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Steele Solutions Inc. recently completed construction of a 35,000-square-foot plant addition in Franklin that has significantly boosted its capacity to manufacture mezzanines and other steel structures for use in distribution centers, warehouses, factories and other commercial and military settings throughout the world.

Stormwater Solutions Engineering LLC, announced this week that it will occupy space in the Global Water Center, which is being developed in a seven-story, 98,000-square-foot, 106-year-old Walker’s Point warehouse at 223 W. Pittsburgh Ave., Milwaukee.

East Pointe Marketplace, a 57,888-square-foot shopping center in downtown Milwaukee, is for sale, according to Chicago-based commercial real estate firm Holliday Fenoglio Fowler LP, which says it has been hired to market the property for the sellers, a joint venture of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. and Mandel Group Inc.

West Bend Corporate Center, a 130,000-square-foot shopping center at 1201-91 Paradise Dr., West Bend, was sold recently by Ripp Family LLC to Madison-based real estate investment firm Ascendant Holdings LLC for $11.475 million, or about $88.27 per square foot.

The state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced last week that it has determined that the Downtown Transit Center site in Milwaukee is not subject to the state’s public trust doctrine.

The 127-room Hilton Garden Inn hotel that First Hospitality Group Inc. is building in the historic Loyalty Building in downtown Milwaukee is expected to open Nov. 1, said hotel general manager Lisa Farrell.

Easter Seals Southeast Wisconsin, the local affiliate of Easter Seals Inc., will move its headquarters from South Milwaukee and its child development center from Milwaukee to the former CU Fleet Building at 2222 S. 114th St. in West Allis, the organization announced today.

September produced a mixed bag of sales results for U.S. automakers, as Chrysler Group LLC posted some of its best sales increases in years, but sales for Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co. were mostly flat.

Steele Solutions Inc. has completed construction of a 35,000-square-foot plant addition in Franklin that has significantly boosted its capacity to manufacture mezzanines and other steel structures for use in distribution centers, warehouses, factories and other commercial and military settings throughout the world.

Jeff Jarecki has been hired as vice president-senior commercial lender at Layton State Bank in West Allis. He has...