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Continua Experience Center
Continua Interiors specializes in transforming workplaces through a fully integrated approach — combining Furniture Solutions, Architectural Solutions, and Audio Visual Solutions under one roof, delivered by one team. With over 40 years of collective experience across the Midwest, we serve as a trusted partner for organizations navigating the evolving demands of the modern workplace. We don’t just furnish spaces. We shape how people work.
Located in Plymouth, our original AV experience center is where Continua first proved that furniture, architectural solutions, and technology could work as one system — not separate specs. It's the foundation the rest of our Experience Centers were built on, still evolving as the technology does.
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Twin Cities Numbers to Know
30.3%: Downtown Minneapolis office vacancy in Q2 2026, with downtown St. Paul at 37.6% (Newmark)
2,568 units: Minneapolis multifamily net absorption through the first half of 2026, including 1,590 units in Q2 alone (Cushman & Wakefield)
2.7M SF: Twin Cities office space converted to multifamily since 2020, the most common outcome for converted office (Newmark)
165 rooms: The boutique hotel CDT Realty is planning inside 20 Washington, the Minoru Yamasaki landmark it bought for $7.1M (Star Tribune)
$46M: What Hempel Real Estate paid for downtown Minneapolis' LaSalle Plaza, a tower that last traded for $155M in 2011
Speakers and Panels
Multifamily and Mixed Use
NAI Gateway's Angie Frandrup Demonte, Afton Park's Ari Parritz and Wipfli's Scott Lang on which multifamily and mixed-use deals are actually financing and breaking ground in the Twin Cities.
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Angie Frandrup Demonte
Vice President
NAI Gateway Commercial
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Elizabeth Flannery
President and CEO
Trellis
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Ari Parritz
Managing Principal
Afton Park
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Evan Doran
President & CEO
The Doran Group
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David Williams
Asset Management
Roers Companies
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Pete Keely
President & Owner
Collage Architects
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Scott Lang
Partner
Wipfli
Reinventing the Urban Core
CDT Realty's Chad Tepley, Hempel Real Estate's Josh Krsnak and Saint Paul Downtown Development Corporation's Dave Higgins on the projects actually reshaping downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul.
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Chad Tepley
President and Founder
CDT Realty Corporation
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Josh Krsnak
CEO
Hempel Real Estate
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Dave Higgins
President
Saint Paul Downtown Development Corporation
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Pete Schwarz
Senior Project Manager and Commercial Interiors Lead
Gardner
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Nicole Urista
VP, Business Development
Continua Interiors
Opening Remarks: Welcome To Continua
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Megan Little
VP, Brand Experience
Continua Interiors
WHY YOU CAN'T MISS THIS EVENT
What We'll Explore At This Commercial Real Estate Conference:
Which multifamily and mixed-use deals are actually getting financed and built, from Roers Companies' Bennett and Harlow Apartments in Chanhassen to Afton Park's Grand Victoria at Grand and Victoria in St. Paul.
How active adult housing is becoming its own asset class, as The Doran Group builds out its new Olinia brand starting in Maple Grove.
What it takes to deliver affordable, supportive, and family housing, from Trellis' $25M shelter and apartments in Longfellow to Noor Companies' Wadaag Commons in Seward.
How the two downtowns are being reinvented, from 20 Washington's office-to-hotel conversion and the repositioning of LaSalle Plaza to the Saint Paul Downtown Development Corporation's takeover of the U.S. Bank Center.
How tenants are reinvesting in their offices with smaller, higher-end, collaboration-first buildouts, and how construction costs are shaping every project on the board.
The historic tax credits, TIF, and public-private partnerships keeping Minneapolis and St. Paul projects moving.
How You'll Do More Business From Attending This Summit:
The Twin Cities market is moving in two directions at once. Apartment demand is running ahead of a thinner construction pipeline, while both downtowns work through office vacancy north of 30%. The firms in this room are acting on both. CDT Realty is turning 20 Washington into a 165-room boutique hotel, the Saint Paul Downtown Development Corporation has taken control of the U.S. Bank Center to help stabilize the core, and Hempel Real Estate is betting on flight to quality at LaSalle Plaza. On the housing side, The Doran Group is launching a new active adult brand, Afton Park has broken ground on a $44M mixed-use project on Grand Avenue, and Trellis and Noor Companies are delivering the affordable and family housing the region needs most.
This year, Bisnow brings together the owners, developers, architects, builders, brokers, and civic leaders behind these projects, including NAI Gateway, Roers Companies, Collage Architects, Gardner Builders, and Wipfli, at the Continua Experience Center in Plymouth. Expect candid talk on what's getting financed, what's getting built, and where the next opportunities are across Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Who You'll Network With At This Event:
Owners, developers, investors, brokers, business consultants, architects, engineers, designers, lawyers, accountants, bankers, and city and government officials.
Why You Should Attend This Program:
Bisnow puts the region's most active dealmakers in one room and gives you the floor to connect with them. Between the panels and the networking, it's the fastest way to read where the Twin Cities market is heading and find the partners to act on it.
Questions about your ticket purchase or interested in sponsoring?
Reach out to customerservice@bisnow.com for customer support. For questions, recommendations, comments or press inquiries please email Will Follett at will.follett@bisnow.com. To request disability-related accommodations, please contact janet.fernandez@bisnow.com no later than seven business days prior to the event.
Venue
9800 8th Ave N Plymouth, MN 55441
Onsite parking is available and free to park.
Agenda
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8:00 AM
9:00 AM
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Coffee, Breakfast, and Networking
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9:00 AM
9:45 AM
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Reinventing the Urban Core
This panel tackles the return-to-office, conversion plays, and public-private partnerships defining the urban core |
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9:45 AM
10:30 AM
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Multifamily and Mixed Use
Across policy, zoning, and new development, this panel offers a closer look at the state of new developments as told through the city's latest housing projects |
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10:30 AM
11:00 AM
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Closing Networking
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Tickets
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