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FOR ANNE KAUFFMAN, DIRECTING IS A FORM OF CRUSADE. MARIA MILEAF CRAVES THE SHARPNESS OF NARRATIVE. A PLAYER, DERRICK SANDERS KNOWS HOW TO WORK A REHEARSAL ROOM. WHILE JOEL SASS [...]

IN AN IDEAL THEATRICAL WORLD, playwrights and actors have the same goals. Both want a transition from page to stage that has integrity and honesty. Both seek a kind of [...]

Brad's mad about taxes on his bachelor pad Perhaps there are actually three certainties in life: death, taxes, and the knowledge that sometimes you should just keep your mouth shut. [...]

Body politics: Jesse is muscle behind Brooklyn Park boom Famous mayor helps pin down development deals Economic development in a suburban community can be a breeze if you've got the [...]

SciMed's huge expansion plan jolts sleepy real estate market Fueled by explosive growth, SciMed Life Systems Inc. is considering a major expansion of its operations in Maple Grove, which could [...]

Medical products firm in Minnetonka to double its size Demand for AMS devices is expected to fuel growth American Medical Systems Inc. (AMS), a rapidly growing medical products firm, will [...]

Land battle heats up over Inver Grove mall project Disgruntled individuals and companies that own land that's part of the proposed Great Mall of Minnesota in Inver Grove Heights are [...]

Rebuilding history doesn't pay Despite lucrative tax credits that once made them popular, many Twin Cities rehab projects have turned out to be money losers The quaint warehouses of downtown [...]

At Trammell Crow Co.'s revamped local offie, there's strength in numbers. For a recent interview, managing partner Gary O'Brien enlisted the aid of seven top executives for a show of [...]

ALL TORN UP Life was not easy for Perry Cohn two Christmases ago. His jewelry store in the lobby of the Interchange Tower in St. Louis Park looked as if [...]

Real estate owners put pressure on the tax man Harold Brandt thinks commercial property taxes in Minnesota are insidious. When the senior vice president of Brookfield Development Properties Inc. talks [...]

City Center is struggling with a deficit, partners told The City Center complex in downtown Minneapolis could be the next project to fall from the troubled portfolio of Brookfield Development [...]

Developers, brokers await final decision from Deloitte Firm's commitment will be prize for one local tower The accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche is nearing a decision on where it [...]

Donors, state leaders say nyet to Gorbachev Maxwell project Like so many of Rudy Perpich's gambits, the Gorbachev Maxwell Institute of Technology seemed like a good idea at the time. [...]

CSM Corp. swoops down on bargains in real estate Firm finds opportunity even in poorest of times Even in the darkest days of Twin Cities commercial real estate, at least [...]

WHITHER IDS? Breyer discusses the waylaid tower's fate In June 1990, IDS Financial Corp. made some of the biggest commercial real estate news of the year by deciding not to [...]

Real estate downturn hits title insurance companies Local firms retrench in face of worsening slump The real estate decline in the Twin Cities is taking a heavy toll on title [...]

Now leasing: 3 million feet of |A+' space Towers vie for tenants in overbuilt downtown With 3 million square feet of office space opening in downtown Minneapolis in the next [...]

Prudential to sell tower to ITT Hartford East Coast firm will buy 16-story Northland Plaza ITT Hartford Insurance Group will purchase the 300,000-square-foot Northland Plaza office building in Bloomington, officials [...]

IDS expected to lease space at Northstar IDS Financial Corp. is expected to announce this week that it will lease 200,000 square feet of office space in the Northstar Center [...]

A taxing miscue on Nicollet Council antes up to quell assessment controversy Property owners in the Nicollet Mall area have been paying incorrectly calculated property assessments for the past 23 [...]

Watershed years at the Port Authority When Jim Bellus dove into the sea of problems at the St. Paul Port Authority more than a year ago, he knew that he [...]

University Ave. facelift resulted in area's rebirth St. Paul's University Avenue is undergoing a quiet renaissance. In the last decade, the thoroughfare which runs from the State Capitol to the [...]

Major banks to close area loan offices Two of the nation's largest banks are closing their Minneapolis commercial real estate lending offices because of the down-turn in local and national [...]

Crow towers will get new leasing teams Shelard, Coldwell Banker may handle management The pension fund that is expected to take control of five Trammell Crow Co. properties is likely [...]

Curtain rises on arena The last hardhats are leaving the newest sporting venue in downtown Minneapolis. Employees with the Minnesota Timberwolves are settling into new offices. And the Target Center, [...]

A refurbished Bridgeman's launches major expansion Restaurant chain aims to double stores in three years Bridgeman's Restaurants Inc., the homegrown Minnesota ice-cream parlor chain that nearly died in the mid-1980s, [...]

Dealmakers with a difference On the surface, Ralph Strangis and Samuel Kaplan are not at all alike. Strangis is an aggressive, loud-talking Italian Catholic from Northeast Minneapolis. Kaplan is a [...]

Crow files for Chapter 11 on Normandy Hotel partnership lists debts of $15.5 million The distressed Twin Cities office of Trammell Crow Co. suffered another setback last week when the [...]

Not ones to say, `TOLD you so' Maple Grove developer foresaw doldrums, has managed to steer clear Given the condition of the Twin Cities commercial real estate market, it might [...]

Harris asks city to donate Block E, split the return Council members are lukewarm to latest proposal Minneapolis developer Ray Harris has asked the city of Minneapolis to take a [...]

Developer of Sears project asks city for $30 million The Canadian developer that plans an ambitious renovation of the Chicago-Lake Sears store has asked for $30 million in city assistance [...]

Crow's residential unit closes Partner says image woes made financing scarce Unable to obtain financing for new projects because of the problems of its commercial real estate counterpart, Trammell Crow [...]