Ellipse Fitness to open locations in Third Ward, Brookfield
Ellipse Fitness recently signed a lease to open a fitness center at 591 E. Erie St. in Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward. It will open on Dec. 6.
Ellipse Fitness also signed a lease in Brookmound Plaza at 17800 W. Bluemound Road, Brookfield. That location will open on Nov. 15.
The company plan to open a third location in the Milwaukee area and plans to sign another lease soon, said Lisa Welko, president of Ellipse Fitness.
Ellipse Fitness is a classes-only fitness and nutrition franchise.
Advanced Pain Management plans to expand Greenfield office building
Vishal Lal of Advanced Pain Management plans to build a 3-story, 17,170-square-foot expansion to the High Point office building at 4131 Loomis Road in Greenfield. The three-story building currently has 50,000 square feet of space with a Community Bank & Trust branch on the first floor. Advanced Pain Management occupies the top floor of the building.
Growing Power plans to expand with 5-story building
Growing Power Inc., a non-profit urban farm organization at 5500 W. Silver Spring Dr., Milwaukee, plans to build a five-story building for classrooms, offices, food and fish growing space, a demo kitchen, a retail food outlet and food processing space.
Growing Power and its president and chief executive officer, Will Allen, have received national attention for Allen’s efforts to create sustainable urban farms that provide healthy food for lower income individuals in areas, such as inner city neighborhoods, that have a lack of grocery stores. The organization works to provide neighborhood-based sustainable agricultural education.
As a result of its success, Growing Power says it needs more space to support production, classes, meetings, meal preparation, offices and on-site warehousing.
Integrated Mail plans expansion
Integrated Mail Industries, a mail processing company, plans to add a 50,000-square-foot expansion and 50 employees to its facility at 3450 W. Hopkins St., in the central city of Milwaukee.
The company currently has 120 employees in an 180,000-square-foot facility.
The addition space is needed because, “we’ve been expanding in our printing in all of the direct mail operations that we do,” said Integrated Mail chairman Bruce Arbit.
However, Arbit said the company has not determined when it will move forward with the expansion.
The company is making rezoning and certified survey map modification requests to the city as it prepares for the expansion, Arbit said.
The company owns 10 acres at the site and plans to provide 2 acres to the city to create a stormwater detention area to serve businesses in the 30th Street Industrial Corridor.
Valley Passage opens
Four additional miles of the Hank Aaron State Trail, including the Valley Passage connecting the Menomonee Valley to the south side, opened on Monday. The Menomonee Valley passage is intended to improve access to jobs in the valley for south side residents. It was be built at the same location where years ago south side workers walked through a tunnel and across a bridge to work in the valley. After much of the industry left the valley the bridge was torn down. The $3.8 million project included a bridge over the Menomonee River, a railroad underpass and a path leading up to South 37th and Pierce streets.
