Economic Development

The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation is launching a pilot program that will make direct equity investments in Wisconsin-based startups beginning in 2021.

The Greater Milwaukee Foundation announced it will dedicate $30 million over the next five years to support equitable economic recovery in the Milwaukee area.

The past few months have been critical for brick-and-mortar businesses across the city as restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19 kept operations limited and sales down.

Former Milwaukee County Board chairman Theodore Lipscomb has been named executive director of community development organization LISC Milwaukee.

Lafayette Crump, Mayor Tom Barrett's choice as Milwaukee's next commissioner of the Department of City Development (DCD), said if his appointment is approved he would work to make the city a more equitable place for racial and ethnic minorities.

In many respects, downtown West Bend is thriving. Most storefronts are filled, its historic theater building is newly renovated, public...

Small businesses impacted by COVID-19 can now apply for the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation’s $75 million grant program.

The Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce has launched a grant program to provide monetary relief to local businesses that were damaged when recent protests against racism and police brutality in some cases escalated into looting and vandalism.

The Greater Milwaukee Foundation has donated $100,000 to the African American Chamber of Commerce of Wisconsin to establish a...

After trending higher in the first part of the decade, the city of West Allis saw population declines for five years in a row. Through 2018, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the city’s population was down by 1,001.