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Kim Bartmann is preparing to open her second restaurant in Uptown, a Minneapolis neighborhood that she knows well.

It's where Bartmann “grew up” in restaurants as a young adult, working as a line cook and a kitchen manager, and later where she launched her career as a restaurateur with her first local haunt, Café Wyrd, in 1991. Her forthcoming Uptown restaurant, an unnamed Italian eatery, sit directly across the street from Barbette, which replaced Café Wyrd in 2001.

Though she operates several…

A local brewery and donut shop are combining forces to create a new specialty as they finalize a partnership which was brewing for years.

The new local coffee brand is opening cafes in Schenectady and Albany, with more locations in the works.

Arcade Arena offers a “social casual gaming” experience that fosters team building through a series of multi-player video games projected onto the walls.

A popular spot for office workers is closing in downtown Raleigh despite rising foot traffic in the business district. Here's why.

Bob Baumann is president of Edward Baumann Clothiers in the North Texas city of Addison, a custom menswear store he opened more than three decades ago. We talked to Baumann for our statewide podcast Texas Business Minds about his career, his growing business and the big bets he’s made in his life, including a recently announced $11 million development in Addison that’ll be opening next May.

Here are some excerpts from the interview:

On the days of selling sets of ties from office to office…

Changes loom for remaining two Triad locations of the Libby Hill chain, which once had more than a dozen locations in North Carolina and Virginia.

Donatos is growing in South Carolina.

The 30-year-old pizza shop on a prominent corner across from the soon-to-be closing Bertha's was a pioneer in wood-oven pizza in Baltimore.

The Orlando-based franchise specializes in breakfast, brunch and lunch.