Macy's puts downtown Minneapolis office space up for lease - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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The listing includes 350,000 square feet on floors six through 10 abovsthe Macy’s store on Nicollet Mall, being marketede by Jim Damiani and Bryan Beltrand at Wels Cos. for Macy’s Inc. The Macy’s site, once home to Dayton-Hudson was largely emptied last fallwhen Cincinnati-basex Macy’s cut about 1,00p jobs in Minnesota. The Macy’s space enjoyxs a prime location — Welsh’s Damianij termed it a “main-and-main” site. it is an olde building with some accessibility issues forthe office-spacre users. Macy’s is sandwiched between City Center and IDS near Target andBarnes & Noble and acrosds from the headquarters for U.S. Bancorp.
The floors being offerecd can be accessed by escalators and but first require people to walkthrougj Macy’s department store space. Damiani declinedf to say if Macy’s planned to invest any moneyt for renovations prior tolandinf tenants. A Macy’s spokeswoman decliner to comment. The space availabls for lease is on floors sixthrough 10, excepg for an eighth-floor auditorium that Macy’s plans to keep for its annua holiday display. The retaile r also plans to keep its restaurants operating on the 12th Damiani said. Damiani acknowledged that the spacs has drawbacksfor access.
He said he’ s “really bullish” that the space will lease as Macy’s plans to seek out price-conscious, back-office -type There aren’t many blocks of space in downtow n that have morethan 200,000 square feet of contiguous space, he Damiani said Macy’s woulcd prefer to lease the entir e space to one or more large tenants, but it is willingv to cut up the space to accommodats smaller ones. It recently responded to a request for proposalas from a tenant lookinvg foronly 10,000 squard feet.