{"id":1004148703,"date":"2016-07-26T00:15:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T08:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004148703"},"modified":"2020-04-23T04:25:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T12:25:20","slug":"opus-completes-xcel-energy-hq-annex-in-minneapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/opus-completes-xcel-energy-hq-annex-in-minneapolis\/","title":{"rendered":"Opus Completes Xcel Energy HQ Annex in Minneapolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Scott Baltic, Contributing Editor<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1004148704\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/07\/Xcel-Energy-at-401-Nicollet_3659_1000x667.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004148704\" data-attachment-id=\"1004148704\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/opus-completes-xcel-energy-hq-annex-in-minneapolis\/xcel-energy-at-401-nicollet_3659_1000x667\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/07\/Xcel-Energy-at-401-Nicollet_3659_1000x667.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,667\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Xcel-Energy-at-401-Nicollet_3659_1000x667\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/07\/Xcel-Energy-at-401-Nicollet_3659_1000x667.jpg?w=1000\" class=\"wp-image-1004148704 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/07\/Xcel-Energy-at-401-Nicollet_3659_1000x667.jpg\" alt=\"Xcel Energy's new office at 401 Nicollet, Minneapolis\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/07\/Xcel-Energy-at-401-Nicollet_3659_1000x667.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/07\/Xcel-Energy-at-401-Nicollet_3659_1000x667.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/07\/Xcel-Energy-at-401-Nicollet_3659_1000x667.jpg?resize=768,512 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004148704\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Xcel Energy&#8217;s new office at 401 Nicollet, Minneapolis<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Minneapolis, Minn.<\/strong>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opus-group.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Opus Group<\/a> has completed a nine-story, 222,000-square-foot office building on the north end of downtown Minneapolis\u2019 Nicollet Mall for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xcelenergy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Xcel Energy<\/a>, the developer announced last week. The new building at 401 Nicollet connects by skyway with Xcel\u2019s building across the street at 414 Nicollet, creating a two-building campus for the company, which will consolidate operations and employees that were previously spread throughout Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>The 401 building will house 700 employees, and the 414 building houses 1,000, an Opus spokesperson told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\">Commercial Property Executive<\/a><\/em>. A dollar figure for the new building was not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith our new headquarters, Xcel Energy is doubling down on its commitment to Minneapolis \u2026 by creating a unified campus and bringing our downtown workforce closer together,\u201d Xcel Energy CEO Ben Fowke said in a prepared statement.<\/p>\n<p>The project was first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/opus-to-build-new-office-building-for-xcel-energy-at-nicollet-mall\/\" target=\"_blank\">announced back in June 2012<\/a>, but demolition of the site was not complete till summer 2014, Dave Menke, president of Opus Development Co. LLC, told <em>CPE<\/em>. The project started going vertical that fall, and topping-out took place in June 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The LEED Silver building was designed to reflect the architecture in the surrounding area, such as the look of Xcel Energy\u2019s existing main headquarters across the street and the transparent glass fa\u00e7ade of the nearby Minneapolis Central Library. 401 Nicollet features a glass curtain wall and cast stone with architectural detail including banding elements, metal accents and strong mullions.<\/p>\n<p>Opus Development was the developer, Opus Design Build LLC was the design-builder, and Opus AE Group LLC was the architect and structural engineer of record.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2014, Opus completed The Nic on Fifth, a 26-story luxury apartment building that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/opus-closes-on-financing-prepares-to-break-ground-on-luxury-high-rise-apartment-building\/\" target=\"_blank\">was the company\u2019s first project<\/a> along that stretch of the Nicollet Mall and is next door to the Xcel Energy headquarters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company will now consolidate operations and employees that were previously spread throughout the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":882,"featured_media":1004148704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21782,21808,13,36076,21742,21747],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004148703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-development","category-featured","category-midwest","category-minneapolis-st-paul","category-latest","category-office"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - 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