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Newspaper Clipping - Newspaper Clipping Scan - Several articles on Eagan businesses. Newpaper clippings dated from 1987 to 2005. - 7/20/1987Eagan residents join bank staff Norwest Bank Old St. Anthony, has announced promotion of tw�l officers at its Eagan office. Cordell Cleveland has been named vice president of commer- cial loans. Lauri Schubert-Kvam was promoted to assistant vice president and branch manager of the Eagan office. Cleveland began his banking career in 1980 and held positions in North Dakota, Edina and St. Paul. He received his bachelor's degree in business administra- tion from the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks and com- pleted the American Bankers Association National Commer- cial Lending School at the University of Oklahoma. He also received commercial lending and retail banking diplomas from the American Institute of Banking. Cleveland joined Norwest Bank Old St. Anthony in July 1985 as a commercial loan officer. Prior to his recent promotion, he was assistant vice president and branch manager of the bank's Eagan office. A resident of Eagan, Cleveland is a member of the Rotary Club of Eagan, the Minnesota Valley Ex- change Club and the Eagan Chamber of Commerce. Schubert-Kvam began her banking career in 1974 as a teller with Norwest Bank Calhoun Isles in Minneapolis. She also served as a customer service represen- tative, personal banking repre- sentative and a senior customer service supervisor. She joined the Eagan office of Norwest Bank Old St. Anthony in 1983 as a consumer banking of- ficer and assistant branch mana- ger. A resident of Eagan, Schubert- Kvam is a member of the Cham- ber of Commerce Red Court. • Red Dot -Special . Eyeglasses ...� QO Q. Complete o $7995 Choose from a selected group of frames with the red dot. Includes eye exam. clear single vision glass or plastic lenses. (Hi-, focals add $20).. fad * iAIWY , ���Y --"7" ►• )PPING ENVIRONMENT DOG TAL EAGAN Wells Fargo relocates tae division 500 will be based at business center BY MEGGEN LINDSAY Pioneer Press Eagan soon will be the new. home to a division of Wells Fargo Home Mortgage: The company is moving its Servicing Integration and Post-, closing Group — along with 500 employees to the city's Spec- trum Commerce Center. The relocation should be• completed by May, placing Wells Fargo among Eagan's 10 largest employers. fortunate "Eagan is very because its business base is very diverse. This move adds to Instead, the Spectrum center's tans proximity to the airport d freeway system sealed the deal. . But Hohenstein said that doesn't mean the city wouldn't offer incentives to other compa- • nies looking to relocate. "We believe it's our job • to provide attractive environments b e• " city Community for businesses and are commit- that a , s ted Development Director Jon to low taxes, . The Servicing Integration Hohenstein said. "It's very tl is housed in healthy for the local and region- rouP cBloomington nand at the Wells al economy." The Wells Fargo back office Fargo Home Mortgage campus division will join Mesaba Air- in The soup processes closed lines and Pan Am 'International Flight Academy at the city's Sees and i al electronic paper y dpru- re- • .300,000-square-foot Spectrum center, at 1000 Blue Gentian ments Road near Minnesota 55. • "The move is yet another vis s Wells Fargo has. begun irate- iblemmmde�mne polls and oof rior construction' at the center, growth which was, built in 2002 with our commitmenttto keeping P vice recycled concrete taken from a • uhe Twin Michael el Levine vice said former Minneapolis -St. Paul president a news release. International Airport' parking garage. en Lindsay can reached Eagan gave no tax or other Me99 Y can be reached economic assistance to bring in at mlindsay@pioneerptess.com Fargo, Hohenstein said: or 651-228-5260. he said ents, Max Schnurrenberger, a sixth -grader reacts as astronaut Salizhan Sharipov laps up bubbles of water floating in the zero gravity atmosphere during the state's first live NASA satellite downlink chat with International Space Station astronauts, set up in the St. Paul school's gymnasium. More than 400 students from five "NASA Explorer Schools" in St. Paul, Minneapolis and Cumberland, Wis., gathered at Crossroads to watch the