Industries
Can downtown hotel market absorb huge supply boost?
Three hotels are under construction in downtown Milwaukee: a 205-room Marriott hotel southwest of Wisconsin Avenue and Milwaukee Street; a 128-room Hilton Garden Inn hotel in the historic Loyalty Building at 611 Broadway; and the 90-room Brewhouse Inn at the former Pabst brewery complex.
Avoid unnecessary business banking fees
While bank service charges have been a hot topic recently, most discussion focuses on consumers. Equally important is the topic of service charges for business accounts.
Aloft and Pfister make TripAdvisor.com lists
Two downtown Milwaukee hotels recently made a couple of best-of lists on TripAdvisor.com.
City tours are a business event option
Milwaukee is not considered a major tourism destination for many Americans. But VISIT Milwaukee and a few local tour guides are working hard to improve the image of the city as a visitor's destination, and they have started working with local companies to custom design tours of the city for their clients, business partners and potential employees from out of town.
Shorewood Mixed-Use
Mandel Group Inc. plans to begin construction this month on LightHorse | 4041, a mixed use development on Oakland Avenue in Shorewood. The building will have 84 apartments, 20 percent of them at “affordable” rents and an 18,000-square-foot Walgreens store. Mandel Group recently closed on the financing for the Shorewood project and the 155-unit second phase of its North End apartment complex development in downtown Milwaukee, which will also break ground this month. The total combined investment in the two developments is estimated by Mandel Group at more than $71 million.
“The Cure for Corporate Stupidity”
In his new book, “The Cure for Corporate Stupidity,” author Larry Bloom argues that many problems in today’s business world are caused by “mind bugs,” similar to software bugs, that occur within a business leader’s thought process.
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12.5%
The inventories of unsold homes in Wisconsin dropped to 12.5 months of supply in December, which is the first time it has been below 13 months since the Wisconsin Realtors Association (WRA) began tracking inventory levels in May 2010.
Travel Wisconsin unveils Zucker commercial
Wisconsin Native and comedic filmmaker David Zucker was recently hired to produce a television commercial for Travel Wisconsin.
Nonprofit Directory
The BizTimes Milwaukee 2011 Nonprofit Directory is available for viewing and for purchase in a print format. The directory...
