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.
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)PPING ENVIRONMENT
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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
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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
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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
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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-
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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.
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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
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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
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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."