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🔒 Golden Pet Manufacturing HQ in Germantown sold for $62.7 million

Enerpac unveils new downtown Milwaukee headquarters

Second Harley-Davidson dealers association backing investment firm’s campaign to oust senior leadership

Target buys Brown Deer site for new store

🔒 KDV Label revealed as commercial printer planning new Waukesha HQ

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Manufacturing

🔒 ITU AbsorbTech acquires South Carolina-based company

Education & Workforce Development

Local businesses and organizations commit $500,000 to support MPS superintendent

Manufacturing

🔒 Manufacturer plans to move from Milwaukee to Brown Deer

Education & Workforce Development

Aug Prep raises $3.2 million for its students through annual scholarship gala

Banking & Finance

🔒 Economic uncertainty takes bank relationships beyond lending

Entrepreneurship & Small Business

Milky Way Tech Hub, Sherman Phoenix to train 100 Black entrepreneurs in AI skills

Energy & Environment

🔒 Top We Energies executive adds new role

Manufacturing

Harley-Davidson expects deal involving financial services business to close in Q3

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Real Estate

Global Power to occupy, expand former Journal Sentinel facility in West Milwaukee with 1,000 employees

🔒 Downtown Milwaukee hotel market unlikely to support larger hotel at Deer District site, industry analyst says

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Kunes buys Milwaukee Chevy dealership for $9 million

Ebenezer Child Care Centers to open location in prominent building along the freeway in Bay View

Manufacturing

H Partners alleges Harley-Davidson board has made ‘secret, undisclosed’ commitments with some shareholders

🔒 With customers facing tariff uncertainty, Rockwell Automation sees delays, but not cancellations

🔒 Mayville Engineering positioned to take advantage of tariffs

🔒 Weyco Group temporarily halts China imports to soften tariffs’ blow, plans to source elsewhere

🔒 Harley-Davidson dealers across the U.S. vocalize support of leadership change

Restaurants

Nona to bring health-focused cafe, retail shop to Bayshore

🔒 Marcus Corp. saw revenue increase in Q1, while bottom line took a hit

Mediterranean restaurant planned at downtown’s Ascent apartment tower

🔒 Local restaurant group takes over catering, events at Milwaukee Athletic Club

Von Trier bar to temporarily close, reopen under new ownership

Health Care

Speaking at Medical College of Wisconsin NIH director defends grant cuts, says academic freedom is a priority

🔒 Medical College of Wisconsin and MSOE launch student pathway program

Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment awards more than $5.6 million to support health care workforce

🔒 Milwaukee-based Sift Healthcare names new COO

🔒 United Community Center to build new substance use disorder treatment center on Milwaukee’s south side

Entrepreneurship

🔒 Poblocki Paving Corp. acquired by Chicago firm

Sun Prairie-based Ubicept wins $1 million prize in TitletownTech Startup Draft

Ope Brewing Co. expanding with new Appleton location

Trump executive order shuts down Wisconsin’s minority business development center

Milwaukee-based HoneyBee Sage Wellness & Apothecary wins top ‘Project Pitch It’ prize

Nonprofit

🔒 Child care’s broken business model

AmeriCorps cuts threaten long-term sustainability of teacher pipeline, Teach For America Milwaukee says

🔒 Renovation project underway at Milwaukee affordable housing building

🔒 WWBIC names new president

New name revealed for Milwaukee Public Museum

Retail

Recently resigned Kohl’s board member raises concerns over governance

East Side Sendik’s store reopens

Burghardt Sporting Goods to close Fox Point store

Former Northwestern Mutual CEO named chairman of Kohl’s board

Stella & Chewy’s products to be available at PetSmart stores

Sports & Entertainment

New Berlin’s Lions Park community pavilion to be demolished, pickleball courts up for consideration

🔒 Milwaukee hospitality businesses set to benefit from NFL Draft activity

🔒 Comedian Jim Gaffigan’s shows set sales record for Riverside Theater

Schedule unveiled for Milwaukee Bucks playoff series vs. Indiana Pacers

Report: Milwaukee Brewers valued at $1.7 billion