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A strong business community is key for businesses to grow, retain, and expand as well as attract new businesses to the area. The City of Shoreview works hard to help build that strong community by offering resources, networking events, education opportunities and communication between businesses and city officials.  One example o...Continue Reading

Why do businesses and residents choose to call Shoreview “home”? Could it be because of the nationally-ranked public school options? How about the abundance of green space, parks, lakes and trails? Maybe it’s because of the convenient location and close proximity to downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul?  The answer to thes...Continue Reading

Shoreview offers a high quality of life to its 27,000 residents. In fact, the city was named by Family Circle Magazine as one of the “Ten Best Towns in America to Raise a Family.” And, it’s easy to see why. Families choose to move to Shoreview for the top-rated public schoo...Continue Reading

Is your business prepared for the impacts of COVID-19? Are your employees prepared for the impacts of COVID-19? The City has compiled the following resources for you as we navigate this unprecedented time. We will update this as more sources and information become available.    Interim Guidance for Businesses and Employers (Centers for Disease Control...Continue Reading

Ramsey County is leading the development of an comprehensive economic development strategy, centered around equitable growth and strengthening economic competitiveness. Led by the County with the help of a suite of local and national consultants, the plan will consist of in-depth analysis of the County’s economy: a market and industry cluste...Continue Reading

MSP International Named Best Airport in North America for Fourth Consecutive Year For the fourth straight year, Airports Council International (ACI) has named Minneapolis-St. Paul International (MSP) the Best Airport in North America in the 25-40 million passenger category. Airports are scored based on customer surveys conducted at airports in 91 countrie...Continue Reading

The Automation Training Incentive Pilot Program offers grants up to $25,000 to Minnesota businesses that have 100 or fewer full-time employees, are in the manufacturing or skilled assembly production industry, and have recently invested in new automation technology or plans to invest in new automation technology. The training is for existing jobs tha...Continue Reading

Nearly all Minnesota manufacturers (94%) who responded to a recent survey expect employment in their company to remain the same or go up during 2020. That’s according to the Manufacturing Business Conditions Survey released yesterday by DEED and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.  However, despite the need for new employees in manufacturing, gaps between th...Continue Reading

Nearly all Minnesota manufacturers (94%) who responded to a recent survey expect employment in their company to remain the same or go up during 2020. That’s according to the Manufacturing Business Conditions Survey released yesterday by DEED and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.  However, despite the need for new employees in manufacturing, gaps between th...Continue Reading

Nearly 40 million passengers passed through Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in 2019, an all-time record for the airport. MSP airport tallied nearly 38.4 million ticket-holding passengers in 2019, an increase of more than 4 percent over 2018. The grand total also includes 1.2 million non-revenue passengers, typically airline employees. It was th...Continue Reading

BOLD GOALS WILL POSITION THE REGION FOR LONG-TERM SUCCESS IN AN INCREASINGLY GLOBAL ECONOMY St. Paul, Minn.—(Nov. 11, 2019)—At its annual meeting yesterday, the GREATER MSP Partnership announced 10-year economic ambitions in three of nine priority areas for the Greater MSP region: job growth, talent retention and attraction, and startups an...Continue Reading

New Hampshire is the top state for opportunity. It’s followed by Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota and Maryland to round out the top five. Five of the 10 states with the best opportunity also rank among the top 10 Best States overall. Read the full article here »Continue Reading