The onslaught of political ads on television during the recall election of Gov. Scott Walker, the presidential campaign and the U.S. Senate race provided a major boost for Milwaukee-based Journal Communications Inc. The company today reported a significant increase in earnings and revenues for its fiscal fourth quarter, and for its 2012 fiscal year.

Groups negotiating on behalf of the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Milwaukee County War Memorial over who will control the War Memorial building have reached a tentative deal, Milwaukee County Board Chairwoman Marina Dimitrijevic and Supervisor Gerry Broderick announced.

Milwaukee-based Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc. held an initial public offering this morning with shares priced at $30 on the New York Stock Exchange. The share price quickly rose to $36.

Froedtert Health has promoted Caryn Esten to vice president of planning and strategic support services and James Klauck to vice president of ancillary services.

Kenosha-based Pacific Sands Inc. today reported net sales of $431,153 for the fiscal second quarter of 2013, up 3.5 percent from $416,217 in the previous second quarter. For the first half of the fiscal year the company’s sales were $863,995, up 12.3 percent from $769,047 in the first half of the 2012 fiscal year.

EMCO Chemical Distributors Inc. will move its corporate headquarters from North Chicago, Ill. to a 260,000-square-foot facility in Pleasant Prairie.

Milwaukee-based Aurora Health Care plans to build a $31 million, 61,082-square-foot complex for cancer treatment and a pain management and ophthalmology center in Kenosha.

Boca Raton, Fla.-based Procacci Development Corp. hopes to convince the federal government to move the downtown Milwaukee FBI office to a building in Menomonee Falls that Procacci would purchase, renovate and lease to the FBI.

A dedication ceremony was held Tuesday to celebrate completion of a 72-unit independent senior and assisted apartment building on the grounds of the sisters' St. Joseph Center campus at 2735 W. Greenfield Ave., on the south side of Milwaukee.

Developers Tim Gokhman and Ann Shuk are proposing a 31-unit, market-rate apartment development on a vacant parcel of land at 2650 N. Humboldt in Milwaukee’s Riverwest neighborhood.

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