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The (Many) Virtues of Working For a Broker With a National Footprint, Great Relocation Department

Arranging Local Office Privileges Out-of-Town, or, “The Goldilocks Solution” If you’re a busy agent (I am) who has multiple social obligations (I do), it can be important, if/when you travel, to line up office privileges at a sister broker. Headed to the Bay Area for 48 hours this weekend, I spoke with Irene Wright in Edina Realty’s...
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Design Flair? That, Too

Vertical Bike Stands in Downtown Palo Alto Once upon a time — like in the late ’70’s, when I was a Stanford undergrad — neighboring University Ave. definitely wasn’t seedy, but it was no one’s idea of upscale, either:  after all, the low-rent University Creamery was practically an anchor tenant (still the best chocolate shake...
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The Big Dig — St. Paul Version

Retail No-Man’s Land Count me amongst the Twin Citians that had no idea that the next leg of  the Twin Cities’ light rail system — the Central Corridor along University Ave. — was so far along. Traveling in the area this morning, I had expected to see a couple blocks under construction, with the attendant traffic snafus....
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