live image of astronauts Sharipov and Leroy Chiao and to ask them questions. above the United States. There were scientific ques- tions about the work the crew is doing. Many of the experiments rely on the space station's lack of gravity, though tiny distur- bances can affect those experi- ments and need to be measured. Anthony Johnson, a fifth -grader at Crossroads, asked how those studies could help humans. Commander Chiao told him they're studying how those dis- turbances affect the growth of crystals, which can be used in medical drugs. Other questions came with more pure entertainment value. Amanda Wells, a third -grader at Crossroads, asked Chiao how they pour water into a cup. "And show us," she said. Ready with props, Chiao told them you can't pour liquid into a cup in space. He then grabbed a squirt bag and shot a small, cir- cular blob of orange juice into the air. He let it float for several seconds before snatching it up in his mouth. The International Space Sta- tion is a combined effort involv- ing 16 nations, led by the United States. Construction started in 1998 and the station, which is powered by an acre of solar pan- els, was first inhabited Oct. 31, 2000. The astronauts currently aboard as part of Expedition 10 were launched from Kaza- khstan in a Soyuz spacecraft Oct. 13, 2004. They're set to return to Earth in late April. St. Paul students from Cross- roads Elementary and Farnsworth Aerospace Magnet Elementary participated in Tuesday's downlink, along with students from two schools in Minneapolis and from Cumber- land Middle School in Wiscon- sin. Elsa Lexen, a seventh -grader from Cumberland, was among those waiting in line Tuesday to ask a question. She wanted to know if oil and vinegar separate as fast in space as they do on Earth, due to the lower gravity aboard the space station. Time ran out before she got her turn. Afterward, she said she was disappointed but added that it was still worth the trip from Wisconsin. She liked the astronauts' answers, and the orange juice demonstration in particular. "It was cool to talk to them," she said. John Welbes can be reached at jwelbes@pioneerpress.com or 651-228-2175. 03/v3/21905- www.mnSun.com Eagan gaining 500 jobs Ydells Fargo moving some mortgage services to Spectrum Center BY JOSHUA NICHOLS Sun Newspapers The development first made news for an unprecedented recycling effort three years ago and it's in the news again as the future home of the newest entrant on Eagan's top 10 employer list. The Spectrum Commerce Center will be home to Wells Fargo Home Mort- gage's Servicing Integration and Post Closing Group and more than 500 em- ployees sometime this spring. The northern Eagan development, which is owned by Spectrum Develop- ment Group, was constructed using ma- terials that were once part of a parking garage at the Minneapolis -St. Paul Inter- national Airport. The building, 1000 Blue Gentian Road, is also home to Mesaba Airlines and Pan Am International Flight Academy. Wells Fargo's portion of the building will fea- ture 140,000 square feet of space when the interior is completed. The move will im- mediately place Wells Fargo among the city's top employers, said Tom Garrison, Eagan communications director. "It's great for Eagan," Garrison said. "When you think that this will instantly go onto the city's top 10 list of employers, the impact on the city is easy to see." Wells Fargo Home Mortgage will manage documents, process closed loans and electronically preserve original paper documents at the Eagan location. Wells Fargo currently houses the op- eration at office space in Bloomington as well as at its campus in Minneapolis, said Michael Levine, vice president of servicing integration. Interstate 494 Spectrum Commerce Center Levine said the move will benefit Wells Fargo Home Mortgage and espe- cially his group because it will unite all its workers in one location. "The move is yet another visible re- minder of Wells Fargo's growth in Min- neapolis and of our commitment to keep- ing jobs in the Twin Cities," he said. The move helps out Eagan by contin- uing to contribute to its diverse business environment, said John Hohenstein, Eagan's community development direc- tor. "The city has a great and diverse busi- ness base and is very fortunate in that sense," Hohenstein said. The seeds