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A local nonprofit organization announced it has acquired the Milwaukee Breakwater Lighthouse from the federal government and has plans to restore the 87-year-old structure and make it accessible to the public.

Wisconsin Bank & Trust will host an open house at its new mortgage loan origination office in Brookfield on Tuesday, September 24, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

B.C. Ziegler and Company has announced it will be hiring nine new advisors in the Milwaukee market over the next three years.

Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc.’s fixed income asset management division, Baird Advisors, has signed a deal in which it will directly advise clients of Dearborn Partners LLC.

Bank directors have become more optimistic about economic improvement, with 43 percent expecting recovery progress by the end of the year, up from 13 percent in 2012, according to a survey by Bank Director and Grant Thornton LLP.

For the second consecutive year, industrial employment in Wisconsin posted a gain, according to the 2014 Wisconsin Manufacturers Register, an industrial directory published annually by Manufacturers' News Inc. (MNI) of Evanston, Ill. MNI reports Wisconsin gained 3,010 manufacturing jobs from July 2012 to July 2013, or about 1 percent.

A local nonprofit organization announced today it has acquired the Milwaukee Breakwater Lighthouse from the federal government and has plans to restore the 87-year-old structure and make it accessible to the public.

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U.S. employers are more optimistic about the final quarter of 2013 than they have been in any fourth quarter since the start of the Great Recession, but Wisconsin employers are lagging behind their national counterparts in the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey.

Economic indicators in metro Milwaukee posted a solid July performance, according to a monthly report by the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce.