Industries

Milwaukee and Madison-based startup BankMyBiz.com has launched a $500,000 seed round to fund its growth.

The Affordable Care Act has contributed to growth plans for Mequon-based benefit management solutions company Wonderbox Technologies LLC and its family of companies.

An affiliate of Midwest Engineering Systems Inc., an automation systems manufacturer, recently purchased the 100,000-square-foot industrial building at W238 N1800 Rockwood Dr. in Pewaukee for $4.35 million, according to state records.

Issaquah, Wash.-based Costco Wholesale Corp. recently purchased a 17.5-acre site in Pleasant Prairie, where it plans to build a 153,962-squasre-foot store.

The First Financial Centre, a 14-story office building located at the northeast corner of Water Street and Wisconsin Avenue in downtown Milwaukee, was sold recently for $3.28 million, according to state records.

After more than a decade of shaping students in Milwaukee's central city neighborhoods, Bob Dunn, president and CEO of Our Next Generation, Inc., has retired and turned the nonprofit over to newly appointed leader La Toya Sykes.

An affiliate of New York-based Gramercy Property Trust Inc. recently purchased the 160,000-square-foot building in Kenosha that will be occupied by an InSinkErator plant.

Neenah-based Menasha Packaging Co. LLC is planning a $5 million expansion of its production capacity in Hartford.

Steel shipments are up at the Port of Milwaukee by 47 percent through September, compared with the same span last year.

“If you can make it, we can move it” is the motto of Menomonee Falls-based Bushman Equipment Inc.