Business Insights
Successfully navigating corporate campus relocation, renovation presents diverse real estate challenges
Coloplast Corporation is a Danish medical device manufacturer that acquired the Minneapolis-based urology division of Mentor Urology. Following this acquisition, Coloplast decided to move the company's U.S. headquarters to Minneapolis from Marietta, GA. Coloplast hired United Properties Corporate Solutions to manage all real estate matters associated with this move, including the development of a new office tower.
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Executive Watch
Corporations seeking flexibility, liquidity and opportunity in this unstable economy may find sale-leaseback a good option
By Kevin Farrell, Executive Managing Director
United Properties Corporate Solutions
A weak U.S. dollar, more expensive borrowing, increasing energy prices, rising unemployment rates, falling U.S. home prices, and large, struggling industries—including financial services, automobile and homebuilding—these factors all share responsibility for the uncertainty in today’s U.S. economy, which is expected to hobble along in 2008.
What does this mean for U.S. corporations? How are CEOs reacting to these economic drivers and positioning their companies to gain a competitive advantage despite a somewhat negative outlook?
Sale-leaseback transactions are a tool more corporations are using to free up capital. Read more...
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Team Member Profile
 Mark Mundahl: A leader obsessed with technology and operations best practices in corporate facilities
Mark Mundahl leads the Facilities Management group for United Properties’ Corporate Solutions division. This group of nearly 90 employees manages the workplace experience of clients’ employees in 16 states. What does that mean? If you work for a Corporate Solutions client such as 3M, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota or Coloplast, his team makes sure that your space is clean, you get your mail, your office is warmer than the parking lot, and that any amenities in your building (such as a fitness center or food service) are operating effectively.
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