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MPR headquarters to grow:

Minnesota Public Radio, one of the nation's biggest noncommercial stations, will spend $41 million to more than double the size of its St. Paul headquarters.

The MPR board has approved the design and budget for a 70,000-square-foot, four-story addition to its existing studios and offices at 7th and Cedar streets. The glassy building, designed by HGA architects of Minneapolis, will stretch north of MPR's signature brick headquarters.

The expansion, planned since 1999, will consolidate MPR's 300 employees, now dispersed in three buildings, and allow room for growth. The existing headquarters, built in 1979, will be renovated after the addition is done.

In related media news, local commercial talk radio station AM 1280 The Patriot announced that it will spend $41 to refurbish its studios by painting the basement "green room".