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Newspaper Clipping - Newspaper Clipping Scan - West Publishing moving to Eagan - 7/4/1990 0 SPORTS BUSINESS MAIN NEWS i V R'S N0.9 NWA EYES GUIDE Y. EXP:ESS INDEX 70 A DOW FOR TAPANI SCOOP OF fOT AND EASTERN E. UP~11237 AT UMID The Twins beat If Northwest THE Homemade ice Laos . Roger Clemens buys Eastern, the Here's i your guide to the best cream churns a CLASSIFlED 51=,1F MOVIES .......7D and the Red Sox bad comes with K spots to view Independence P COMICS 8D OBITUARIES .....56 7-3. 1C the good. 1E I ' Day fireworks. 6A childhood CROSSWORD 8D,4F OPINION 10A y memories. iD DEAR ABBY 2D TV/RADIO , ..SOD HOROSCOPE 8D WEATHER ......4B MINNESOTA'S FIRST NEWSPAPER r' WEDNESDAY JULY 4,1990 METRO FINAL 25' PIONIEFRPRESS 6 SECTIONS, 52 PAGES A SECTION Volume 142, Number sa ® 1990 Saint Paul Pioneer Press (Northwest Publications Inc.) W est in e Publish g I aving St Paul, move 11 2 100 worke ..9 DAVE BEAT, ARDN KAHN the conclusion that the Eagan site will best Inc. and Cray Research Inc, president for buildings and properties. AND THOMAS R N KAHN sTnEE WRITERS meet West's long-range objectives. West has been gradually developing a The city's offer, led by Mayor Jim Scheibel, "We have an outstanding headquarters build- sprawling corporate campus in Eagan since , City Council President Bill Wilson and planning City leaders were owntown St. Paul lost one of its bi est em ing now, but its location between the river and 1976. Currently, it has more than 1.3 million official Warren Hanson, "could not overcome gg the bluff is just too restrictive. square feet of factory, warehouse, distribution the space and time advantages of the Eagan saddened, ployers Tuesday when West Publishing made it At stake for the city were West's existing and computer center space there. site," Opperman said. disappointed and official: By 1992, the company will move its 2,100 jobs plus more jobs that the growing com- Three months ago, after city officials learned In an interview immediately after news of frustrated over 2,100 employees to Eagan. pany would add over the years. Also at stake that West was thinking about moving all of its West's decision, Scheibel called the effort to the news of West West, the nation's largest and arguably most were the property taxes and wealth of econom- St. Paul operations to Eagan, they drew up pro- keep West in the city an uphill battle. Publishing's successful publisher of law books, said it simply is activity generated by West. posals to retain the comoanv. Later thAv "T wieh fhoo morn v+n,,;.. -41 T -t- . . mnvP. al4hm1srh naorlal mnm onano 41~., +60 ~~„ta •.:a., - - r" 1-au:", uuwuww❑ w+u iose rougniy a per- sweetened their offer. were looking at retaining 2,000 jobs and adding none had held The company headquarters overlooks the Mis- cent of its workers, including many high-paid The city offered West a package of land ac- more," he said. much hope that sissippi River south of Kellogg Boulevard, professionals. What's more, if the switch to quisition and clearance incentives valued at "We started off with chances of about 1 or 2 West would stay; In a prepared statement, West president and Eagan were made tomorrow, West's departure $7.86 million. The proposal would have enabled in 100," Scheibel said. "We heard from some meanwhile, CEO Dwight Opperman called it "difficult to would raise the downtowns office vacancy rate West to buy 5.7 acres adjacent to the 10.3 acres West people that it got close to 50-50. They Eagan's mayor leave the city which has been our headquarters from 17 percent now to 26 percent. it already owns along and below Kellogg Boule- worked almost daily with our staff. We made was elated. for 114 years. We leave St. Paul with sadness The decision is another boost for Eagan, a vard. their decision more difficult. It should be clear Stories, Page 5A and with appreciation for all the city offered to developing second-tier suburb due south of St. However, West said Tuesday that the down- to everybody that we're serious about keeping try to make it possible for us to stay. Paul. Over the past few years, Eagan has at- town site is too cramped. "However, future expansion needs and our tracted the corporate headquarters of several "We will not have esence in downtown St. lobs and economic development in this city. desire to merge existing operations lead us to large Twin Cities companies, including NWA Paul after 1992," said John Nasseff West's vice ' WFST rnrJnnu urn nr,i CA WEDNESDAY, JULY 4,1990 SAINT PAUL PIONEER PRESS F 5A FROM PAGE 1 1~/~~~ / Vl 1 Y1~ 1('1~ 1 Y1 11r l11~11~11~111 Y►t 7 !9!l ~ ~lr ~ 4-~n tia~ r ~ ~s+~,h~+ It In ~ • 1 ~ n L~ n ~n ~ • ■ iMV N / 1 L0tLJ1-a111116 %WV1111jull y L-)U y 3 IL 3 111V V 1116 11V111 I.) L. 1 CCUI LV ]L Q CLII V CONTINUED FROM IA for its employees. - West told its employees of the You go on to the next day." decision Tuesday afternoon. Then; Scheibel likened the loss of West just before 4 p.m., the company and the recent closing of the made its initial disclosure to the Schmidt Brewery to "what June outside world via a facsimile to was for the (Minnesota) Twins." Scheibel of its six-paragraph press "But you move forward," he release. Speculation was wide said. "Cities change. You can't spread that the company made the stand still. We have to look at the decision on the day before a holi possibilities for jobs in the year day in order to minimize the atten 2000." Lion it would get from the media. Far more than any other such But in telephone interviews lat move in recent times, the pending er, Opperman and Nasseff