ST. PAUL-The legislators would more than double the amount earmarked for land acquisition and infrastructure improvements to Minnesota's three biotech zones, including one here, to $40 million.

ST. PAUL-Downtown historic 254-room hotel is getting a major renovation that could cost its owner, the St. Paul Cos., as much as $10 million. It is the first significant renovation since 1990.

MINNEAPOLIS-Ray Harris agrees to sell the classic urban retail center, developed 28 years ago in the Uptown neighborhood, to Cincinnati-based North American Properties.

BLOOMINGTON, MN-The two veterans, Mike Perkins and Chris Simmons, have been made SVPs at Welsh Cos.

MINNEAPOLIS-California is getting the most stores with five, followed by Texas and Illinois with three, as the discount stores continue to be the growth engine for the company.

ROSEVILLE, MN-Rosedale Corporate Plaza also renewed a lease for 61,500 sf with the Minnesota State Lottery, and sign a 3,000 sf lease with American Equities,

BLAINE, MN-Funeral services have been held for Glenn Rehbein, the founder and head of a golf construction firm that provides a variety of other remediation, engineering and utilities work. Rehbein died in an accident in Arizona.

EAGAN, MN-In one of the largest user deals in several years, the maker of industrial cleaners and sanitizers will move its research and development operations to the sprawling 481,000-sf complex that sits on 90 acres in this south suburb.