The Milwaukee 7 Partnership for Economic Development is seeking to raise $6 million by 2025 to support its economic development efforts in southeastern Wisconsin. The campaign, which is being chaired by WEC Energy Group executive chairman Gale Klappa...
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Scenes from sold-out American Family Field where Milwaukee Brewers open season with big win
Fans packed American Family Field Thursday to kick off the Milwaukee Brewers home season and the team responded with a 5-1 win over the St. Louis Cardinals. Check out the attached slideshow to see photos from inside and outside the stadium and to see...
Nosco expanding its Pleasant Prairie HQ
Nosco, Inc. is expanding its Pleasant Prairie packaging innovation center and headquarters facility by nearly 100,000 square feet, increasing its size to 271,000 square feet. Nosco, a packaging manufacturer, is a subsidiary of Deerfield,...
Generac to start $20M expansion of R&D center at headquarters
Generac Power Systems will break ground in the coming months on a $20 million expansion at its headquarters outside Waukesha that will create a research-and-development lab. The project is one example of the fast-growing company’s ongoing commitment...
Executives talk artificial intelligence and business at MMAC, MSOE event
Anyone who has ever typed a text message on an iPhone and seen suggested words or phrases pop up above their phone's keyboard has experienced an everyday example of how artificial intelligence (AI) is being deployed across various applications. Chris...
AI, AR and VR: These 3 major Wisconsin firms are leveraging emerging technologies
From data science and artificial intelligence to augmented reality and virtual reality, Milwaukee-area technology leaders shared how they're leveraging emerging technologies during a virtual panel discussion Feb. 18 at United Way of Greater Milwaukee...
First employees will move into Milwaukee Tool’s new downtown office this month
Milwaukee Tool will start a move-in Feb. 28 for its first group of over 400 employees at the company’s new offices in downtown Milwaukee. The process will run until March 14 as employees take their places on the third and fourth floors of the building...
Early-stage Wisconsin firms raised a record of nearly $811M in 2021
Investments in early-stage Wisconsin companies by angel and venture capitalists totaled at least $810.82 million across 111 deals in 2021, a 67% increase from the record set in 2020, according to early data released Monday by the Wisconsin Technology...
Gov. Evers Welcomes Grand Craft Boats to Wisconsin
Gov. Tony Evers today visited the new production facility of Grand Craft Boats, a manufacturer of custom-built mahogany boats in Genoa City. The governor announced last year that Grand Craft Boats would be moving from Holland, Michigan to Genoa...
Wisconsin accelerator program for food and farm entrepreneurs goes national
From City Lights Brewing Co. and Valentine Coffee Co. to Funky Fresh Spring Rolls and Soul Brew Kombucha, the FaBcap Accelerator has helped 50 Wisconsin food and beverage companies find their footing. Now, the state-sponsored accelerator is...
5 things to watch in Milwaukee’s tech and startup scene in 2022
National technology headlines in 2022 will be awash with news about web3, blockchain, crypto and the metaverse, as well as decentralized finance, and autonomous and electric vehicles.Those trends will likely impact the local technology and startup...
Nexus Pharmaceuticals named a 2021 Inc. Best in Business honoree
Nexus Pharmaceuticals is a 2021 Inc. Best in Business honoree. With the second annual Best in Business awards, Inc. recognizes companies that have had a superlative impact on their industries, their communities, the environment, and society as a...
Ingeteam celebrates 10 Years of Production in Milwaukee
Ingeteam is celebrating the ten-year anniversary of the completion of its US offices and production plant, located in Milwaukee, WI. Built on a former brownfield in the city’s Menomonee Valley, the LEED Gold certified building was completed in 2011...
Haribo’s Kenosha County plant being constructed with future expansion in mind
All of the Haribo Gold Bear gummis sold in the U.S. are shipped in from eight company factories in six different countries. That changes by the second quarter of 2023, when the German candy maker will bring online its first U.S. manufacturing...
Saputo plans new Franklin cheese facility with 600 jobs
Global dairy processor Saputo Inc. plans to build a $60 million cheese production, packaging and distribution facility with around 600 jobs in a new Franklin business park. And those plans are proceeding during a period in which the Canadian company...
