Cara Spoto
Cara covers nonprofits, healthcare and education for BizTimes. Cara lives in Waukesha with her husband, a teenager, a toddler, a dog named Neutron, a bird named Potter, and a lizard named Peyoye. She loves music, food, and comedy, but not necessarily in that order.
New Land plans 25-story apartment tower on East Side
Milwaukee-based real estate development firm New Land Enterprises has plans to build another high-end apartment tower in the city – this time on the East Side.
11-story hotel could replace retail building on Brady Street
Developer Mike Klein and restaurateur-turned developer Jeno Cataldo are looking to transform a notable, but underused corner along Brady Street on Milwaukee's East Side.
Poblocki Paving moving headquarters to New Berlin
Poblocki Paving Company, known for its clever puns and asphalt work, is moving operations to a former office building in New Berlin in an...
Florida-based funeral home company completes acquisition of Krause Funeral Homes
Milwaukee-area funeral and cremation services operator Krause Funeral Homes & Cremation Service, Inc. has officially merged with national funeral home operator Foundation Partners.
🔒 Festival Foods sells Greenfield store building to REIT
Festival Foods has sold its Greenfield supermarket building to a Texas-based real estate investment trust (REIT) for $22.3 million.
🔒 Greenfield health care facility sold for $23.6 million
A former Greenfield hospital has been sold to an Arizona real estate investment trust (REIT) for $23.6 million.
🔒 Manufacturer planning expansion in Waukesha
A bronze gear manufacturer owned by Watertown-based Fisher-Barton Group Inc. is planning a 56,000-square-foot expansion of its Waukesha facility.
🔒 Southeastern Wisconsin housing organizations receive more than $580,000 to assist...
More than a dozen affordable housing focused organizations and governmental entities in southeastern Wisconsin, will split more than $580,000 in Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority (WHEDA) Foundation grants to help house low-income and homeless individuals in the region.
🔒 Strauss Brands sells Franklin land to Verizon Wireless for $2.78...
Close to a year after dropping plans to construct a 152,000-square-foot slaughterhouse there, Strauss Brands has sold the 30 acres it bought along Loomis Road in Franklin in 2019.
🔒 O’Reilly Auto Parts purchases former West Allis Michaels store
The former Michaels' store attached to the West Allis Home Depot at 11135 W. National Ave., could soon be home to an O’Reilly Auto Parts location.
Downtown Hilton Tempo hotel project moving forward
A year and half after announcing a signing deal for the project with hotel giant Hilton, HKS Holdings appears to be moving forward with its plans to construct an eight-story Hilton Tempo hotel at the northwest corner of West Kilbourn Avenue and North Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in downtown Milwaukee.
Judge orders owners of former Northridge Mall to submit formal demo...
After little to no changes at the property, Milwaukee County Circuit Judge William Sosnay on Monday ordered U.S. Black Spruce Enterprises Group, the owner of the shuttered Northridge Mall in Milwaukee, to submit a written proposal spelling out how the Chinese-based company plans to raze the complex.
