Milwaukee-based The Boerke Company Inc. announced that it has added three additional brokers: Rand Wolf, formerly a senior vice president and industrial broker for CBRE; Kristian Sydow, formerly vice president of retail brokerage for Grubb & Ellis|Apex Commercial and Nathan Powers, former retail broker for Grubb & Ellis|Apex Commercial.

Irving, Texas-based restaurant chain Cheddar’s Casual Café Inc., plans to build a restaurant southeast of Highway 50 and 104th Avenue in Pleasant Prairie.

The new 127-room Hilton Garden Inn hotel in downtown Milwaukee opened Tuesday.

Thomas Ryan, president of Milwaukee-based Jonco Industries Inc. who purchased the Eaton Corp. building at 4201 N. 27th St. in Milwaukee, has lined up several tenants and is ready to move forward with a redevelopment project for the seven-story building.

The Outpost Natural Foods Cooperative is looking to expand into Ozaukee County for its fourth retail store location, as it has made an offer to acquire property in the city of Mequon at the northeast corner of Mequon Road and Wauwatosa Road.

October sales of existing homes in the metropolitan Milwaukee housing market were up 32.8 percent compared with the same month a year ago.

The Sentry Foods grocery store at 5740 Washington Ave. in Mt. Pleasant is expected to close in January. The store opened in 2007.

Piranha Paper Shredding plans to move from Waukesha to New Berlin. The company recently purchased a 38,000-square-foot industrial building at 17155 W. Glendale Dr., New Berlin, from BBD Woodmill New Berlin LLC for about $1 million.

Hakaduli Properties LLC recently purchased a 43,000-square-foot multi-tenant, industrial building at 2350-60 Dakota Dr., Grafton, from Westbury Bank for $1.9 million.

A 48,886-square-foot office building located at 804 N. Milwaukee St. in downtown Milwaukee is scheduled to be sold at auction on Dec. 6 at www.auction.com , said Jack Jacobson of NAI MLG Commercial, who is representing the building owner.

Of late some mud has been slung at the newly formed Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC). Much of it deserved. The agency discovered it had failed to track nearly $9 million in loans that are not current, the chief financial officer resigned and Governor Walker brought in a new interim leader while suggesting he would be discussing a series of dramatic moves with the board. WEDC will seek new leadership in a national search as Paul Jadin, former WEDC CEO, jumped ship to run Thrive, the economic development partnership for the Madison area.

Members of the Wauwatosa Community Development Authority favor a mixed-use development proposed by Phelan Development and WiRED Properties for a vacant former fire station site at 1463 Underwood Ave. in the downtown village area.