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Manager
Biographies
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from page 5
management
positions with Tharaldson Enterprises which included:
Traveling Manager for T.E.’s Midwest hotels; General Manager
- Comfort Inn Topeka, KS; Campus Manager of the Fairfield Inn,
Days Inn and Comfort Inn respectively, Topeka, KS; General
Manager - Hampton Inn, St. Louis, MO. Cathi’s most recent
position was the General Manager of the Main Stay Suites -
Sioux Falls. She is very excited to become part of the
Torgerson Properties team and looks forward to the
opportunities and challenges that this up and coming
management company will provide.
COLLEEN
MATTKE
GENERAL MANAGER
(HEIDELBERG
RESTAURANT-NEW
ULM)
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Colleen
has been in the restaurant business nearly all of her life.
Her family owned and operated a bar and grill, cafe, and
supper club when she was growing up. Colleen, over the
years, has held just about every job possible in the
restaurant business but she is especially proud of her newest
position as GM of the Heidelberg in New Ulm.
In
her spare time Colleen trains and breeds horses on acreage in
the country where she resides with her husband and three
children. She aspires to someday develop a therapeutic horse
riding program for handicapped individuals. Colleen loves the
joy and excitement when they ride one of her horses.
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Aamot
Joins TPI as Administrative
Assistant to
the President
Before
joining TPI,
Kathy
Aamot was the
Secretary-
Treasurer of Johnson
Bros.
Corporation in its
corporate
office in Litchfield,
MN.
Johnson Bros. Corporation is a high-way and heavy
construction firm with regional offices located in
Wayzata, MN, Orlando and Bartow,
FL; Metairie, LA;
Dallas, TX and
Bettendort, IA. A list
of construction
projects on which JBC
has worked includes the
new Islands of Adventure
theme park at Universal
Studios in Orlando and the Hennepin Avenue Suspension
Bridge in Minneapolis.
During her 16 years at JBC, Kathy's responsibilities grew
to include financial accounting, maintenance of corporate
records, cash management and share holders relations.
Kathy is a Willmar native, who lives
in town with her husband, Brett and their two girls, Bria -
age 10 and Mariel - Age 7. In the summer, they enjoy
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A Message From Tom
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Bloomington along the 1-494
strip was signed. We intend to develop a 1 20 unit Staybridge Suites by
Holiday Inn in conjunction with a free standing full service restaurant
and bar concept (linked to the hotel via an enclosed breeze way).
· We have two sites in
Florida along Hwy. 41 corridor between Naples and Ft. Meyers that RET
Hospitality is in the early stages of developing as upscale extended
stay suite hotels. RET Hospitality is one third owned by TPI,
Ray DeAngiIis and Emmett
Erpelding. TPI will enter its traditional management agreement to
manage the hotels that RET
Hospitality develops.
·
We are progressing towards the development of a Hilton Garden Inn
in Golden Valley. This project is in a redevelopment area and Duke
Realty is the dedicated master developer of the area. If the
redevelopment continues on schedule, we anticipate a spring 2000 ground
breaking on this project.
·
The Holiday Inn Express in Golden Valley will begin Phase 1
preparations July 1st which will accommodate a future 18 suite addition
to this hotel. Upon completion, the hotel will have 44 suites and 83
standard guest rooms.
TPI works on and
considers many projects prior to committing to any particular one.
Therefore, the projects mentioned above are what appear to be the
survivors in the development process at this time. TPI passes on various
projects usually resulting from the conceptual project not meeting
TPI’s long term and short term financial objectives. TPI is very
careful and discriminate in this process.
At TPI’s corporate
office in Willmar, changes are occurring as well. Sheryl Walton, TPI’s Comptroller, has been upgrading hardware and
software systems. She has also expanded her team of associates by
recruiting two recent graduates from Willmar’s business college
program. We are very pleased to have with us Wendy
Peerboom and Marlene
Erickson. On June 21
Kathy
Aamot joined the TPI
corporate office as my “Administrative Assistant”. Kathy comes to us
from the Johnson Bros. Engineering firm in Litchfield, MN. When you get
a chance to interact with these fine ladies, please give them a warm
welcome to our team.
TPI has also committed
to build a new corporate office in Willmar. This office will provide
more space for the growing needs of TPI’s corporate office staff. The
new office will be co-habitated with our architects, Johnson Sheldon
Sorenson and Hafner.
All-in-all, this is a
great company on the come. It is one that I am very proud to be a part
of and very enthusiastic about its future. I personally enjoy every day
on the job and feel that each day just keeps getting better. It’s the
associates at TPI that motivate me and create this progressive work
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