Minnesota
Watch live: Gov. Walz highlights Philips expansion in Plymouth
A company headquartered in the Netherlands is working to expand its manufacturing capacity in Minnesota.
Philips Image Guided Therapy, a medical device and technology systems company in Plymouth, is investing millions into an expansion project.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and other officials will tout the state-supported business expansion at a news conference on Thursday.
Walz will speak from Philips’ Plymouth site. His office says the expansion “will bring significant job growth, a new medical technology training center, and additional manufacturing capacity to Minnesota.”
How to watch Gov. Tim Walz’s news conference
What: Gov. Tim Walz highlights Philips’ business expansion
Date: April 10, 2025
Time: 11 a.m.
Location: Philips Image Guided Therapy – Plymouth, Minnesota
Online stream: Live on CBS News Minnesota in the player above and on your mobile or streaming device
Joining the governor will be Department of Employment and Economic Development Commissioner Matt Varilek; Philips’ Senior Vice President and Business Leader of Image Guided Therapy Devices Stacy Beske; Greater MSP President and CEO Peter Frosch; and Medical Alley President and CEO Roberta Antoine Dressen.
Philips said it plans to add 158 jobs over the next four years, increasing its local workforce by more than 50%. The average salary is expected to top $100,000.
The $31 million expansion also includes a brand-new medical technology training center, which Philips said could attract up to 2,000 visitors annually.
The state is supporting the project with $3.5 million in funding drawn from both the Job Creation Fund and the Minnesota Investment Fund.
In December, Walz announced seven major business expansions across the state — including Philips — that are projected to bring a total of 750 new jobs to Minnesota.
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – Expect a sunny Saturday with heat expected to build up this weekend before an even hotter work week.
Saturday forecast
Local perspective:
Winds stay light out of the south with plenty of sunshine today.
There are hints of an extremely isolated thundershower, but the chance of that happening over any given area is extremely small.
Expect highs to peak in the upper 80s with dew points in the mid to upper 60s this afternoon.
Extended forecast
What’s next:
This forecast is hot.
Highs will peak in the 90s every day this upcoming week for the Twin Cities and a large portion of the area as well.
Dew points really don’t look to surge into the 70s but mainly stay in the lower to upper 60s depending on the day of the week.
Little to no precipitation forecast this upcoming week. Expect dry and sunny days.
The Source: This story uses information from the FOX 9 weather forecast.
BEMIDJI — The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development recently announced over $1.4 million in child care economic development grants, including a $200,000 award to the
Northwest Minnesota Foundation
in Bemidji.
Split between 11 programs and organizations around the state, more than 80% of the awarded funds support programs in Greater Minnesota, with the aim of creating more than 1,100 new child care slots.
“Affordable, reliable child care is essential for a thriving economy,” DEED Commissioner Matt Varilek said in a release. “These grants are supporting working families by ensuring Minnesota parents are able to work knowing their child is well cared for by some of the best caregivers in the nation. We’re also helping employers retain talent and working together to establish the foundation for long-term economic vitality.”
DEED’s Child Care Economic Development Grant program provides funding to organizations and communities to invest in new or expanding child care businesses, including facility improvements, worker training, attraction, retention and licensing, and other strategies to address the child care shortage.
Since the office’s inception in July 2023, DEED has awarded over $13 million in grants to 56 organizations to fund child care startups or business expansions, resulting in over 4,000 new child care slots.
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