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Milwaukee joins National Innovation NetworkFive academic institutions in Milwaukee are joining forces to form a local site of the...

"Building Value and Sharing Values” will be the theme of the first BizTimes Family & Closely Held Business Summit.

The event will take place Thursday, June 4, at the Italian Community Center in downtown Milwaukee from 7 to 11:30 a.m.

Business owners are invited to attend and learn about the best practices of a prestigious lineup of speakers.

Irgens plans to build a four-story, 150,000-square-foot office building on an 8.2-acre site in the Milwaukee County Research Park in Wauwatosa. The building will be anchored by Zywave Inc., which will lease about 63,500 square feet of space. The plans also include a parking structure on the north side of the building. Irgens is seeking $5 million in tax incremental financing for the project from the city of Wauwatosa. The building will be built just southwest of U.S. Highway 45 and Watertown Plank Road. Construction is expected to begin soon and be completed in the spring of 2016.

Many aging baby boomers can’t yet retire – the result of insufficient planning and saving. Employers, however, can help the next generation successfully retire by age 65 or earlier.  

Every five to six years, the government requires business owners to restate their retirement plans and adopt IRS’ new and modified rules. The plan restatement also provides employers with an opportunity to impact significantly the retirement readiness of their employees.

A set of home safety assessments largely shaped by Rebuilding Together Greater Milwaukee have been recognized by the American Occupational Therapy Association, which is displaying them as best practices on its website.

The assessments, known as the “Safe at Home” suggestions, feature a checklist RTGM uses to evaluate an individual's or family's home environment and the kinds of adaptations they may need to live there comfortably – such as the construction of a bath bench or lighting additions.

While entrepreneurs have traditionally worked to assemble a business plan and pull in capital over several months, Bernhard Schroeder insists today's entrepreneurs can launch a successful business in no more than 90 days.

The same bold conservative policies that have catapulted Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to the front of the class in the Republican presidential primary race appear to be eroding his base of support in his home state, according to the latest Marquette Law School Poll.