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The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts has signed a new, eight-year agreement with Broadway Across America to continue featuring Broadway productions at the Marcus Center.

Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward has been named one of America's Top 12 ArtPlaces 2013 by ArtPlace, an initiative comprised of national and regional organizations, federal agencies and banks dedicated to the funding and development of art.

The River Revitalization Foundation (RRF), Milwaukee’s urban rivers land trust, has closed on the purchase of an additional riverfront property on Riverboat Road with assistance from The Conservation Fund’s Land Trust Loan Program.

Regardless of the impact of the Affordable Care Act, the members of the board of directors of the Council of Small Business Executives (COSBE) are remarkably bullish about their prospects for 2013.

Milwaukee-based Vector Technologies Inc. has been acquired by Holden Industries Inc. of Deerfield, Ill.

Generation Growth Capital Fund I, LP, a Milwaukee-based private equity fund, has acquired Mica Tool & Manufacturing Inc. of Mukwonago.

Brookfield-based Fiserv Inc. has acquired Open Solutions Inc., a provider of collaborative, enterprise core account processing technology for financial institutions.

U.S. Bancorp reported record full-year net income of $5.6 billion in 2012, up 15.9 percent from 2011.

Chicago-based Northern Trust Corp., the parent company of Northern Trust Bank, reported fourth quarter net income of $167.7 million, or 69 cents per share, up from $130.2 million, or 53 cents per share, in the same period a year ago.

Steve Booth has been promoted to chief operating officer and will eventually serve as chief executive officer and president of Milwaukee-based Robert W. Baird & Co Inc.