and art studio. The Maple Grove location is at […]
HyVee has now purchased 40 acres at Bass Lake Road and Highway 101 in Maple Grove at a cost of $10.6 million or almost $6.00 per square foot, per Finance & Commerce reporting. This would give HyVee enough room for one of their 96,000 sf supermarkets, their convenience store pad site and up to 100,000 […]
HyVee opened in Lakeville this month, their third store in the Twin Cities. This supermarket includes all of their high quality grocery, meat & produce, and deli & bakery offerings in a large 95,000+ square foot store. But it also includes a 3,300 sf F&F clothing store, with value items all under $50 and a […]
The Canadian based company of Tim Horton is coming back to the Twin Cities with their fast food restaurant chain. (You may recall there was one in Hopkins that has long since closed.) Tim Hortons has 869 restaurants in the United States, and another 3,700 restaurants around the world. They have hired Restaurant Development Partners […]
CNN Money is talking about more store closings. Walmart is closing 269 stores this year, with Sears closing 10 Sears and 68 KMart stores. Kohls is closing 18, with Target and Macy’s also announcing shuttered stores. Gap announced last year that they plan to close 175 locations. That’s all on top of those closing due […]
Ernie Herman, TJX Companies’ CEO told investors on Tuesday that they plan to grow their number of stores by 50% from their current count of 3,700 locations to 5,600. Herman stated, “We are confident that we can continue to open stores around the world. And these estimates do not contemplate the potential to expand into […]
Kaskaid Hospitality has signed a lease to open a Crave restaurant at the Eden Prairie Center in the space previously occupied by Biaggi’s. This will be their 12th Crave restaurant, and sixth Crave in the Twin Cities. Kaskaid also owns five other restaurants here with varying concepts – Union, Blvd, Avenida Cocina, Burger Burger and […]