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r__ ..__.._.,.,._..............b.....,.,. ..., uuuua '- , cGl11LL111Cl11-lll;ll STAFF WRITER "You should have seen it. It was a and bymiTT thvere tt will.1cQ1tanks1GU fulluY, wastewater When the founders of Urban nightmare," said Fred Haberman, a of tilapia and racks lined with fresh from the fish Organics first visited the old Hamm's local public relations executive who is lettuce and herbs. will be pumped brewery on the east side of St.Paul a part of the Urban Organics team. Urban Organics will use an agricul- to the produce year ago, the long-vacant building But Haberinan and his partners saw tural technique known as aquaponics, growing on the racks above, and the was in disrepair.The walls were coy IF year-old build- a symbiotic marriage of aquaculture plants then act as a filter for the water ered with graffiti and thea w,e ni]P i— ,forming it (raising fish in tanks) and hydropon- before it returns to the fish tanks. of trash left behind by home,ess pew ' -m. Most of ics (growing plants in water). The FARM I PAGE 23 " a= Promise of data-center building boom is sputtering g targeted: BY SAM BLACK new or refurbished data center that rtup'S Cancer-fighting plan STAFF WRITER FYI y r � <�°" s involves at least 30,000 square feet of n't work,so it goes fishing. An expected boom in data-center *"" r r"..z," space and$50 million in investment. construction in the Twin Cities has So far,no projects have been able to iovationM N 16 been slow to materialize despite all it meet those thresholds. has going for it—prepped sites,gov- The first big deal to be announced ernment incentives and favorable na- was in November 2011, when tional trends. PROVIDED BY COLLIERS INTERNATIONAL I MINNEAPOLIS-ST PAUL Charlotte,N.C.-based Five 9s Digital Three large data center projects— M.A.Mortenson has proposed this 125,000-square-foot data said it would develop a $75 million in Washington, Carver and Dakota center in Chaska,but it won't break ground without a tenant. to $100 million, 138,000-square-foot OEX ON PAGE 3 a counties — have been proposed by data center in Eagan that would open developers, but haven't moved be- even with the help of 2011 tax breaks The 2011 law exempts companies in the third quarter of 2012. yond the marketing stage because passed by the Legislature aimed at from paying Minnesota sales tax on Five 9s let its option expire in August there hasnt been enough demand, landing such projects. all purchases of equipment for any DATA CENTERS i PAGE 23 New faces at corporate boards raise costs BY TOM SMITH AND JIM HAMMERAND members,including Best Buy Co.Inc. drop-off at the bottom. STAFF WRITERS and Imation Corp.,and consequently Overall, 16 companies gave pay in- Four Minnesota companies in- paid less in compensation. creases to their boards,and nine paid creased pay to their boards by more Overall, the total compensation less.Furthermore,15 of the 25 report- x �, than 25 percent in their last fiscal year, represented on the Minneapolis/St. ed at least one departure during the largely to bring on.fresh talent. The Paul Business Journars annual Top fiscal year we studied.That 60 percent r ..+ biggest increases were at ValueVision 25 List of the highest-paid corporate ratio tracks with national numbers S0,11tions Il 00 0010S. p Media Inc. and Northern Oil and boards rose by 6 percent this year.A compiled by Equilar.A majority of the Gas Inc. On the other hand, several more significant trend,however,is the S&P 1,500 companies it studied (781 Z public-company boards dropped sharp rise in board pay at the top and BOARDS i PAGE 9 w0 " Providing the people to power technology. U We are specialists in interim staffing,search and. Br contingent workforce management. a 30 ainpower. k 'x 0! hWA a,M� TECHNOLOGY SERVICES" 5 . warets.com • 612.373.5747 74470 97027 9 Digital People I Hunter Hamilton I Pro Staff I Ware 't