Last year, 933 hotel rooms were added to downtown Minneapolis. Elness Swenson Graham designed them all. The Minneapolis firm has become the go-to architect for hotel developers in the Twin Cities. Not only did ESG design all four hotels that opened downtown last year, it's designing four more that are in the pipeline this year in projects that could add another 809 rooms to the city's hospitality base. ESG Founding Principal Mark Swenson said his firm rarely competes with other architects for...
