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Email: bmccool@fredlaw.com
Office: 612.492.7309
Assistant: Debbie Kleist, 612.492.7549
“‘One-size-fits-all’ does not work with legal advice. I pride myself in working closely with each of my clients to develop creative solutions to their unique legal and business issues.”
Brian is an experienced real estate attorney with a multi-faceted practice, focusing particularly on representing parties in complex land use and zoning matters, real estate transactions, and disputes involving real property.
From City Hall to the closing table to the courtroom, Brian, a shareholder and co-chair of Fredrikson & Byron’s Real Estate Group, spends his days working to find solutions to his clients’ varied real estate and business issues. Brian relies heavily on his business and finance background to understand his clients’ businesses so that he can best help these clients capitalize on opportunities and obtain sensible and efficient outcomes to challenges that may arise. Brian has significant experience partnering with land owners, developers and builders to help them understand and navigate through the land use regulations that impact their projects. Additionally, Brian is also an experienced transactional attorney that represents clients in the acquisition, disposition, construction, leasing and financing of multi-family, commercial and industrial properties. And, when the circumstances require such action, Brian has substantial experience in representing his clients in a wide range of real estate-related disputes, including mortgage foreclosure actions, workouts, landlord-tenant disputes, construction claims, mechanic’s lien issues, boundary disputes and zoning disputes.
August 1, 2011
In 1989, the Minnesota Court of Appeals issued its decision in Rowell v. Board of Adjustment of Moorhead. In this decision, the Court of Appeals adopted an interpretation of Minnesota’s municipal variance statute that provided a flexible, owner-friendly standard for cities to use when evaluating variance applications.
