The Star Tribune recently covered聽the start of construction on the Norman and Evangeline Hagfors Center for Science, Business, and Religion — Augsburg College’s much anticipated聽interdisciplinary academic building scheduled to聽open in January 2018. The article notes that the capital campaign for this building project was the most successful in the College’s history and so far has generated聽$54 million, which is eight times more than Augsburg has ever raised.
The story also acknowledges the generosity of the building’s lead donors, describing聽Norm Hagfor’s career success聽and the decades-long connection the Hagfors family developed with Augsburg.
Read聽Augsburg College starts construction on business-science-religion complex on the Star Tribune website.
A housing project being developed by Augsburg alumnus Devean George ’99 was one of several items featured in a Star Tribune business column. The piece described George’s recent talk at an annual fundraiser for a North Side land trust that works to help families buy refurbished homes. George, who retired from the NBA in 2011, is readying to break ground on a multi-use project that will offer retail space and apartments in the neighborhood in which he was raised. Read Neal St. Anthony’s column, “Horizontal Integration of Minnetonka praised for sustained growth.”