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• <br /> Mounds View Business Toolbox <br /> The City of Mounds View wants to work in partnership with Mounds View businesses. <br /> There are various resources and services to help businesses get started and grow. <br /> Mounds View's Business Toolbox can help your business access resources for new <br /> development and expansion, find skilled employees, train your employees and more. <br /> For more information about these programs and services, you may contact Aaron <br /> Backman at 763-717-4029. <br /> The City of Mounds View welcomes the opportunity to attract high-quality businesses to <br /> the community. Since the 1980's the City has provided financial and technical assistance <br /> to large and small companies to locate or expand in Mounds View. <br /> Some of the projects since 2000 have included warehouse and parking expansions <br /> valued at over $4.2 million of SYSCO Minnesota; a $10 million expansion of The <br /> Mermaid (adding a hotel and conference area, etc.), and a $1.5 million facility expansion <br /> for manufacturer C.G. Hill & Sons; the relocation to the City of Mounds View of Colonial <br /> Craft (adding over 200 jobs), Blooming Prairie Natural Foods (now Albert's Organics), <br /> Minnesota Institute of Public Health (MIPH), and Let's Get Graphic; the construction of <br /> the Highway 10 Business Center, Edgewood and Long Lake Commerce Centers, <br /> . Caribou Coffee, Snyders Drug Store, CVS Pharmacy, and Walgreen's; and the current <br /> renovation of Mounds View Square. A recent sizeable project is the ongoing construction <br /> of the new $96+ million corporate campus for Medtronic that in the first phase will employ <br /> approximately 4,000 persons and encompass 1.2 million square feet of office and <br /> laboratory space. The campus is projected to open in the fall of 2007. <br /> If you do business in Mounds View or if you would like to in the future, the City's Business <br /> Toolbox has a range of resources and services that you can tap into. We offer or can <br /> connect you with the following business assistance: <br /> A. Site Location Assistance <br /> B. Development Review Services <br /> C. Business Finance Loans & Grants <br /> D. Workforce Development Programs <br /> E. Business Development Programs <br /> Economic Development staff will work to access both internal and external resources to <br /> meet your company's expansion and relocation needs. For the appropriate staff person, <br /> you may contact the Mounds View's Community Development Department at 763-717- <br /> 4020. <br /> • <br />