Industries

The South Milwaukee Downtown Market will open its fifth season on Thursday, May 23, with produce, organic goods, arts, crafts, baked items and more from dozens of area vendors.

Leaders at Lifeway Foods Inc. plan to rehire all of the workers who were laid off from Golden Guernsey Dairy LLC to staff the Waukesha facility when it reopens this summer.

A new analysis from HealthPocket Inc. shows that health insurance premiums have remained steady in the lead up to the implementation of highly anticipated mandatory insurance coverage provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Between Feb. 1 and May 1, 2013, health insurance premiums increased by an average of 1.2 percent per plan.

Milwaukee-based Mandel Group Inc. will hold a groundbreaking ceremony to celebrate the start of construction for its $28 million Beaumont Place project, an 83-unit, three-building apartment development that will be built in Whitefish Bay.

A recent ruling by federal Judge Lynn Adelman finding that the state Department of Transportation’s Environmental Impact Statement supporting the $1.7 billion taxpayer-funded rebuilding and expansion of the Zoo Interchange is deficient and violates federal law sends a strong message that unrestrained highway building and expansion in southeastern Wisconsin at the expense of public transit and other projects must be stopped, Milwaukee Alderman Robert Bauman said today.

Scott Emmons has been named dean of the Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM).

Milwaukee-based Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc. has reached a new milestone with client assets exceeding $100 billion for the first time.

A day after a wildfire consumed nearly 9,000 acres and 47 structures in Douglas County in northwestern Wisconsin, the Department of Natural Resources, in conjunction with the National Weather Service, has announced that a Red Flag Warning is in effect today in Florence and Marinette counties and the DNR suspended all burning permits throughout the state today.

David Zanon, the owner of Wauwatosa-based Nu-Art Dental Laboratory Inc., recently purchased a vacant 30,000-square-foot office building at 160 Bishops Way in Brookfield for $999,000, according to state records.

An investors group consisting of developer Joshua Jeffers, the owner of J. Jeffers & Co., Shelley Lamoreaux of the North Shore Arsenal Soccer Club and John Lamoreaux, the owner of Ticket King, plan to purchase a 25,000-square-foot building at 2920 W. Vera Ave. in Glendale, which they will convert into an indoor sports complex called Inbounds Training.