Business News

By Sarah CR Clark On July 24, the Chroma Zone Mural & Art Festival’s second summer event of 2021 filled a barren parking lot on...

Sky Group Bargains is a retail liquidator

Staff

25 Aug 2021

By Cigale Ahlquist Inside a nondescript 70,000-square-foot warehouse just west of Highway 280 in the St. Anthony Park neighborhood lies Sky Group Inc.’s network of...

Kraus-Anderson breaks ground for housing project

Scott Carlson

29 Apr 2021

By Scott Carlson Construction is underway for a 220-unit apartment complex at the northeast corner of Raymond and University avenues, making it the latest housing...

Pet Care Partners opens for business

Staff

29 Apr 2021

By Cigale Ahlquist Dr. Annie Seefeldt, who helped push Minnesota lawmakers to legalize animal chiropractic in the state in 2008, recently opened Pet Care Partners,...

Restaurants, retail hope to rebound with easing of COVID-19 restrictions

Staff

27 Jan 2021

By Cigale Ahlquist Sandra Weise is hopeful. With the easing of COVID-related restrictions for bars and restaurants on Jan. 6, Weise, the owner of the...

Dino’s restaurant seeks drive-up permit

Anne Holzman

25 Nov 2020

By Anne Holzman Dino’s Mediterranean Fresh restaurant is asking the Falcon Heights City Council for permission to install a drive-up lane at its restaurant at...

St. Germaine takes on real estate challenges for CEZ

Staff

29 Oct 2020

By Maja Beckstrom When Nancy St. Germaine started as real estate director at the Creative Enterprise Zones a year ago, her task seemed straightforward: Help...

CoCreatz closes

Editor, Park Bugle

30 Sep 2020

The owners of CoCreatz, the community co-office sharing venture at Raymond and University avenues, in early September, permanently shut down their nonprofit enterprise, blaming the...

Fall brings hearty takeout, a new restaurant and big dark beers

Staff

29 Sep 2020

By Maja Beckstrom On sunny fall mornings, the sidewalk outside of Colossal Cafe on Como Avenue is full of people eating at 10 tables scattered...

Midway Chamber exec sees business challenges

Scott Carlson

29 Jul 2020

By Scott Carlson As the executive director of the Midway Chamber of Commerce, Chad Kulas has a front row seat in witnessing how the coronavirus...

Uncertain times for brewpubs, restaurants

Staff

29 Jul 2020

By Maja Beckstrom Jill Pavlak, co-owner of the Urban Growler Brewing Company in south St. Anthony Park, was looking forward to a record year back...

Local shops navigate the COVID-19 economy

Staff

29 Jul 2020

By Maja Beckstrom If you’re in the right business, you could be doing well in the new coronavirus economy. The Little Wine Shoppe in Milton...

Spring Café morphs into Dock & Paddle

Staff

30 Jun 2020

By Michael Kuchta The restaurant in Como Lakeside Pavilion opened June 5 with a new name—and at least one feature that doesn’t exist elsewhere, hard...

New office will be doggone close to work for this vet!

davehealy

18 Nov 2019

Building and site will feature solar panels, water diversion system By Dave Healy According to the U.S. Census Bureau, more Americans are working from home...