When Stone Creek Coffee Roasters wanted to build a huge coffee cup for the sign at its new Factory Store in Milwaukee, Sign Effectz Inc. was up to the task.

Social media is such a widespread networking tool that it is beginning to change the way businesses operate today.

Aside from managing their brand through official pages and groups on social media networks, businesses also have the option to run targeted advertisements on these websites based on the pay-per-click (PPC) model.

Steve Wagner spent much of his childhood paging through reference books on World War II aircraft and visiting the Canadian War Plane Heritage Museum near his hometown of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Now that the “fiscal cliff” has been averted, new laws mean taxes will be going up on almost everybody. Here are some planning tips to consider:

HSI Properties plans to build a four-story, 87-unit market rate apartment building at 1887 N. Water St. on the East Side of Milwaukee.

Investing is a calculated risk vs. return wager. It is not a guarantee.

When residential well owners want to perform a pump test on their well or determine the properties of the aquifer feeding their well, the process is often a timely and expensive one.

The Milwaukee area housing market showed major signs of a recovery in 2012. The number of homes sold increased significantly and the number of new homes under construction also rose.

Some Oak Creek residents have expressed disappointment that the development plans for Drexel Town Square, which will create a new downtown for a community that has never had one, tentatively include a 193,000-square-foot Meijer store.

Downtown Milwaukee golfers who in the past had resigned themselves to rusty swings in the spring can now get some convenient indoor practice over the long winter.