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The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) is now accepting applications for the Minnesota Main Street COVID Relief Grant program. A total of $64,200,000 is available in grants for Minnesotan owned and operated businesses that can demonstrate financial hardship due to the COVID-19 pandemic Businesses that are majority-owned by military veterans...Continue Reading

Announcing a Twin Cities Metro Region On-Line Interactive Career Fair Date: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 Time: 2-5 p.m. **Event is limited to 40 exhibitors – register early!** Venue: Virtual Interactive Event Web Site https://metroregioninteractive.easyvirtualfair.com/ Hire your next employees at a Virtual Event! Build a fully customized virtual booth Receive candidate applications and resumes Interact live through video an...Continue Reading

Funds will provide solutions to reduce child care shortages St. Paul, Minnesota - Today, the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) has launched the latest round of Child Care Economic Development Grants. These grants authorize $5 million over the next two fiscal years for grants to local communities to increase qualit...Continue Reading

Promising Practices, Resources, and Policies for Sourcing Racially Diverse Talent By Tony Tolliver, Senior Director of Partnership & Impact, Center for Economic Inclusion Building an economy that works for everyone will require designing solutions to close employment gaps by attracting, hiring, and retaining diverse talent for good jobs with family sustaining wages...Continue Reading

When Sahil Taneja decided to leave his career in hotel management to become a Dunkin’ franchise owner in February 2020, he had no idea the impact that decision would have. “It quickly appeared to not be the best time to leave a job of 18 years,” he said. But Taneja’s leap int...Continue Reading

Belen Rodriguez's career plan was thrown into disarray by the coronavirus pandemic. She was furloughed in March 2020 from her part-time job as a Spanish language translator at HCMC in Minneapolis. Meanwhile, her growing catering business was falling apart as in-person events were canceled or postponed. "It was really scary," she said. Rodriguez's husban...Continue Reading

The word “startup” often brings to mind data scientists, engineers, and techies who are working on the next big disruption. Twin Cities Startup Week wants to broaden that perception to showcase innovation in all forms. This year, for the first time, the week-long September festival will put special emphasis o...Continue Reading

At first glance, the new Brand Builders Market looks like any other booth in St. Paul’s Keg and Case Market food hall, brimming with colorfully packaged food and beverages, organic soaps, and dog treats. But the market’s business model reveals that the retail component is just a small facet o...Continue Reading

Amidst the pandemic, one of Minnesota’s largest employers is permanently changing how and where its employees can work. 3M is unrolling a one-of-a-kind plan to permanently give employees more work-life balance. The new plan will affect most of their 90,000 workers. Minnesota-based 3M is going full throttle these days, making everything fro...Continue Reading

President of Reigstad Engineering Gordon Reigstad moved to White Bear Lake in 1989 with his family. Now, more than 30 years later, his sons Jared Reigstad and Jason Reigstad have helped their father expand the firm and develop a new product that will change the landscape of construction moving forward. Gordo...Continue Reading

When Oie Dobier's daughter Nya was looking at colleges in her sophomore year of high school, she realized it was like looking for a needle in a haystack. Oie said, “I asked myself, 'Where do you start?' Looking at the career first is the wrong approach. We should start looking a...Continue Reading

Land O’Lakes ushered in its second century of operations Wednesday by dedicating a bronze sculpture on its Arden Hills campus and reporting that it doubled profitability for the first half of 2021. About 20 members of the University of Minnesota marching band were on hand for the celebration Wednesday morning whe...Continue Reading

Companies across the country are experiencing significant difficulties filling their workforce positions. Regardless of the industry, businesses just cannot find enough qualified people to meet their demand. In Ramsey County, employers and schools are working together to help resolve that issue. Wilbert Plastic Services, a manufacturer of plastic components and assemblie...Continue Reading

APi Group Inc., which was taken public in 2019 with the goal of pursuing bigger acquisition targets, on Tuesday announced one of the biggest M&A deals by a Minnesota company this year, buying fire and security business of Carrier Global Corp. for $3.1 billion. The deal between New Brighton-based APi (NYSE...Continue Reading

The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development is opening applications for the first round of its Main Street Economic Revitalization Program on Aug. 3, which will direct half of the program’s $80 million to economic development and redevelopment projects. Read full article.Continue Reading

The next evolution of Dixie’s on Grand took a leap forward on Friday. The St. Paul Planning Commission voted 9-1 to support a conditional use permit and three zoning variances related to the proposed redevelopment of the Dixie’s on Grand lot into a five-story residential and commercial building. A conditional us...Continue Reading

ST. PAUL — The county’s Rush Line Policy Advisory Committee met for possibly the last time July 15, capping years of meetings as representative stakeholders in the mass-transit project. Management of the almost half-billion-dollar bus rapid transit (BRT) project is in the process of transitioning to the Metropolitan Council no...Continue Reading

Not all metro-area lakes can offer summer pleasure seekers a one-stop shop. But Shoreview’s Turtle Lake — popular with swimmers, anglers and boaters of all kinds — might fit the bill. Turtle Lake is a known hotspot for recreational boat traffic, including water skiers, wakeboarders, and users of personal watercraft. Traile...Continue Reading

Ramsey County, in partnership with the Ramsey County Workforce Innovation Board (WIB) launched a new initiative aimed at supporting businesses to become more inclusive workplaces. This effort is being led by the WIB’s Equity Committee in alignment with the county’s Economic Competitiveness and Inclusion Plan which set a comprehensive economi...Continue Reading

St. Paul – The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) will launch its new Main Street Economic Revitalization Program on Aug. 3. This $80 million statewide economic redevelopment program will award grants to partner organizations to establish programs within specific communities that will, in turn, fund economic development an...Continue Reading

Inclusiveness is supposed to be this state’s North Star. But the state is at the heart of a national reckoning on race. Economic Profile Governor: Tim Walz, Democrat Population: 5,657,342 GDP growth (Q1 2021): 7.5% Unemployment rate (May 2021): 4% Top corporate tax rate: 9.8% Read full article.Continue Reading

St. Paul – The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) has awarded grants totaling $3.1 million to 26 nonprofit lending partners across the state that provide business loans through DEED’s Minnesota Emerging Entrepreneur Loan Program (ELP). ELP supports the growth of businesses owned and operated by people who identify a...Continue Reading