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Food and drink. Fun and function.

It’s a Shelter house speciality: Designs that serve passionate entrepreneurs and their people. Lucky for us, this often includes brewery…

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Tenant improvement FAQs

What is a tenant improvement project? A tenant improvement project, often referred to as a “TI”, involves the build out…

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Waste not, want not: embracing material reuse in design

Thoughts from Shelter team member Jakob Mahla Is adaptive reuse the answer? It’s no secret that the buildings that surround…

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Can design inspire the return to downtown?

It seems all eyes these days are on the future of metropolitan area downtowns. Office tower occupancy is down. Many…

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Shop small at our spring makers market

As the IMS Spring Art Crawl and our corresponding seasonal studio gallery opening & makers market approaches, we're excited to introduce…

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Sustainable design can serve your cannabis business

When budding cannabis entrepreneurs think green, they often have more than plants and profits in mind. As business owners prepare…

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Suyao Tian to be featured in Shelter spring studio art gallery

What is the Shelter studio art gallery? When we designed the new Shelter studio at International Market Square (IMS), we…

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Getting into the cannabis game? You’ll need a team.

Now that Minnesota has legalized recreational cannabis, we expect a number of new local businesses to crop up. Ventures could…

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New year reflections: two decades of Shelter

In the fall of 2004, Shelter consisted of three folks in a small room on the upper floor of a…

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