Industries
Gift or Graft? China Celebrates the Year of the Dragon
As our holidays subside, China's begins. Jan. 23 will usher in the Year of the Dragon.
Shindig enables fans to book bands for gigs
Shindigs Inc., Innovation: Crowd-sourced event booking platform Milwaukee
New Berlin
Construction has begun for MSP Real Estate Inc.'s City Center at Deer Creek apartment project at National Avenue and Coffee Road in New Berlin. The development will consist of three, 34-unit buildings of apartments ranging in size from 980-1,900 square feet. Most of the apartments will be operated as affordable rentals with 86 of the 102 units reserved for residents earning no more than 60 percent of the area median income. Fifteen units will be rented for market rate tenants with no income restrictions. Rents will range from $530 to $1,400. The project is expected to be complete by late summer of 2012.
Gone fishin’
Nate Kawlewski, project manager at Elkhorn-based Balestrieri Group, loves to fish and hopes to eventually become a full-time professional bass fisherman.
Nonprofits see glimmers of hope
Most of the nonprofit organizations in southeastern Wisconsin are bouncing back from the Great Recession and believe the worst days are behind them, according to the Public Policy Forum's annual Report Card on Charitable Giving.
Telsmith paves the way
Rock-crushing technology has come a long way since Telsmith Inc. was founded in 1906, but the company's goal remains the same— build equipment to help mining companies reduce the size of any type of rock in the field.
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Brewers light the hot stove
The Milwaukee Brewers announced that the club has reached 1 million tickets sold for the 2012 season, the earliest date in franchise history that the milestone has been reached.
Can I have this dance?
The good ones make it look effortless and easy, don't they? I'm talking about dancers. The ones who move with a grace that can only come with hours and hours of practice when they repeatedly fall down and get back up again until they get to this point of ease.
Wisconsin accent: Allen Edmonds launches bold venture in China
The standard global commercial template of the 20th century involved goods being manufactured in China and then exported and sold to consumers in the United States.
