Subject: Midwest Regional Digest (MWDIG)

August 1, 2003 Milwaukee Journal-SentinelThe Internal Revenue Service plans to leave Reuss Federal Plaza and is searching for 75,000 square feet of office space in downtown Milwaukee. The IRS wants to move from the 89,6000 sf it leases at 310 ...

July 31, 2003 The Wichita EagleMax Cole, majority owner of the Wichita Mall, has signed his first new tenant, close-out discounter Big Lots, to a lease for 31,000 square feet of space. Cole bought the 330,000-sf mall at 4165 E. ...

July 31, 2003Milwaukee Journal-SentinelBank One in early 2004 will move 750 employees from Menomonee Falls, Wis., to its downtown Milwaukee headquarters and will spend $14 million to renovate the building at 111 E. Wisconsin Ave. The move will more than ...

July 31, 2003 The Toledo (Ohio) Blade, July 29Dana Corp.'s lush Dorr Street campus in Toledo, Ohio, is valued at nearly $20 million, but a Michigan rival attempting a debt-ridden hostile takeover of the auto supplier isn't likely to easily ...

July 30, 2003 Chicago Sun TimesChicago developer Albert Friedman plans to move ahead with plans to build an office building in Chicago on the southeast corner of Lake and Clark, an empty tract just west of the Goodman Theatre Center. ...

July 30, 2003 Milwaukee Journal SentinelA 134-acre former rail yard in Milwaukee's Menomonee Valley is being sold to a city agency, which will develop the property into a business park. The tentative agreement between Chicago-based CMC Heartland Partners and the ...

July 29, 2003 Minneapolis Star TribuneA non-jury trial over an ownership dispute in The Mall of America began last month, and testimony in the court hearing continued yesterday. The 11-year-old Bloomington, Minn. Mall's financial performance lags behind those of other ...

July 29, 2003 Chicago TribuneWal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to open its first Chicago location in 2005. The Bentonville, Ark.-based discounter has submitted plans to build a 15,000-square-foot store at 1657 N. Kilpatrick Ave. The West Side location will place the ...

July 28, 2003Business Journal of Minneapolis/St. PaulGeneral Motors Corp. will move a large parts-distribution center from Edina, Minn., to Hudson, Wis., dashing the hopes of Minnesota development officials who had hoped to keep the automaker in the state by luring ...

July 28, 2003 Wichita EagleThe Wichita (Kan.) Area Chamber of Commerce has created a task force set up to explore industrial park options and is expected to recommend next month that the city encourage private developers to create more industrial ...