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‘Going green’ gets a short cut

Last week's Earth Day celebrations and the onset, finally, of spring weather gave us pause to revel in the...

‘Do Not Call List’ comes with a price

Wisconsin's Do Not Call List is phenomenally popular. During 2007, more than 1 million Wisconsin residential phone lines were...

Connect the ugly dots in the hospital ‘assessment’ scheme

When I recently wrote a Milwaukee Biz Blog to suggest the Darwin E. Smith Awards for people, organizations and...

Construction begins for proposed Days Inn near downtown

Construction has begun on a $4.8 million project to transform the former Jackson Center nursing home building at 1840 N. Sixth St. in Milwaukee into a 79-room Days Inn & Suites hotel.

Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek expands office at Cathedral Place

Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C. recently added 15,000 square feet of space to its headquarters office in Cathedral Place.

Milwaukee area’s industrial space vacancy dips

The Milwaukee area's industrial space vacancy rate dipped slightly to 7.4 percent at the end of the first quarter of 2008, down from 7.6 percent at the end of the first quarter in 2007.

Iron Horse Hotel to open in July

The Iron Horse Hotel, which is being built at 500 W. Florida St., Milwaukee, by developer Tim Dixon, announced recently that it will open in July, the same month that the nearby Harley-Davidson Museum is scheduled to open.