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WPC Technologies Inc. has received a $432,000 Brownfield Grant from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. for remediation costs associated with moving into a new headquarters in Oak Creek.

Friday, July 6 Cousin’s Subs East Troy location, 2541 E. Main St., will donate ten percent of today’s...

Housing Resources, Inc., and Select Milwaukee have each received $5,000 from AnchorBank. Both organizations assist low and moderate-income families purchase their first home.

The Neighborhood Improvement Development Corporation has received a $5,000 grant from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to continue its Pet Stabilization Program.

Sweet Water, the Southeastern Wisconsin Watersheds Trust, and Root-Pike Watershed Initiative Network have teamed up to launch Respect Our Waters, a multi-year marketing initiative to educate area residents on actions they can take to improve rivers and the lake in the region.

The southeastern Wisconsin industrial real estate market had positive net absorption of 553,168 square feet of space during the second quarter and the region’s industrial rate dipped slightly to 7.33 percent, according to the Xceligent and Commercial Association of Realtors Wisconsin (CARW) second quarter report.

As economic uncertainty led to a decline in consumer confidence in June, American shoppers also exercised caution with their wallets and delivered disappointing sales for most U.S. retailers.

BizTimes Media invites its readers to attend the Health Care Reform Roundtable to be held on Thursday, Aug. 16, at the Country Springs Hotel in Pewaukee.

Business model innovation lessons abound in the daily news, and not just in the business section. CNN and Fox News provide recent examples. Both offered breaking but inaccurate news that the US Supreme Court ruled Obama’s signature healthcare reform – the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – as unconstitutional. Their paradigm – a mental model for how things work – coupled with competition to offer breaking news resulted in their reporting mistake.

Concurrency, Inc., of Brookfield, has earned a 2012 Microsoft Content Management Partner of the Year Award.