dis"r' 1 exodus at West points up the diffi counted that. culty facing the city in competing "I don't think there is anything with less developed suburbs for p~ to that, Nasseff said. We arrived j business and jobs. Even with the at the decision today, and then em w ~K added property the city offered to ployees were told about it." land-conscious West, the 264-acre "They made it tough," Opper- Some operations of West Publishing Co. are already in this plant in Eagan. The company will move entirely to Eagan by 1992. parcel the company owns in Eagan man added. "They got our atten- provides almost 20 times the space tion. Boy, they really rolled out the tempts by other states to win West too good to pass up. World Trade Center in St. Paul - the company would have had, with drums. That delayed us." many other nationally known com- expansions, he said. "It was very tough decision." this fall. city help, in St. Paul's downtown. Opperman said that while close- panies based in the state. About West will begin building a The roomy Eagan site gives ly held West is pulling out of St. three-fourths of its 4,200 jobs and He said the economies offered by 700,000-square-foot headquarters The company will start occupy- West great flexibility in designing Paul, the firm's commitment to all of its manufacturing remain in Eagan, where there are fewer de- and office structure - roughly one ing the building in 1992, Nasseff its buildings and providing parking Minnesota is greater than that ,f the state, despite constant at- velopment restrictions, were just and a half times the size of the said. Eagan welcomes West Publishing After working to keep west, city leaders with open arms and empty hands are saddened, disappointed by decision ARON KAHN STAFF WRITER DEBRA O'CONNOR STAFF WRITER I Enlarged area Of all the woeful words that' na Eagan's mayor was elated at the news that West pls✓S Paul would characterize the response to k Publishing Co. will establish its headquarters on its . West Publishing Co.'s departure q woodsy campus in this suburb south of St. Paul, but he Airport 494 from downtown St. Paul, strike ,r wasn't surprised. 149 "surprise." "I've been advised by West Publishing that their West 3 City leaders were saddened, dis- employees have been asking them for months what appointed and frustrated, but none are the best neighborhoods in Eagan," Mayor Tom Publishing held much hope that West would s3.:. Egan said. in take St. Paul's offer over its roll The headquarters' move from St. Paul will be a dou- Eagan ing, green, 208-acre campus in 393 0 ble benefit for this city of 45,000, he said. The new Eagan. 3M has a sprawling cam m BB tkt tt , rr, construction will mean an increased property tax pus. General Mills has a sprawling base, and the transferring of management and profes- campus. West wanted one too. A' gggg lfR sional employees makes it likely that many of them 149 "It's a sad day for the city of St. gligggg tt will move to Eagan, he said. 35E Paul, but I guess I'm notg "You're talking about hundreds of attorneys with Yankee Doodle surprised, said Bill Buth, director professional salaries needing housing, services and m of the St. Paul Building Owners a' 4 r t and Managers Association. "That's schools," Egan said. "This company has a good history and a predictable future. 2,000 people no longer working, The move of West's headquarters has more econom 11 ' eating and shopping downtown." G , ,sue is impact on Eagan than any other corporate decision $a Buth said the city's offer was in the history of the city, he said. Due to Minnesota Ap)gh urront "too little too late. If there's any sid law forbidding the luring of business from one city to Re all West VALLEY thing positive to come from this, another within the state, and because Eagan rarely °"b0"s its that we, the city, should pay uses economic incentives to attract business, the city Wescott Road more attention to taxpaying enh ; did not give any special consideration to the law book ties. We just can't take anybody for te'n' - publishing company, he said, w..,' granted." Wig` "We were able to accomplish this by not offering MStaff Claphk Ronnie Brooks, executive direc R concessions, but playing on a flat and level field," he for of the Downtown Council, said m ,a4; k said. sive plan guide was changed in January to permit a West's decision is a tremendous Some residents who live near the site of the new light industrial use. blow. construction were less thrilled when an expansion, "Where the residential area was originally planned, "West has been so tied to the k: which at the time did not include the firm's headquar- they're going to have a buffer zone, a green space," he growth and fortunes of downtown,, ters, was announced last fall. said. St. Paul," Brooks said. "It's very About 10 Percent of the additional land originally Eagan's biggest employer is Unisys, which has sad when we have a company that M ' a 1 -k was zoned for mixed residential uses, including town about 4,000 employees. Blue Cross and Blue Shield has is so successful and is thriving in houses and apartments, City Administrator Tom about 3,000 employees. West Publishing Co. likely will this economy and whose success Hedges said. It was rezoned and the city's comprehen- become the city's third largest employer, Hedges said. now won't directly benefit our a city." STAFF PHOTO Rich Hadley, president of the St. City leaders say it's urgent to find a new tenant for the West Pub- Paul Area Chamber of Commerce, lishing building on Kellogg Boulevard. Study fails to link chronic fatigue, virus said replacing West will be