NEW BRIGHTON, MN-The bill before the Minnesota Legislature would allow the city more flexibility in providing tax increment financing as the various phases of the company's expansion unfold.

BROOKLYN PARK, MN-The struggling leather goods retailer, with 460 stores, had already announced plans to close 110 stores and strikes a deal with four lenders on its revolving credit line.

EDINA, MN-The hair care salon agrees to buy Holiday Hair, a chain of 153 salons located primarily in Pennsylvania. The chain has also bought 115 other salons in the last quarter and had 9,886 salons at the end of March.

CHANHASSEN, MN-A partnership of three local faith-based organizations are building a $28-million residential campus for older adults at 525 Lake Dr.

SHAKOPEE, MN-The $185-million mixed-use project on 273 acres features an 84-acre conservation area as well as residential, retail, office and high-finish industrial buildings, one the largest mixed-use developments in the Twin Cities' southwest region.

MINNETONKA, MN-The medical imaging device firm signs a 60,000-sf lease at Pondview Plaza, and will move its headquarters and operations there by February. The complex, 60% vacant a year ago, is now 98% leased.

MINNEAPOLIS--The marquee one-million-sf building in Downtown will be marketed by Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, LP and Northstar Partners of Minneapolis on behalf of the owner, a Minnesota limited partnership advised by ING Clarion Partners.

MINNEAPOLIS-A $50-million gift from Best Buy founder and former chief executive officer Richard Schulze will be tapped for a four-story building to be constructed by Opus Corp.