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🔒 Downtown’s historic Sentinel Building again eyed for apartment conversion

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Real Estate

Bear Development proposes more than 300 housing units in Mount Pleasant

Retail

🔒 Halal market planned for former Big Lots store in Milwaukee

Economy

Wisconsin unemployment rate unchanged in May

Restaurants

Café Benelux debuts retractable rooftop enclosure

Restaurants

Bartolotta planning new concept at former Rumpus Room in downtown Milwaukee

Restaurants

7 Brew coffee stand planned for Layton Avenue near Mitchell Airport

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BizTimes editor talks on Channel 12 about northwest side restaurant expanding downtown, another apartment tower in Milwaukee and salon planned for The Couture

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Real Estate

🔒 West Bend annexes and rezones 100 acres for industrial development

🔒 Scottfree Salons’ entry into The Couture has ‘been a long time coming’

Facing financial challenges, 1840 Brewing closes West Bend taproom

🔒 Large portion of former Bucyrus campus in South Milwaukee sold for $19.1 million

🔒 Who Really Owns It: Former Wadham’s in downtown Cedarburg

Manufacturing

Milwaukee Forge auction unsuccessful, buyer still sought for business

Plymouth-based Carbliss expands distribution into Houston and Tennessee

🔒 Sellars invests $15 million to open a fifth facility on Milwaukee’s north side

🔒 Desert Aire completes warehouse expansion at Germantown headquarters

🔒 Clarios examining sites for technology campus that will produce supercapacitors

Restaurants

See renderings of new restaurant Il Ponte planned for Northwestern Mutual’s North Building

New casual fine dining restaurant planned in Delafield

BizTimes editor talks on Channel 12 about a restaurant leaving 3rd Street Market Hall and another coming to The Couture

Northwest side Jamaican restaurant to open downtown location on Water Street

Acclaimed Milwaukee chef to open new restaurant in Northwestern Mutual’s rebuilt North Building

Health Care

ProHealth Waukesha Memorial Hospital begins $125 million renovation project

Federal funding cuts ‘could slice deep’ for some Wisconsin populations, report says

🔒 Brookfield-based RF Technologies acquired by Austin-based private equity firm

🔒 Wisconsin Biohealth Tech Hub projects on workforce development, innovation in oncology, startup commercialization making progress

Madison-based healthtech startup RedFox AI acquired by Recovery.com

Entrepreneurship

🔒 Jump Start: Milwaukee-based Gradmor turning workforce insights into manufacturing gains

Antetokounmpo brothers invest in Janesville-based Mr. Splash Car Wash

🔒 How Wisconsin companies are navigating uncertainty caused by tariffs

🔒 Wisconsin Investment Fund announces first 12 startup investments

Student innovators win cash prizes during episode eight of “Project Pitch It”

Nonprofit

Dohmen Company Foundation invests $3.5 million in meal delivery platform Mealogic

Northwestern Mutual Foundation pledges $4.5 million to Milwaukee schools and nonprofits

See photos from the Milwaukee Jewish Federation’s annual Economic Forum

🔒 Former Husch Blackwell CEO Paul Eberle to lead Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee

🔒 Rotary Club of Milwaukee’s executive director to retire next year

Retail

At Home to close Wauwatosa store as part of bankruptcy restructuring

Local salon to open location at The Couture

🔒 The Franchisee: Riley Scharnek

Gordy’s Lakefront Marine to open location in Delafield on Nagawicka Lake

Aldi opening grocery store in Delafield

Sports & Entertainment

Fox Bay Theater redevelopment gets final approval

See photos: Milwaukee Brewers build bookshelves for local children

See photos of U.S. Women’s Open at Erin Hills

BizTimes editor talks on Channel 12 about the U.S. Women’s Open, downtown apartment development and another chicken restaurant franchise coming to Wisconsin

Erin Hills set to host U.S. Women’s Open this weekend

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