It has been an exciting year for us at the Minnesota Real Estate Journal and for the Commercial Real Estate Industry in our great state. And it seems we all have even bigger and brighter plans for 2018. Over the course of the last twelve months, after purchasing the Minnesota Real Estate Journal and Real Estate Summits, we have produced more than 60 live educational and networking summits across ten states. More than 10,000 people have attended one of those summits and heard from some of our 750 industry-leading speakers. And we have ambitious expansion plans for 2018. First of all, we want to renew our focus on delivering Minnesota CRE news, not just in our print publication, but also by enhancing our website, delivering more frequent news emails and by making the most of the new features on LinkedIn. In order to accomplish those things, we need your help. Please continue to send us your press releases or just drop us a note with what you are excited about, who you recently hired, or a project that just got inked. Feel free to reach out to me, Jay, Alan or Todd with your story ideas, guest columns, and events. We need you to make our business the best it can be. We also plan to continue our growth across the Midwest. In 2017, we held events in Wisconsin, Indiana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Missouri and Texas, to name a few. We intend to offer more events in those markets and add Ohio to our list of states. If you also do business in any of those markets, reach out and let’s find a way to collaborate. Even more exciting, 2017 turned out to be a great year for the CRE industry as a whole in Minnesota. We were thrilled to see a number of projects come to fruition in both Downtowns and see a number of plans come together at the Mall of America and areas like Edina and the West End. It seems as though there is a never-ending stream of exciting projects announced every month. We applaud each of you, for it is these projects that are the lifeblood of our industry and you lead the landscape of our next generation. Finally, we hope that you had a great year individually. If you are like many of our clients, you were as busy and productive as ever and have big plans like us for the coming year. Keep up the good work!
From me, Jeff Johnson, and on behalf of all of us at the Minnesota Real Estate Journal, we wish you a happy and prosperous new year!