a very tough job because West's employ- be a good couple of handfuls of had to be filled by the private sec- ees include some of the highest- people interested in that site." tor. Downtown St. Paul has be- WASHINGTON POST " Althou5gh nospecific figures ex- ers, four recovered completely and paid workers in the city. A nearby resident - Maggie come an arts and governmental fo- ist on how many Americans are eight improved within two years, "We should try to attract Pri- Schwichtenberg, avice president cal point of the metropolitan area, chronically fatigued, the complaint without medication. Corey said he vate-sector jobs," Hadley said, of the West Seventh Street Federa- Thune said, and he emphasized Feeling tired all the time - a is "one of the 10 most common rea- is not sure why. adding that finding a tenant for tion - said she believed West had that that theme should not be ruled complaint that many patients sons why people see a doctor," ac- "There's some good news in that West's building will have high pri- decided to leave a long time ago, out for the West site. bring to their doctors and which cording to Anthony Komaroff; about half of the patients got bet- ority in the inner councils of busi- and that the city made the best of- "It's certainly not a time to de- has been popularly attributed to chief of general internal medicine ter over time without specific ness and civic leaders. fer it could. spair," Thune said. "We don't have the Epstein-Barr virus - probably at Boston's Brigham and Women's therapy," Corey said. "The less Added Brooks: Most business leaders contacted to compete with Minneapolis and is not caused by that virus, accord- Hospital. good news is, we didn't solve the "I think this is exactly the kind tended to agree that the city pulled build tall buildings. There's nothing ing to a study released today. Komaroff estimates that only 5 problem of chronic fatigue." of challenge that we need to bring out all stops to keep West. And the wrong with a slower, nicer pace." The report, in today's Journal of percent of people who complain of The researchers also found that together the leaders of downtown man at the center of the effort - the American Medical Association, being tired all the time have chron- the chronic fatigue patients were and try to come up with a common Mayor Jim Scheibel - said the staff writers Thomas J. Collins and Dave is one of the most sophisticated yet is fatigue syndrome, a type of more likely to be depressed than strategy to address what will be a city came close to turning West's Beal contributed to this report. to search for a link between ordi- malaise distinguished by its sudden were the normal subjects. Of the huge impact on our city." head. nary chronic fatigue and the Ep- onset. The syndrome has no known fatigue patients, 11, or 42 percent, . Whether a replacement for West "It's a compliment to the city stein-Barr virus, which also causes cause. were depressed. None of the non- Is public or private, city leaders that we made them stop and pause ~ mononucleosis. Previous studies The study compared 26 patients fatigued patients was depressed. feel an urgency to fill the huge and take a serious look at staying," Qdvin Klein have found no correlation between who had long-term fatigue with 18 building. Scheibel said. "When this all start- ~,,1 the virus and chronic fatigue, but healthy people of similar back- Corey said its unclear whether Buth said the county has been ed there was good speculation that j~ fired In f0.ll this is the first to use molecular bi- ground. Researchers looked for the the depression was causing the fa- looking at the structure as a possi- there was maybe one or two chanc J ology techniques that can find virus in the blood and saliva of . figueporPwhetther the patients were ble site for additional jail space, es in 100 that we would retain the V II UJCJ LIIaL IILur 1W41 ULIICl IRCLU- now lne 1S012CeO the vi- uuwuuui ulcwucl uarla uus uuWllLUwu. 1 ve lleAiu ulaL u groups. y tl Ued NEW YORK DAILY NEWS ods of searching. rus from 13 percent of the patients g ' didn't think that was a particularly got to be 50-50." "It's another nail in the coffin of and from 17 percent of the healthy Corey warned that the study's good idea. Perhaps, but all eyes have been NEW YORK evidence that the Epstein-Barr vi- people - a difference they called findings are limited because it "I don't think that just because turned for some time, albeit unoffi- Fashion designer Calvin Klein rus is not a major factor in chronic insignificant. looked at a very small number of West is adjacent to the jail means cially, on what or who will replace was seriously injured Tuesday in a fatigue," said Lawrence Corey, a The study also found that many patients. "I don't want people to that it is a good spot for a new West in its huge building with the fall from a horse on Long Island's professor of medicine at the Uni- of the chronically fatigued patients overinterpret our data," he said, jail," Thune said. "The West site is great river view. posh Hamptons summer resort, au- versity of Washington School of improved over time without treat- adding that the study says nothing probably the most prime piece of Thune, who represents down- thorities said. Medicine in Seattle and one of the ment. Of the 21 patients who about what actually causes chronic real estate we've got. I bet you town on the council, said he didn't It was not immediately clear report's authors. agreed to be followed by research- fatigue. anything within a year there will necessarily believe the building how severe the injuries were.