Regular readers of our Minnesota Commercial Property Tax Appeals Blog will recall we recently published a post asking if a hike to commercial property taxes is coming. This is the second post in that three-part series. Lining up Battle lines have been drawn as local...
Month: March 2021
Part I: Are commercial property tax hikes coming?
State, county and city governments are being subjected to unprecedented budgetary strains by the pandemic and the ways in which it has altered how the nation works, shops, dines out and finds entertainment. Twenty-six states reported budget shortfalls last year,...
Downtown Minneapolis after a year of pandemic
There is little disagreement about the economic importance of Minneapolis to the metro area and the rest of Minnesota. And there’s no disputing that the city’s most economically vital area is downtown. While that small, vital section of the city enjoyed prosperity for...
Cities grappling with pandemic’s erosion of commercial property values
For more than a year, the pandemic has raged across the nation’s $16 trillion commercial property sector, darkening skyscrapers, shuttering shopping malls and shrinking restaurants down to takeout services. Social distancing measures and telecommuting have put...
