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BIZ BUZZ: Ad agency making move to the west bank
Senior Reporter The Adventure agency, which provides advertising and commercial photography services, is making a move of its own as the company settles into new office space in Brainerd.
The advertising agency is moving from the Northern Pacific Center clock tower building in the old NP Shops to another historic building with a railroad connection.
Adventure purchased the original Northern Pacific nurses' quarters, formerly the Girls PORT Group Home, at 110 Second St. N.W. on the Mississippi River's west bank. Adventure also purchased a separate building that once served as the Northern Pacific engineers' living quarters.
The nurses' quarters were designed in the late 1800s by Reed & Stern, the same architectural firm to design Grand Central Station and Union Station in New York, Adventure reported.
A Bay Lake estate and its contents - furniture, appliances, toys (cars, boats, recreational equipment) - will be part of a court-ordered real estate and recreation auction. Grafe Auction of Spring Valley has the auction scheduled Dec. 11 and 12 with photos of contents listed on its Web site.
Grafe Auction lists the estate address on Evergreen Trail in Deerwood. Crow Wing County tax records confirm the owner as Gerard Cellette of Andover. Kare 11 reported Cellette was charged in a $53 million Ponzi scheme. The criminal complaint from Hennepin County stated Cellette got people to invest in fictitious printing contracts with his printing business known as Minnesota Print Services Inc. with promised returns of 10-12 percent, generally within 60 to 90 days. Investment returns generally came from funds of new investors rather than from a legitimate business, the criminal complaint stated.
Grafe Auction is listing go-carts, arcade games, Lexus cars, and a bowling alley. The photos show a lot of log furnishings and an affinity for art with bears. The sale will include the art work, home decor, electronics, docks and boat lifts and a dune buggy.
"Included in the offering is a 5000-square-foot log sided luxury home which includes a theater room, sauna/sunroom and separate log sided heated storage shed connected to the house with an 80-foot tunnel," Grafe Auction reported. "Other real estate being offered is a lake cabin with 200 feet of lakeshore, three luxury town homes, a hunting/sportsman lodge situated on 20 acres as well as three tracts of development land." Grafe Auction said the sale will mean someone's Christmas will arrive early.
Chocolate Etc., downtown Brainerd, is sponsoring a gingerbread house contest. Contest entries are expected to start arriving Monday. Judging is planned Thursday. The contest is a fundraiser for the Scleroderma Foundation. The public is invited to stop in and look at the houses.
Crow Wing County now has doors on its board room from the Brainerd Door Co. The cost for the new doors was about $10,000, the county reported. When the room was renovated from the historic courtroom to the board's meeting room, the fire code required the doors to be left open, removed or changed in design so they opened out as people left the room. There were previously lengthy discussions on the cost for the doors and how to replace them. Early estimates has to potential cost up to $20,000.
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