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Milwaukee-based Mandel Group Inc. is beginning its $28 million Beaumont Place project, an 83-unit, three-building apartment development that will be built in Whitefish Bay. The three four-story buildings will be built south of East Beaumont Avenue between North Santa Monica Boulevard and North Consaul Place. The Beaumont Place apartments will have 1-3 bedrooms, 800 to 2,000 square feet of space with market rate rents ranging from $1,500 to $3,000 a month. The building will have 177 underground parking spaces for residents and 132 grade-level parkings spaces for the public, located underneath two of the apartment buildings. Construction is expected to be complete by late summer of 2014.

Any size company needs a certain amount of liquidity to conduct business in an effective and efficient manner. Use of liquidity usually starts with purchasing inventory and covering operating costs and payroll, but it does not end there. Often there is critical debt service to maintain, dividend expectations to meet, capital expenditure needs to fund, etc.

For some people, a good meal isn't complete without a good glass of wine. For others like Heather Korte, a good meal isn't complete without the absolute right glass of wine.

The increasing demand for strategic social media campaigns and management has employers looking for the freshest batch of graduates to join their forces. The National Center for Education Statistics projects 1,791,000 students will graduate with bachelor's degrees in the class of 2013. Recent grads are polishing their resumes and striving to secure coveted interviews for open social media positions. They're not the only ones who should be preparing for the onslaught of entry-level interviews.

Management consultants are not always the solution to a struggling company. Have you ever considered that consulting for companies is similar to a fad diet?

Mahuta Tool Corp. in Germantown is a family business. Founder Ken Mahuta and his wife, Lynn, are owners. Their children, Jeff Mahuta and Kimberly Mahuta Laczniak, work in partnership with them to run the company of 25.

The State of Wisconsin's projected budget surplus has grown to $560 million, according to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau, which said the surplus was primarily driven by unexpected strength in individual income tax collections.

What was the smartest thing your company did in the past year?

The Wisconsin Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation recently announced its 2013-2014 board of directors.

Milwaukee-based global workforce solutions company ManpowerGroup is advising U.S. manufacturers to solve their skills gap by working collaboratively to create private-public sector task forces to create a new pipeline of talent.