Former Northwest Airlines HQ listed for sale
Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal - by Sam Black Staff Writer
Delta Air Lines Inc. has hired Cushman & Wakefield to list for sale the former Northwest Airlines world headquarters in Eagan.
The building, at 2700 Loan Oak Parkway, is about 266,000 square feet.
The 72-acre site is near the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and interstates 35E and 494. Delta is also marketing an adjacent 36-acre tract along 494 that could be sold separately.
Cushman & Wakefield commercial real estate brokers Terry Kingston, Todd Braufman and Jeff Minea, all in the company’s Eden Prairie office, are marketing the property.
“While Delta will continue to have a significant presence in Minneapolis, we’re fortunate to have this site to attract another corporate user,” said Terry Kingston in a press release. “We have already seen a tremendous amount of interest.”
In June, the Business Journal reported Delta was selecting a real estate firm to sell the former headquarters, which is sometimes referred to as Building A. It has a giant N painted on the roof. Northwest has been the sole occupant since it built the four-story office building in 1985.
Delta is expected to move the employes it has in the old headquarters to other facilities. In Eagan it also has space at:
• A 278,000-square-foot flight training center, which sits on a 65-acre site immediately west of the headquarters; and
• A 335,000-square-foot data center known as Building J, located near Pilot Knob Road about two miles west of the headquarters.
After its 2008 merger with Northwest, Atlanta-based Delta (NYSE: DAL) promised the Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC) that it would keep 10,000 jobs somewhere in Minnesota until at least 2016.
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