March 14, 2013
Mayo Clinic bill runs into unfriendly territory
The Mayo Clinic’s multibillion-dollar expansion, which relies on a hefty dose of state funding, has its supporters, but one of them isn’t Ann Lenczewski. And she’s the one running the Minnesota House committee that the clinic’s plan has to get through. Rep. Lenczewski, DFL-Bloomington,blasted Mayo’s request for $500 million in taxpayer funding as a “massive public subsidy” that would raise […]
Tags: Mayo Clinic bill, Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal, public subsidy, Rep. Ann Lenczewski, state funding, taxpayer funding
March 14, 2013
Heard on the Street: Mayo Clinic’s Business Accelerator tenants rolling along
At the start of this month, the new Mayo Clinic Business Accelerator was launched in downtown Rochester as a publicly-subsidized, low-cost space to nurture early start-up companies to help them grow into local job-generating firms. Right now, the nine tenants with signed leases are paying a total of $3,000 a month, or $1.20 per square foot, for […]
Tags: local jobs, Mayo Clinic Business Accelerator, Post Bulletin, public subsidy, start-up companies
March 13, 2013
Mayo Clinic bill called ‘massive public subsidy’ by Minnesota House tax panel chair
The chair of the House Tax Committee blasted plans to spend more than $500 million in taxpayer funds on infrastructure projects in Rochester to support growth at the Mayo Clinic…”It’s allowing one developer to carve out the income and sales taxes in the city of Rochester for their benefit,” Lenczewski said. “That means a tax […]
Tags: House Tax Committee, infrastructure, Mayo Clinic bill, Pioneer Press, public subsidy, taxpayer funds
February 7, 2013
Mayo Clinic expansion bill introduced
A bill that would give the Mayo Clinic $585 million in taxpayer money to develop downtown Rochester has been introduced at the Legislature…Rep. Kim Norton, DFL-Rochester, is the chief author of the House bill. She says the public subsidy is needed to support Mayo’s private spending. “It’s going to be kind of fast and furious in the […]
Tags: downtown Rochester, MPR, private spending, public subsidy, Rep. Kim Norton, taxpayer money