Katie Galioto

A data center in the Sleep Number headquarters helped that building sell at a premium. Some city leaders are pushing for more, even as the City Council passed a six-month moratorium, though exempted downtown from it.

Downtown Minneapolis building owners struggling with a glut of vacant office space are chasing data centers as a potential solution to their financial woes

Minneapolis-based Novarum Development Partners’ also plans retail, health care and educational pieces for the 25-acre site in a plan that could cost $500 million.

Novarum will turn the campus, which used to hold Wells Fargo's mortgage division and Honeywell headquarters before that, into housing, retail, health care and educational space. The plan could cost $500 million.

The downtown Minneapolis office building faces remains largely vacant, but developer 601 W struck a deal with its lender to restructure the property’s debt.

In downtown Minneapolis' Young-Quinlan Building, Lee Bowser sees commuters through the ups and downs of their workdays.

Inside the century-old Young-Quinlan Building in downtown Minneapolis, Lee Bowser is the last known elevator operator in Minnesota serving office workers.

MINNEAPOLIS -- A buzz and a red light on the panel alerts Lee Bowser that his elevator is being summoned.

Lee Bowser can be found ferrying people up and down in the century-old, pewter-and-brass car every Tuesday through Thursday.

MINNEAPOLIS — A buzz and a red light on the panel alerts Lee Bowser that his elevator is being summoned.