Industries

Waukesha-based The Kendal Group Ltd. plans to build a 113-unit apartment development at 2056 N. Commerce St., just north of downtown Milwaukee.

Home sales in the metropolitan Milwaukee market increased 16.4 percent in September, compared with the same month a year earlier, according to the latest report by the Greater Milwaukee Association of Realtors.

Cardinal Capital Management Inc., a housing development and management firm, recently began construction of a $2.25 million, 12,480-square-foot corporate headquarters office building at 901 S. 70 St. in West Allis.

Sheboygan-based property and casualty insurer Acuity announced that it will begin construction of a $130 million, 240,000-square-foot addition to its corporate headquarters in Sheboygan by December.

Compared with most states, Wisconsin is not feeling much of the direct impact of the partial federal government shutdown.

Southeastern Wisconsin business owners have regained some confidence in buying new equipment, according to U.S. Bank.

The state had a nearly $760 million surplus as the end of the fiscal year, the Wisconsin Department of Administration announced Monday.

Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Meijer Inc. recently purchased six properties totaling 21.5 acres at the southeast corner of 76th Street and Green Bay Road in Kenosha for $4.2 million, according to state records.

If Congress fails to raise the federal debt ceiling and defaults on the nation's debt, the U.S. economy would be at risk of recession and the stock market would be at risk of a severe downturn, according to most of the economic forecasters surveyed by BizTimes last week.

Sussex-based QuadMed LLC has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Novia CareClinics LLC of Indianapolis in a merger of two innovators in employer-sponsored health care management solutions and on-site primary care.