BLOOMINGTON, MN-The Minnesota convenience store and gasoline station chain bought 26 stores from Tulsa, OK-based Williams Express, and will convert them to Holiday Stationstores.

BLOOMINGTON, MN-The sporting goods retailer would use net proceeds to pay down some of its $110 million in debt and open more 80,000-sf stores, as it is doing in suburban Detroit.

MINNEAPOLIS-The site was the long-time location of an industrial dry-cleaning facility and a gasoline station. Redevelopment plans include a variety of commercial uses, 15 housing units and surface parking.

MINNEAPOLIS-The restaurant franchise says it will spend $19 million this year to open 20 new restaurants and renovate and maintain existing ones. It also plans to open 45 franchised units. The chain thinks it could support more than 1,000 units.

BLOOMINGTON, MN-The company paid $7.1 million for the facility two years ago from Seagate and had at one time contemplated it for its headquarters campus. The company has not decided if it will lease or sell the property.

ROSEVILLE MN-The Villas At Midland Hills will include a three-story, 32-unit condominium building and six townhomes. Townhome construction is expected to begin this summer and condominium construction will start this fall.

OAKDALE, MN-The Minnetonka-based commercial real estate company will develop multi-story office, flex, warehouse and office condominium space on 55 acres at the northeast quadrant of I-94 and I-694. Welsh Cos.' St. Paul office will market the property.

MINNEAPOLIS-South Dakota-based Furniture Outlets has two 45,000-sf Ashley stores under construction in Fridley and Shakopee, and also plans to open by year-end Ashley stores in Maplewood and Woodbury.