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Saturday, November 27 is Small Business Saturday in communities across the nation just like Ramsey County! The event was organized more than a decade ago to highlight the importance of small businesses to local economies. It continues to be the perfect opportunity for holiday shoppers to visit small businesses, familiarizin...
Brown Venture Group, 2043 SBC and the University of Minnesota’s Office of Technology Commercialization partnered to bring local leaders from the public, private and philanthropic sectors together with representatives from the NASA Glenn Research Center for an informative conversation on how entrepreneurs in Minnesota can partner with NASA to commercializ...
The Labor Market Information Office at DEED recently released Q2 2021 job vacancy data. The report found that job openings in Minnesota soared to a record high in the second quarter of 2021 as demand for workers greatly outpaced hiring. As the state’s economy continues to recover from the pandemi...
Frank, an Air Force Veteran, found himself laid off from his most recent civilian job due to COVID-19, only months after being laid off from the IT job he had for more than 10 years.
After taking a couple of months off to re-focus, Frank found job hunting to be ...
Introducing the Racial Equity Dividends Index: A new tool to drive and support racially equitable business practices
By Nathan Arnosti, Director of Products & Analytics, Center for Economic Inclusion
Businesses across the country have demonstrated a renewed interest in reckoning with our country’s systemic racial inequities in the 18 months since th...
JoinUsMN.com hosts new campaign to promote the state to businesses and talent
Today, the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) launched a first of its kind coordinated campaign with businesses and economic development partners across the state. The goal is to share with the world why Minnesota i...
On October 5, 2021, Ramsey County won a prestigious Silver Rank award in the category of Economic Equity and Inclusion for its Economic Competitiveness & Inclusion Plan (ECIP) from the International Economic Development Council (IEDC). IEDC's Excellence in Economic Development Awards recognize the world's best economic development programs and partnerships, marketing materials and the year's most influentia...
A Minneapolis developer has proposed a five-story building at Plato Boulevard and South Robert Street in St. Paul that would span 174 affordable apartments, as well as 10,000 square feet of ground-level commercial and community space. The new structure would replace an old American Red Cross office building.
The proposal fro...
RACIAL EQUITY DIVIDENDS ASSESSMENT: Forging Data-Informed Pathways to Racial Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
By Samuel N. Ndely II, Associate Director of Strategic Partnerships, Center for Economic Inclusion
The global protests following the killing of George Floyd demonstrated the widespread awareness of racial inequity and the determination to do something about it. B...
Ramsey County is rolling along with plans for a 15-mile bus rapid transit route connecting downtown St. Paul to White Bear Lake.
The Ramsey County Board on Tuesday voted to commit $39.9 million of county funding needed to help fuel a two-year development phase of the Metro Purple Line, which formerl...
St. Paul earns MLS All-Star Game next summer
Oct 5 2021St. Paul’s Midway neighborhood continues to move toward the future.
In September, the Midway Shopping Center started to become rubble after being vandalized and set on fire in the wake of George Floyd’s death in May 2020, and on Tuesday, Major League Soccer announced the demolished strip mall’s glowing neighbor, Allian...
Offer the term “manufacturing” to a jobseeker and their perception may be one of a dark, dirty work environment and a monotonous experience. But the reality is today’s manufacturing careers are exciting and dependent on high technology equipment. Additionally, manufacturers cannot find enough people to do these jobs.
“Today’s manufacturing career...
When neighbors balked at a proposal to build apartments on city-owned land, Vadnais Heights leaders decided to let residents devise a plan for the property.
Members of a citizen task force said they wanted a destination brewery or distillery and community gathering space on the 3-acre site near the shores o...
Comcast has announced that it will award $1 million in grants to 100 small businesses owned by people of color in the Twin Cities, as well as provide technology and marketing resources to businesses that qualify.
Each business selected will receive a $10,000 grant from the Comcast RISE Investment Fund.
From no...
Springboard for the Arts has transformed a vacant used car dealership into a colorful, flexible hub for artists and neighbors.
This weekend, the nonprofit is celebrating its new home on University Avenue in St. Paul with tours, tunes and a poem written for the occasion. (Check out the schedule here.)
Artists hav...
St. Paul city and business leaders gathered at Rice Park Thursday to praise 16 neon-wearing, broom-toting, radio-wielding downtown Street Team members for cleaning up garbage, graffiti and crime in the capital city's business and cultural core.
"Just in time, we rallied ourselves together around downtown. ... Just in time, we create...
The Beacon Bluff Business Center off Phalen Boulevard will soon have a new occupant, one familiar to connoisseurs of Grand Avenue pastries.
Wuollet Bakery is acquiring three acres within the former 3M campus to construct a 50,000-square-foot commercial baking, manufacturing and wholesale production facility, with the goal of expanding the bran...
St. Paul electronics recycler Tech Dump expands with Tech Discounts retail store on Vandalia Street
Sep 25 2021It’s not everyday that a “dump” run by former inmates invites community residents over for cookies, but the electronics recycler known as Tech Dump has a lot to celebrate, not the least of which is the opening of its new “Tech Discounts” retail store in St. Paul.
On Saturday, residents an...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Child care providers in Minnesota can now apply for grants to get direct monthly payments to help stabilize their businesses as the economy recovers amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gov. Tim Walz announced Wednesday that child care providers have access to a $300 million state grant program that wil...
After 25 years of rolling out other companies’ medical devices, St. Paul-based contract-manufacturer Minnetronix Medical has begun designing some of its own.
The MindsEye Port — a small but expandable insert used in deep-brain surgery — received clearance from the federal Food and Drug Administration last year for the treatment o...
The macaroni necklace—long a pre-school favorite—just got a gold-plated update inspired by Panera’s new grilled mac & cheese sandwich. Americans are apparently hungry for fine jewelry that reflects cheesy pasta, and the St. Paul-based jewelry brand that created it is riding the viral hit toward more national brand partnerships.
Panera commissione...
St. Paul’s Restaurant Resiliency Program designed to help owners that lack the expertise to build an online business.
Opening their own restaurant in January 2018 was a longtime dream come true for Jamie and Niw Rattanapamonsook. Suspending in-person dining in the spring of 2020 due to COVID-19 put that dream &mdash...
Two years after completing college, young graduates of color are more likely to be stuck in part-time or seasonal employment than their peers, according to the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development. In an effort to close that gap, the Greater MSP Partnership is launching ConnextMSP, an inclusive talen...
