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Downtown Minneapolis' stalled West Hotel project is back on track after resolving financing issues. After Edina-based Onward Investors stepped in to assist developer Minneapolis-based Commutator LLC ...

The North Loop’s West Hotel development has been sitting, shuttered, since last summer when challenges with a lender brought the project to a halt. Despite rampant rumormongering in the development ...