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Today, Detroit’s Emergency Financial Manager Kevyn Orr filed a volunteer petition for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection. Michigan Governor Rick...

Matt Cordio, the 24-year-old co-founder of the nonprofit group Startup Milwaukee, is part of a growing number of young professionals involved in entrepreneurship in the city. He has taken a leadership role at Startup Milwaukee, which has unveiled new internship and mentorship programs this year, and has continued to host regular meetups and foster discussion through social media within for the community.

Some the Milwaukee area's most robust and dynamic companies are using the principles of design thinking to propel their growth through innovation.

Our firm is a branding agency, so my perspective on what signals good design is influenced by our work in defining, designing and developing brands and brand communications across industries and across media. However, I believe a few principles remain the same whether designing a car, a consumer product, an environment, print communications, a website or a logo.

John Caruso has been inspired by elements of design since his earliest days of childhood. Caruso, associate professor of industrial design at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD), grew up in a Midwestern household bustling with creativity ignited by a full-time mother, whom he remembers as a frustrated fashion designer.

When the Global Water Center opens this fall in Milwaukee, one company that will have an office at the research and business facility is a local startup, H2O Score.

Scott Seroka is one of 29 Certified Brand Strategists in the United States. Seroka advises companies to be preemptive and proactive about their brands.

As the U.S. economy continues to improve, more shoppers are returning to stores, and retailers are back in expansion mode.

We have just passed the five-year mark for this column. In an effort to understand where we started, I have revisited and updated my first BizTimes Dispatches From China column as if I was writing it for the first time. As the French say, "The more things change, the more they stay the same."

Construction began recently for developer Arthur Sawall's $19 million Mammoth Springs development at N63 W23231 Main St in Sussex. Two, 30-unit upscale residential buildings will be built this year. The project will take several years to complete, but ultimately the site will have more than 150 residential units, more than 12,000 square feet of commercial space and a walking path highlighting a three-acre quarry pond, Sawall said. “The Mammoth Springs Development will be one of the best and most unique mixed use developments in Waukesha County,” he said. “It will be a stunning development and a great place for people to live with majestic views of the quarry pond.”