Echoing worldwide reports that attracting and retaining employees is a key concern for business today, Erin Wendorf, a vice president with Transwestern, noted late last year that Minneapolis is likely to benefit from a "suburban to urban" migration because of the nearby amenities that a downtown location offers. The city's strong economy, its robust absorption of existing office space, and the current projects already underway, point to continuing market strength, positioning the city nicely to respond to a need for more "personalized" office space.
A panel of experts that met to discuss the future of speculative building agreed that the future lies more in build to suit than in continued growth of the speculative market. That, in some ways,
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