Wisconsin now builds some of world’s most luxurious vintage-style boats
GENOA CITY, Wis. — You might be surprised to learn that on a lonely rural Walworth County road next to a cornfield some of the world's most expensive and luxurious vintage-style boats are being built. These boats range from $250,000 all the way up to...
gener8tor, Employ Milwaukee and Microsoft launch digital skills accelerator
Nineteen Milwaukee residents are currently participating in the city's first gener8tor Upskilling cohort, a free program that teaches in-demand digital skills to job seekers. The program, which began late last month, is a partnership between gener8tor...
Generac plans to create 700 additional jobs, invest $53 million in its Wisconsin operations
Waukesha-based energy company Generac said Tuesday that it plans to significantly expand its presence in Wisconsin by adding 700 new jobs and investing $53 million in its operations. Generac's business building power generator equipment for homes and...
Inside the We Energies STEM Center at MSOE: Slideshow
The We Energies STEM Center at the Milwaukee School of Engineering celebrated its grand opening on Sept. 22, one year after the nearly $1 million facility opened in September 2020. Located at 1444 N. Water St., the 10,000-square-foot center hosts...
Groundbreaking set for $35M Port Milwaukee ag-export facility
A groundbreaking ceremony is tentatively scheduled for mid-October on Port Milwaukee’s largest project in at least six decades — a $35 million agricultural-product export facility on Jones Island. The Milwaukee Common Council on Sept. 1 approved Port...
Consulting Team Announced for New Downtown Plan
The City of Milwaukee has assembled its team to chart an equitable future for Downtown. The Department of City Development is partnering with Milwaukee Downtown, Business Improvement District #21 and a team of contractors on the effort, known as...
Fundraising for $80M inclusive sports center kicks off
After securing money to buy land for their planned $80 million nonprofit sports facility on Milwaukee’s far north side, Damian Buchman and Franklin Cumberbatch are intensifying their fundraising efforts and aim for a 2025 opening for the inclusive...
Arntzen Corporation to relocate production operations to Sharon, Wisconsin
Arntzen Corporation, a manufacturer of large-diameter steel piping critical for underground infrastructure, will move its Rockford, IL production facilities to the Village of Sharon in Wisconsin's Walworth County. The company will employ 40 workers at...
Wisconsin Center expansion groundbreaking may start early; site prep underway
With preliminary site work underway for the $420 million Wisconsin Center expansion, the groundbreaking ceremony may be held as early as November — about one month earlier than previously announced. Fencing has been erected around the perimeter of the...
Northwestern Mutual launches $100M impact investing fund, invests in Milwaukee’s Gateway Capital
Northwestern Mutual is earmarking $100 million to invest in Black communities on both a national and local level, with the goal of addressing inequality and the racial wealth gap, the Milwaukee-based life insurer and financial services firm said...
WEDC grant program to help small businesses find homes in Wisconsin
Businesses and nonprofits considering moving into a vacant Wisconsin commercial space may be eligible for a $10,000 Wisconsin Tomorrow – Main Street Bounceback Grant through a newly created program. “These grants are designed to give entrepreneurs a...
Evers, Steil attend opening of Nexus Pharmaceuticals’ manufacturing facility in Pleasant Prairie
Gov. Tony Evers and U.S. Rep. Brian Steil were among those on hand Friday to celebrate the ribbon-cutting of Nexus Pharmaceuticals’ new manufacturing facility in Pleasant Prairie. Nexus Pharmaceuticals is a woman-owned, privately held pharmaceutical...
Produce firm awarded half million dollars in aid for $29M facility at former Dairyland site
Heartland Produce Co. is being awarded $500,000 in state income tax credits from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. for a $29 million headquarters and distribution facility breaking ground on former Dairyland Greyhound Park land in Kenosha....
Canadian manufacturer to create 120 jobs in Kenosha County after nationwide site search
After an “exhaustive” nationwide search of prospective buildings to host its first major U.S. manufacturing operation, Canada’s Balcan Plastics Inc. chose Pleasant Prairie where it aims to create up to 120 jobs. “Balcan is a long-standing, successful...
The largest influx ever of jobs to downtown Milwaukee by a suburban firm is coming after Milwaukee Tool financing plan approved
The largest influx ever of jobs to downtown Milwaukee by a suburban firm is on track after the Common Council on Tuesday approved a $20 million city financing plan for Milwaukee Tool's new office. The council voted 15-0 to help Brookfield-based...