Home Page Company Information Ownership Awards & Articles Properties Developed Development Philosophy Insurance Information Affordable Housing Video Contact Information Site Map Rental Property Info Publication Article Winona Daily News By Shannon Fiecke, Winona Daily News Revisiting the old stomping grounds Many kids hope to never return to school once they graduate. Jim Turner not only came back to his old stomping grounds, he's living in them. After moving to Winona from... Click here to read more Winona Post By Cynthya Porter Old Middle School Gets Historic Register Label (Photo by Cynthia DeLano) Newly named to the National Register of Historic Places, the old Winona Middle School buildings, now called Washington Crossing, are nearing the end of a long renovation process transforming them into apartments.... Click here to read more Star News July 12, 2004 By Jake Muonio, Staff writer Project 30 years in the making It’s official. The Elk River City Council and Housing and Redevelopment Authority (HRA) approved a developer’s agreement for the downtown revitalization project Monday night. The decision means 3... Click here to read more Winona Daily News By Anne Jungen, Winona Daily News Schools' 'historical accents' flavor apartment complex The old classrooms of the Winona Junior and Senior high schools now are the classy rooms of the Washington Crossing apartments. After 15 months of restoration, the Washington Crossing apartments, 166 and 218 W. Broadway ... Click here to read more Winona Daily News By Darrell Ehrlick, Winona Daily News Grand opening ushers in new era John Errigo started Washington Crossings grand opening by saying, "It's been a long time coming." Try about 89 years. Errigo, the development coordinator for the St.... Click here to read more Bismarck Tribune Mandan's Library Square Dedicated Bismarck, ND - For Mandan Mayor Ken LaMont, Tuesday was an emotional day he said. "We're seeing the beginning of where we want to go," he said. Lamont was speaking at the dedication of Library Square, a $5 million, four-story apartment building ... Click here to read more The Business Journal Elk River Prepares to Renew its Downtown Minneapolis, MN – Elk River is closer to redeveloping its downtown than it has been for 30 years. The city has launched an effort to revitalize the entire 67 acre central business district over the next 10 years through rehabilitating and removing pr... Click here to read more Affordable Housing Finance The House That Carry Smashed Affordable Housing Finance Magazine, 2000 (Reprinted with permission. for subscription information call 800-989-7255. www.housingfinance.com Wichita, Kan. – Renovation and expansion of the h... Click here to read more Affordable Housing Finance Great Plains Success Story Tenacity pays off for Developer of Small-town Landmarks Affordable Housing Finance Magazine, 2000 (Reprinted with permission. For subscription information call 800-989-7255. www.housingfinance.com Click here to read more Rogers County Historical Society, 1999 The Hotel Will Rogers The Hotel Will Rogers was dedicated February 7, 1930. The three owners, Louis Abraham, Walter Krumrei, and Morton Harrison joined forces to make the hotel a reality. Joe Abraham, Louis' father, had come to Claremore to take mineral water baths and was cur... Click here to read more Grand Forks Herald, 1998 By Sam Black, Herald Staff Writer Does Your Favorite Old Building Need a Facelift? To many small towns, a corporation like MetroPlains Development would seem too good to be true. The St. Paul company swoops into small towns and saves abandoned or decaying buildings from the wrecking ball. It then remodels the buildings and turns them int... Click here to read more The Wichita Eagle, 1998 By Beccy Tanner Council selects developer for Eaton A Minnesota based developer with a record of turning historic properties into usable real estate was given the job Tuesday of funding a way to restore the 111-year-old Eaton Hotel and the block where it sits. By a 6-0 vote, the City Council ga... Click here to read more Brainard Daily Dispatch (MN) By Brad McDermott, Staff Writer Buckman Renovation Finished LITTLE Falls - The Buckman Building in downtown Little Falls has undergone a facelift and it now is smiling on some of the city’s senior citizens. Actually, it may be more accurate to say the 94-year-old building has had full-body plasti... Click here to read more Minnesota Real Estate Journal By Liz Wolf Spruce Tree Centre Has New Owners - Plans to reposition The easily distinguishable Spruce Tree Centre mixed-use building, with its green tile-looking exterior has been sold for $2.75 million. The buyer is Spruce Tree Centre LLP of which St. Paul-based MetroPlains Development Inc is the managing partner. Click here to read more Historic Preservation News June 1, 1993 By Frank Jossi Housing the Heartland St. Paul, Minn – In 1978 the Great Northern Hotel in Devil’s Lake. N.D, looked as though it would suffer the fate of the many grand historic hotels that dot the landscape of rural midwestern towns. The vintage 1911 buildi... Click here to read more StarTribune January 17, 1993 By Dick Youngblood Historic Buildings Finding New Life As Housing Sites Gary Stenson and his partners are wheeling and dealing all over my old North Dakota stomping grounds, not to mention neighboring South Dakota and Minnesota, with occasional forays into Wisconsin, Kansas and Nebraska. In... Click here to read more     © 2008 Metro Plains | Site Map