Help/Systems Expansion Boosts West Metro Business Boom

Eden Prairie is helping to fuel a business boom that’s heavily concentrated in the west metro, according to the Department of Employment and Economic Development’s Quarterly Business Expansion Report. 

DEED recorded 42 business expansions in the first quarter of 2013 that will create more than 1,300 Minnesota jobs. The expansion of Eden Prairie-based Help/Systems Inc. is among the expansions.

The software company is expanding into a new headquarters next to its existing facility, which will increase Help/Systems' office footprint from 40,000 square feet to 60,850 square feet. The report does not specify how many new jobs will be added or how much the project will cost. 

Eden Prairie companies also benefited from injections of venture capital. Neochord Inc. received nearly $3 million, while Celleration Inc. received nearly $6.5 million. Together, the two medical device companies accounted for about a quarter of the state’s first quarter venture capital.

Click here to view a map of all the first quarter expansions. Click here to download a spreadsheet that details each one.