Industries

Everest College announced last week that it will close its downtown Milwaukee campus, located in the 2-story, 67,500-square-foot building northwest of North 6th Street and West McKinley Avenue.

Southridge Mall in Greendale announced that it will add a Tilly’s store and Teavana and Panda Express restaurants this fall.

Mequon-based National Hospitality Supply Inc. plans to build a 31,500-square-foot addition to its 32,000-square-foot headquarters at 10660 N. Executive Ct. in Mequon.

Home sales in the four county metro Milwaukee area were up 21 percent in August, compared to August of 2011, according to the latest date from the Greater Milwaukee Association of Realtors (GMAR).

Staff with the state Department of Natural Resources will meet today with representatives of parks advocacy group Preserve Our Parks, including a surveyor hired by the group, to review claims by the group that most of the Downtown Transit Center site was originally in the Lake Michigan lake bed.

Richard Ryan, president and chief executive officer of Dorner Mfg. Corp. in Hartland, died in a motorcycle accident on Saturday, Sept. 8, while traveling in the western United States.

Milwaukee's citywide approach to developing a sustainable solar market is being heralded this week as an international blueprint for success.

Tailored Label Products Inc. of Menomonee Falls has acquired the label products division of Norcross, Ga.-based Stratix Corp.

Merge Healthcare Inc., which operates dual headquarters in Hartland and Chicago, announced that its board of directors has retained Allen & Company LLC, a New York-based investment bank, to assist in exploring and evaluating a broad range of strategic alternatives, including, but not limited to, a sale of the company or a business combination.

Nashotah-based Dickten Masch Plastics (DMP), a thermoplastics and thermoset manufacturer with metal stamping and assembly capabilities, has acquired Nyloncraft Inc., a technical plastics manufacturer based in Mishawaka, Ind.