A Virginia real estate firm is expected to pay more than $230 million for a West Loop office tower in the largest downtown sale this year.

Wells Fargo Bank N.A. is poised to seize a Michigan Avenue office tower about six months after filing a $103 million foreclosure suit, setting up a likely sale of the building.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel has announced a proposal to restructure the city's business licensing center with the aim of helping small businesses get licenses and find potential financial assistance more quickly.

Palermo's Pizza is one of the nation's largest makers of frozen pizza and the latest example of a yet another Milwaukee-born company that has grown and prospered into a prominent national brand. The company has been in the news a great deal lately but unfortunately, the headlines aren't about new products, job expansions or about the many investments they make in the community.

Easter Seals Southeast Wisconsin, the local affiliate of Easter Seals Inc., will move its headquarters from South Milwaukee and its child development center from Milwaukee to the former CU Fleet Building at 2222 S. 114th St. in West Allis, the organization announced today.

The 127-room Hilton Garden Inn hotel that First Hospitality Group Inc. is building in the historic Loyalty Building in downtown Milwaukee is expected to open Nov. 1, said hotel general manager Lisa Farrell.

The state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced last week that it has determined that the Downtown Transit Center site in Milwaukee is not subject to the state’s public trust doctrine.

West Bend Corporate Center, a 130,000-square-foot shopping center at 1201-91 Paradise Dr., West Bend, was sold recently by Ripp Family LLC to Madison-based real estate investment firm Ascendant Holdings LLC for $11.475 million, or about $88.27 per square foot.

East Pointe Marketplace, a 57,888-square-foot shopping center in downtown Milwaukee, is for sale, according to Chicago-based commercial real estate firm Holliday Fenoglio Fowler LP, which says it has been hired to market the property for the sellers, a joint venture of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. and Mandel Group Inc.

Stormwater Solutions Engineering LLC, announced this week that it will occupy space in the Global Water Center, which is being developed in a seven-story, 98,000-square-foot, 106-year-old Walker’s Point warehouse at 223 W. Pittsburgh Ave., Milwaukee.

Steele Solutions Inc. recently completed construction of a 35,000-square-foot plant addition in Franklin that has significantly boosted its capacity to manufacture mezzanines and other steel structures for use in distribution centers, warehouses, factories and other commercial and military settings throughout the world.

U-Haul Company of Eastern Wisconsin announced it has expanded the U-Haul network of self-storage locations with its purchase of an existing Wisconsin storage facility located in Oak Creek at 611 W. Puetz Road.