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Klein Development plans to build a 64,000-square-foot office building on the long-vacant block southeast of North 27th Street and Wisconsin Avenue in Milwaukee's Avenues West neighborhood.

Perhaps one of the most challenging decisions a business owner faces is determining the right time to sell his or her business. Exit planning is a simple, yet critical, exercise that can help a business owner ensure that everything he does will support his goals and maximize the value of his business.

Ryan Thompson, social media specialist at Glendale-based Johnson Controls Inc., taught himself to play guitar when he was just 15 years old. After discovering his proficiency for the piano he switched and now regularly plays keyboard and experiments with electronic instrumentation with his band, The Pubbys.

In the business world, virtual platforms such as blogging, commenting, tagging, emailing, texting and video chatting have all become normal channels of communication. Executives who have yet to embrace the new forms of communication risk leaving opportunities behind.

The number of daily flights by Frontier Airlines out of General Mitchell International Airport was recently reduced to seven. In May of 2011, the company operated 86 flights out of the Milwaukee airport.

The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Wisconsin has filed a lawsuit in Milwaukee County Circuit Court, alleging unfair business practices established by the City of Milwaukee's Ordinance 370, which provides race-based preferences in city contracts.

One thing many small businesses have to deal with is people, especially anonymous people, posting nasty stuff about them online. While you can't really stop it, you can absolutely deal with it so it doesn't impact all of your customers who love you.

Consumers and businesses in Wisconsin will receive about $16.8 million in rebates from health insurance companies that spent more on administrative expenses and profits than allowed by the federal health care reform Affordable Care Act, according to an analysis by the Menlo, Calif.-based Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

Milwaukee-based Roundy’s Inc. reported first quarter net income of $2.3 million, or 6 cents per share, down from $8.8 million, or 29 cents per share, in the same period a year ago.