By Brian Johnson Dolan Media Newswires Minneapolis — Mayo Clinic’s vision for a new proton beam therapy program includes ambitious plans for new construction. The program — part of Mayo’s plans for a three-site cancer center in Minnesota, Arizona and ...

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By Scott Carlson Dolan Media Newswires Minneapolis — With Duluth’s jobless rate hovering slightly above Minnesota’s overall unemployment mark, city leaders are creating a temporary program to retain and create employment, and to spur investment in private development. The Duluth ...

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By Bob Geiger Dolan Media Newswires Minneapolis — In an effort to ease traffic congestion on Minnesota roadways, the Minnesota Department of Transportation is rolling out solid and flashing yellow arrow turn signals, which let drivers make left turns after ...

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By Brian Johnson Dolan Media Newswires Minneapolis — Right now, it’s just a big cornfield on the eastern outskirts of the Twin Cities — and it probably will stay that way for at least another couple of years. But if ...

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By Scott Carlson Dolan Media Newswires Minneapolis — Since 1922, the Second Avenue bridge has spanned the Rum River in Cambridge, Minn., serving as the icon of that Minnesota community’s park system. The city’s plans to tear down the nearly ...

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Scott Carlson Dolan Media Newswires Minneapolis — Twin Cities auto seller Rick Kline plans to transform his vacant car dealership along University Avenue into a multitenant retail development. Dubbed University Commons, the project will offer nearly 25,000 square feet of ...

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Brian Johnson Dolan Media Newswires Minneapolis — Demolition is moving into high gear on the former 3M campus in St. Paul. Within the next couple of weeks, St. Michael-based Rachel Contracting crews will begin to take down the largest building ...

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By Bill Clements Dolan Media Newswires Minneapolis — The Metropolitan Council has awarded the first major heavy construction contract for the Central Corridor Light Rail line — a $205 million contract for the eastern or St. Paul portion of the ...

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By Burl Gilyard Dolan Media Newswires Minneapolis (AP) — A downtown St. Paul building that’s more than 80 years old will soon have a new purpose: student housing. The growing, St. Paul-based McNally Smith College of Music has worked out ...

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Frank Jossi Dolan Media Newswires Minneapolis — As the Central Corridor light rail project takes shape in the Twin Cities, many state and local organizations have been collaborating to integrate renewable and efficient energy into the project. Members of the ...

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