The Valspar Corp., a maker of paints and industrial coatings, plans to spend $30 million to expand its research and development campus at its former headquarters building in downtown Minneapolis, the Pioneer Press reports. The project is expected to create up to 135 new full-time jobs over the next two-years. It will also add 87,000-square-feet of laboratory, meeting and office space. The expansion is scheduled to be finished by early 2014.

Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services is making construction plans after freeing up cash from the recent sale of its Red Wing Medical Center to the Rochester-based Mayo Clinic. Finance & Commerce reports major construction projects appear to be in the works for Southdale Hospital in Edina and Ridges Hospital in Burnsville.

Summit Brewing Co., Minnesota's largest craft brewer, plans to break ground Friday on a $6 million addition of its St. Paul brewery, the Business Journal reports. Construction was slated to start next June. “We’ve hit the wall on capacity. We had to cut 12 brews this year due to capacity issues, so the original expansion date of June 2013 has been moved to this month," CEO and founder Mark Stutrud said in a news release.

The health care system felt it was necessary to cut its ties with the debt collector. Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson accused Chicago-based Accretive of using high-pressure strategies to get Minnesota hospital patients to pay for their treatments. The Business Journal reports Fairview began reducing its contract with the collection firm after a laptop with unencrypted patient information was stolen. Meanwhile, a Democratic Congressman from California is now calling for a federal investigation.

Gore-Tex inventor and University of Minnesota alum Robert Gore and his wife Jane donated $10 million to the University of Minnesota for a $27.6 million expansion of Amundson Hall. The building is the home of the College of Science and Engineering's Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science.

McNeilus Steel, based in Dodge Center, Minn., has broken ground on its 96,000-square-foot expansion in Fond du Lac. General Manager Greg Head tells the Reporter the coil processing facility will also add 50 jobs within the next five years. The $15 million plant expansion is expected to be complete by next summer.