Business Development

We Energies plans to spend $335 million on a distribution project to serve Microsoft’s data center development on land originally intended for Foxconn in Mount Pleasant. 

A new state program will give 10 rural communities across Wisconsin access funding and resources to help meet their economic development goals.

Froedtert Hospital is planning to build a nine-story patient tower on its main campus in Wauwatosa, the hospital system announced Tuesday. The 225,000-square-foot tower will include inpatient care floors, a new main lobby expansion and a bridge connector to a parking structure that is currently under construction. If the project is approved by the city…

Two health care organizations have pulled the plug on a planned merger that would have affected about 2 million patients in Wisconsin and three other Midwest states. Marshfield Clinic Health System and Essentia Health said Friday they will not move forward with a planned merger. The organizations announced in 2022 that they signed a memorandum…

Kwik Trip plans to spend over $151 million in Wisconsin to support the company’s continued growth. The move will create more than 500 jobs by 2027. Those plans would qualify the La Crosse-based convenience store chain to earn an additional $15 million in state tax credits through an agreement established in 2017. The company’s plan…

A Canadian energy firm hopes to begin work this winter on a project to slow erosion near one of its oil and gas pipelines amid an ongoing legal struggle with the Bad River tribe. Enbridge is seeking approval from federal, state and tribal agencies to install trees along roughly 400 feet of the Bad River…

A company that owns a Superior shipyard is moving ahead with plans to secure up to $40 million in financing to expand its operations, a move its chief executive says will create hundreds of jobs. Fraser Industries, parent company of Fraser Shipyards, is seeking funds as part of plans to reduce a four-year backlog of…

Foxconn has qualified for a third round of state subsidies for its development in Mount Pleasant, bringing the total amount it’s been approved to receive up to nearly $44 million. Last month, Foxconn was given notice it would receive a little more than $6.3 million in state tax credits for the 2022 fiscal year, down…

In her role as executive director of the Platteville Business Incubator, Kate Koziol said she learned there are no mistakes in the entrepreneurial world. “There’s just ideas that didn’t execute well,” Koziol says. “And you can retool it or refine it. You can always learn from something.” But, she added, rural entrepreneurs may sometimes feel…

Over the next several years, GE HealthCare plans to move operations at locations in Milwaukee and Wauwatosa to Waukesha, affecting roughly 1,000 workers. The company made the announcement to employees Wednesday, saying the move will happen “in waves” over the next few years as it works to modernize its Waukesha location. According to a spokesperson,…