SHAKOPEE, MN-The new version of the legislation would allow two casinos to be built at Canterbury Park's 380-acre Shakopee location, one operated by Canterbury Park and the other by Minnesota's Northern Tribes. Under the new model, Canterbury Park would be required to pay a $150-million up-front fee to the state, $50-million more than previously proposed.

MINNEAPOLIS-Occupancy levels are at 68.7%, up from 61.9% a year ago, according to a report Twin Cities hotel market from the Minneapolis office of GVA Marquette Advisors, a real estate consulting firm.

MINNEAPOLIS-Twins owner Carl Pohlad and Hennepin County will ask for state permission to increase the local sales tax for a Warehouse District ballpark downtown.

MINNEAPOLIS-Twins owner Carl Pohlad and Hennepin County will ask for state permission to increase the local sales tax for a Warehouse District ballpark downtown.

MINNEAPOLIS-Joseph Gearen, previously with Equity Commercial Services, is now responsible for marketing and leasing First Industrial's 5.5 million-sf portfolio in the Twin Cities region.

EAGAN, MN-After 1 1/2 years of revising and presenting plans, Toll Brothers of Pennsylvania won approval for the 95-unit housing development. However, Toll has some environmental clean up to do before construction starts, and opponents could appeal the decision to an environmental review board.

BURNSVILLE, MN-The sale was spurred by sudden death last year of a founder of Gramercy Corp., which developed 10 senior housing projects, as well as the 76-unit Gramercy Club of Burnsville and the 51-unit Gramercy Club of Chaska.

BROOLYN CENTER, MN-The city recently hired the consulting firm to complete a study on a 90-acre area bounded by 57th Avenue on the south, Summit Drive on the north, Highway 100 on the east, and Shingle Creek Parkway on the west.