MENDOTA HEIGHTS, MN-Brown College, a private trade school, is moving its campus to the Mendota Tech Center. The college is drastically shrinking its space, going from almost 130,000 square feet it currently has on 18 acres at 1440 Northland Dr. to a 55,263-square-foot building at 1345 Mendota Heights Rd.

NorthMarq represented the building owner. Dan Gleason, an SVP with NorthMarq, tells GlobeSt.com that the college wanted to gain efficiency of space. “This is a better for them, being all in a one-story facility,” he says. Tony DelDotto and Anita Veith with NorthMarq assisted on the deal, and Charlie Snyder and Nathan Lamb with CB Richard Ellis represented the college.

The new facility had been the headquarters of computer firm Cray Inc. until the firm moved to downtown St. Paul in January 2010. Gleason says the building has been completely gutted to allow Brown to build out classrooms, labs, studios and office spaces. The college will move to the flex park in August for a long-term lease. The college has a satellite office in Brooklyn Center, MN.