The University of Minnesota paid $2.1 million for the 34,000-square-foot former YMCA parking lot at 709 First Ave. SW on Oct. 10. It has been buying land in that area for a future campus since 2009.
As part of its “master plan” to eventually develop a Rochester downtown campus, the University of Minnesota Rochester recently paid $770,000 for the former Running Room building and land at 711 S. Broadway.
A four-inch tall soapstone seal unearthed from the possession of a deceased ambassador who spent his retirement seeking Imperial China antiques in Britain's auction houses and private collections was sold for nearly £15 million.
During the 1950s and 1960s, Dr Wou Kiuan, who died in 1997 and worked in the Chinese Embassy in London before retiring to the UK, amassed a collection of over 1,000 items.
In 1965, he purchased the seal, a carving done for the Qianlong Emperor in the 18th century.
UMR's long-term plans for building a downtown campus seem to be moving forward again with the confirmation that the university is buying the former Running Room building.
It’s Friday night. Or maybe it’s Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday or any other night of the week. And you’re bored! Now, we Trinidadians take boredom very seriously. We have a reputation to maintain as the social mecca of the Caribbean – “liming country”, if you will – and we cannot have our reputation .