Business Development

John W. Miller takes over the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation at a time of economic uncertainty.

One of Microsoft’s top executives said he would support a new state law to regulate and set standards for data center developments across Wisconsin. 

Nice Girls of the North is a women’s collective hosting a monthly marketplace of eclectic creative wares, whose members help each other by sharing business tips and resources.

Wisconsin residents are continuing to push back against proposed data center developments throughout the state.

Under the newest revision to Foxconn’s contract with the state, Foxconn could earn up to $96 million in state tax credits through 2029.

Social media giant Meta plans to invest more than $1 billion to build a 700,000-square-foot data center campus in Beaver Dam, bringing with it more than 1,000 construction jobs and 100 operational jobs when the campus is completed.

A long vacant mall in Milwaukee, which has now been demolished by the city, may soon be the site of a future redevelopment.

Worried about private equity ownership, residents explore purchasing parks and running them as cooperatives. Wisconsin doesn’t make it easy.

A $23.5 million innovation center is now open on the site of the former Chrysler engine manufacturing plant in Kenosha. 

The Great Recession and other declines in manufacturing led to factory closures, and in the years since, local leaders have been working through what to do with the vacant properties.