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Elk Run developer CEO gets medieval on MedCity News

When you're the president and CEO of a major national real estate development firm, it's best to develop a thick skin. It's also probably not a good idea to post public comments to a news website when you're pissed off at 1 o'clock in the morning. Yet that's exactly what Steve Marks, CEO of Tower Investments in California did upon reading my story Tuesday on the troubled Elk Run BioBusiness Park his company is developing in Pine Island, Minnesota.

By Thomas Lee
News

Will God save the Elk Run BioBusiness Park project in Minnesota?

"There are two things that we know about the universe," Abraham Algadi said. "We can only control the things we can control. The rest, we leave to a higher power." Algadi is not a priest or philosopher, at least professionally. Algadi, the city administrator for Pine Island, Minnesota, was referring to the fate of the much maligned, often delayed Elk Run BioBusiness Park.

By Thomas Lee
News

Elk Run project taps real estate giant to market property

Backers of the Elk Run BioBusiness Park in Pine Island, Minnesota have hired the Minneapolis office of CB Richard Ellis to recruit tenants for the 200 acre property. CB Richard Ellis, the nation’s largest commercial firm, recently established a LifeScience team based in Minneapolis to focus on biotechnology, pharma, health care, and medical device industries. […]

By Thomas Lee