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Philanthropy beat: Hotel donates instead of liquidates
Article by: Jean Hopfensperger , Star Tribune
Updated: December 17, 2012 - 7:21 PM
When the Millennium Hotel in downtown Minneapolis closed its doors for a major renovation last week, it did something new for the upscale hotel chain.
The hotel donated about 1,900 pieces of furniture -- as in dressers, bed frames, lamps, desks and chairs -- to local charities instead of shipping them off to liquidators or landfills.
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