The four-county metropolitan Milwaukee housing market continued plowing through the winter in February, posting a 16.4 percent increase in sales over February 2012, the Greater Milwaukee Association of Realtors reported this week.

Michael Best & Friedrich, one of Milwaukee’s largest law firms, has joined the growing list of tenants in the International Water Technology Accelerator building.

Tollefsen Steel, a steel service center, will relocate its operations from Menomonee Falls to an 18,000-square-foot industrial building in Muskego at S82 W18664 Gemini Dr.

Colliers International|WisconsinExtension Inc. leased 4,188 square feet of office space at 700 W. Virginia St., Milwaukee.Rafferty Asset Management LLC...

Cassidy Turley BarryTollefsen Steel purchased an 18,000 square feet industrial building at S82 W18664 Gemini Dr., Muskego, from Louis...

Brookfield-based Briohn Building Corp. recently completed design and construction work for a 22,600-square-foot tenant improvement for Maximus in the...

Milwaukee-based Inland Construction has promoted Charlie Sparks to assistant project manager. He has worked in the construction industry for...

There’s been a lot of talk about reforming the Federal Tax Code in the Fiscal Cliff and Sequester debates and now it appears that Wisconsin may be getting in on the act. Gov. Walker’s budget included a very modest reduction in the Wisconsin income tax rates and it appears that the legislature wants to go further.

Company owners interested in learning more about the process and prospects of buying or selling businesses are invited to attend the annual BizTimes M&A Forum, which will take place Friday, May 3, at the Pfister Hotel in downtown Milwaukee from 7:30 to 11:30 a.m.

The Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative, a nonprofit health insurance cooperative being formed in Wisconsin, announced it has received its Certificate of Authority from the Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Insurance.

The Milwaukee Brewers and Johnson Controls Inc. today announced a multi-year extension of their current marketing partnership, which includes the naming rights to the Johnson Controls Stadium Club, the fine dining area inside Miller Park formerly known as the NYCE Stadium Club. 

The plans to reconfigure the Lake Interchange, announced by state and local officials this week, will open up a three-acre site near the downtown Milwaukee lakefront for development and include road improvements and footbridges to improve vehicular and pedestrian access to the lakefront. What may be less obvious is that the project could also boost development in the Historic Third Ward.