{"id":6922,"date":"2016-04-06T16:44:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T16:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=6922"},"modified":"2016-04-06T16:44:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T16:44:17","slug":"ted-bigos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2016\/04\/06\/ted-bigos\/","title":{"rendered":"Pioneer Press profiles Ted Bigos &#8217;74"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/01\/Pioneer-Press-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6553\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/01\/Pioneer-Press-logo-300x68.png\" alt=\"Pioneer Press - logo\" width=\"216\" height=\"49\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/01\/Pioneer-Press-logo-300x68.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/01\/Pioneer-Press-logo.png 717w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a>The St. Paul Pioneer Press recently published an article about real estate leader <strong>Ted Bigos &#8217;74<\/strong>\u00a0and the current climate of urban living in downtown St. Paul. Bigos owns five buildings in the area and many others across the state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I put a lot of my back into those buildings,&#8221; Bigos said. With the help of his father, Bigos began purchasing, renovating, and reselling apartment buildings at age 19 while he was a student at Augsburg College. Eventually, he retained some of the renewed properties and began renting them to tenants himself.<\/p>\n<p>About the current state of the downtown area, which has seen many development projects in recent years, he said, &#8220;In all the years I\u2019ve been in St. Paul, it\u2019s never felt as good as it feels today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\">Read: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2016\/04\/04\/ted-bigos-i-think-the-city-has-really-come-into-its-own\/\"><span class=\"dfm-title optimizely-2339690\">Ted Bigos: &#8216;I think the city has really c<\/span><\/a><span class=\"dfm-title optimizely-2339690\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2016\/04\/04\/ted-bigos-i-think-the-city-has-really-come-into-its-own\/\">ome into its own&#8217;<\/a> on the Pioneer Press site.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Paul Pioneer Press recently published an article about real estate leader Ted Bigos &#8217;74\u00a0and the current climate of urban living in downtown St. Paul. Bigos owns five buildings in the area and many others across the state. &#8220;I put a lot of my back into those buildings,&#8221; Bigos said. With the help of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[128,469,3186,2680,3840],"class_list":["post-6922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","tag-alumni-2","tag-business","tag-pioneer-press","tag-st-paul","tag-ted-bigos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6922"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6933,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922\/revisions\/6933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}