DEED in the News
 Thrivent Financial is getting a little help from the state as it starts work on its new downtown Minneapolis headquarters.
The nonprofit financial services organization is building a 350,000-square-foot office building. In support of the project, DEED awarded $755,756 to clean up petroleum and other pollutants on the 2.51-acre block.
The Thrivent project is one of 13 awarded DEED contamination cleanup grants earlier this month. A mixed-use apartment project in Uptown (shown in the rendering above) also received cleanup funding.
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Recent Press Releases
DEED awarded 35 grants totaling more than $19 million for projects in Greater Minnesota. The Small Cities Development Program grants help pay for rehabilitating housing and commercial buildings and updating public infrastructure in small cities and counties.
Minnesota business services firms feel positive about the economy, with nearly 90 percent expecting sales revenue to increase or remain stable next year, according to a joint survey released last week by DEED and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
The Minnesota Public Facilities Authority approved $4.15 million in state funding for water infrastructure projects in the central Minnesota communities of Eagle Bend and Clear Lake-Clearwater. Sanitary sewer rehabilitation and water main improvements are under way in Eagle Bend, while Clear Lake-Clearwater is planning improvements to a wastewater treatment plant that the two cities share.
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The annual
state-of-the-state issue of Trends magazine provides an overview of the Minnesota economy
and takes a close look at each of the state’s six major regions. At
the midway point of 2018, one issue dominates the conversation: the search for
workers. The state set a fourth-quarter record with nearly 114,000 job
vacancies late last year and had more open jobs than people to fill them.
Pick up a free print copy in the DEED lobby or read it online.
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Recent Blog Posts
 Veterans looking for a job will have a great opportunity this week: The 12th Annual Minnesota Veterans Career Fair is set for Wednesday at the Earle Brown Heritage Center in Brooklyn Center. The event is the largest veterans career fair in the state and is expected to attract several hundred veterans. More details at MinnesotaWorks.net.
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