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The Artery, a former rail corridor bridging Milwaukee's Riverwest and Harambee neighborhoods, and a 10-block stretch along West Wisconsin Avenue will be enlivened with interactive art in the coming months thanks to a $350,000 grant funded by ArtPlace America.

Some recent reports and commentary claim a manufacturing renaissance is just hype. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and other financial firms have cast doubt on optimistic claims about the revival of manufacturing in America.

ManpowerGroup, the Milwaukee-based global leader in contingent and permanent recruitment workforce solutions, today announced it is differentiating and evolving its business model to deliver faster, higher quality matches to employers and job seekers.

The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) today launched a new website, www.InWisconsin.com, to help new, growing and relocating businesses find available economic development resources.

U.S. News and World Report has ranked UW-Madison School of Business as the most popular business school in the country, placing it ahead of Harvard’s business school, which has held the title of “most popular” for the last two years.

The Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative Corporation (WWBIC) of Milwaukee and the Wisconsin Business Development Finance Corporation (WBD) of Monona will receive national awards from the U.S. Small Business Administration, the SBA’s Wisconsin District Office announced.

Leaders at Lifeway Foods Inc. plan to rehire all of the workers who were laid off from Golden Guernsey Dairy LLC to staff the Waukesha facility when it reopens this summer.

Milwaukee-based Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc. has reached a new milestone with client assets exceeding $100 billion for the first time.

The boards of directors of Generations Bancorp Inc. and Pewaukee-based Foundations Bank announced that they have raised new capital of more than $5 million.

Milwaukee-based Brady Corp. said that it plans to sell its Asia-based Die-Cut business.