MINNEAPOLIS-The theater needs to convince the Minnesota Legislature to provide $35 million in state bond financing to help pay for the 225,000-sf building, designed by French architect Jean Nouvel.

MINNEAPOLIS-Kathleen McKenna Harmon, president of McKenna-Harmon Multifamily Marketing, wins the 2001 ARM participant of the year award from Minnesota IREM chapter. She is a past-president of the association.

ST. PAUL, MN-A McKnight Foundation grant of $500,000 will enable the Science Museum of Minnesota to add a 2,000-sf National Park Service visitor facility for the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area.

RICHFIELD, MN-Walser Auto argues that the property was not blighted, a justification used in condemning it for a 1.5-million-sf, $160-million corporate headquarters for the office supply chain. More than 80 other property owners sold out.

ST. PAUL, MN-Steven Nohava will oversee properties that underlie Glaser Financial Group's $2.4-billion loan servicing portfolio. He leaves a St. Cloud, MN property management firm that he co-founded.

ST. PAUL, MN-Metro Transit says the 95-year-old garage on 9.5 acres at Snelling Avenue and I-94 will make way for a new bus garage and other projects to be determined by the Metropolitan Council, city of St. Paul and neighborhood groups.

MINNEAPOLIS-The Minnesota Supreme Court refuses to hear baseball's appeal of two lower court decisions requiring the team to honor its lease at the Metrodome. The Twins were targeted by Major League Baseball for contraction this year.

ST. PAUL, MN-Support from the governor, previously opposed to publicly funding a new ballpark for the Twins, comes on same day Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig backs off contraction for 2002.