for the Spectrum Com- merce Center development, which is near Highway 55, began in 1998 with the planned demolition of two rental car garages at the airport. JOBS: To Page 16A SUN Eagan edition NEWS NOTES March 3, 2005 More charges filed in death Additional felony charges have been filed against the teens and young adults involved in the brawl that broke out at Apple Valleys Hunt- ington Park the morning of Dec. 19, which led to the fatal shooting of 17- year-old Eagan resi- dent Shawn Ferber. PAGE 7A District looks at budget The complexities in school finance were on full display Feb. 22 as the District 197 School Board reviewed nine projections of potential budget changes for next year. Business Services Director Carl Colmark used such things as state funding, enrollment numbers and teacher compensa- tion to put together the projections, each of Cu Remembering Jairam Ganpat charged Feb. 24 with two counts of murder in strangling death of Eagan woman BY JOSHUA NICHOLS Sun Newspapers A few days before the man accused of killing her mother was charged, 17-year-old Vanessa Persaud remembered her mother's love for collecting angel statues. "She loved to collect them and even though Marissa it was too soon, she is now with angels in heav- en," Vanessa said. "My mother will always be nection a part of my life and she will live on in my two cou memory forever." County www.mnSun.com -Charge 'From Page 7A Three 'additional teens, whose names. were not releasedbecause of their age, were charged with second degree con- spiracy to commit assault. Two also re- ceived charges of riot in the second de- gree and one was charged with riot in the first degree . . According the criminal complaint filed with the Dakota County Attorney's Office: On Friday Dec.17, a' confrontation oc- curred.between.the group of teens.from Apple Valley and Eagan and others from Blaine and Ham Lake during a party in • St. Paul. The encounter 'continued at a gas.station where individuals damaged Shawn Ferber's car. Later, ;members of ;the_;two groups agreed to meet regarding a possible drug deal. They. chose :the location of Hunt-; , - syouths and assault them. with meta pipes, knives, brass knuckles,=-a.brak rotor, a portion of a pool cue and a larg, ice scraper. Prior to going to Apple Valley, on Dec 18, Morin purchased ammunition for .22-caliber handgun he had in his posseE Sion .and Peil made' unsuccessful a1 tempts to obtain a gun. Shortly befor midnight Dec: 18, Morin, Pell, two othe. males and two 16-year-old girls drove ti • Huntington Park. At the park, several teens hid in the woods and bushes while others waited n a car hidden behind a park building'witl the intent.to•block the exit for the Blain and Ham Lake teens. . • . - , • After arriving, Morin parked his pick up .truck next to a passenger •car con taining two Apple Valley. teens, -Rya: Raymond and Brent Greene. Then, 'an other :Apple .Valley car driven by Joi Gruender blocked the .truck's exit an( • several youth, many with weapons, came out of the woods and surrounded Mori] • and Peil who .had exited their vehicle www.mnSun.com Jobs From Page 2A However, that demolition never hap- pened, instead replaced by a careful disassembly of the garages for Spec- trum. Although Spectrum did not yet have a use planned for the recycled material, it held onto the material to be used with another project some day. That project came along in 2001, when Spectrum began construction of the center. The parking garage pieces were pulled from storage and used to build part of the first level of the complex and all the second level. The triangular -shaped facility fea- tures 300,000 square feet of office space and the covered parking space serves nearly 2,000 cars. EAGAN'S TOP EMPLOYERS West — 7,000 Blue Cross/Blue Shield — 3,000 Lockheed Martin — 1,750 United Parcel Service — 1,435 Northwest Airlines — 1,100 Cray Research — 900 Coca-Cola Bottling Co. — 885 Unisys Corp. — 736 U.S. Postal Service — 680 Kraft American — 400 Source: Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development Wells Fargo is currently working on the interior of the facility and expects to have its operations running by May, Levine said. "We're eager to get it done and get in there," Levine said. "It's going to be a great facility and we can't wait to call Eagan home."