PORT WASHINGTON BUILDING TO BE REMODELED FOR OFFICES, RETAIL
A technology design and development firm is expanding its operations in Port Washington, where it will lease additional space at a building that's being renovated.
-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
CASHING IN ON CROPLAND: FARMLAND PRICES ON THE RISE
Wisconsin farmland prices rose 13 percent in the first quarter, and in the five-state Federal Reserve district that includes much of Wisconsin, prices were up 19 percent. -Wisconsin State Journal U.S. builders started work on more single-family homes in May and requested the most permits to build homes and apartments in three and a half years. The increase suggests the housing market is slowly recovering even as other areas of the economy have weakened. -Wisconsin State Journal In this Friday, June 1, 2012, photo, Troy Drake hammers a shingle onto the roof of a new house under construction in the Patrick Farms community in Pearl, Miss. Confidence among U.S. builders ticked up in June to a five-year high, an indication that the housing market is slowly improving. -Wisconsin State Journal Sales of existing homes rose through most of Wisconsin in May, the 11th consecutive year-over-year increase, while prices varied widely in different parts of the state. -Wisconsin State Journal ANOTHER 200 APARTMENTS POSSIBLE AT PARK EAST DEVELOPMENT Developer Barry Mandel is working on a third expansion at The North End apartments in Milwaukee's Park East area. The next phase would create 200 apartments built above street-level retail space, Mandel said Tuesday. -Milwaukee Journal Sentinel CONSTRUCTION UNIONS BACK LAKEFRONT DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL A proposed apartment high-rise, one of several ideas pitched for a downtown site overlooking Lake Michigan, is getting support from local construction unions. A proposed apartment high-rise, one of several ideas pitched for a downtown site overlooking Lake Michigan, is getting support from local construction unions. -Milwaukee Journal Sentinel MULTI-SPORT COMPLEX CALLED POSSIBLE 'JEWEL' FOR FRANKLIN | DEVELOPER HAS BIG DREAMS FOR CRYSTAL RIDGE A proposed sports complex could transform a community "eyesore," attract state and regional tournaments and generate economic growth in Franklin, according to the project developer and city officials. -Franklin NOW PARK EAST PROPOSAL ON HOLD | ACTION DELAYED OVER JANITORS' UNION OBJECTION A plan to revive the long-stalled Park East Square apartments proposal was delayed Monday by a County Board committee after one of the developers was criticized by the local janitors union. A plan to revive the long-stalled Park East Square apartments proposal was delayed Monday. -Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ALDERMAN'S PROPOSAL COULD THWART MILWAUKEE, WAUKESHA WATER TALKS | ALDERMAN WANTS TO LIMIT SALE TO JUST WAUKESHA Milwaukee officials Tuesday were poised to block the city from selling Lake Michigan water to the City of Waukesha - without directly rejecting talks - by refusing to sell water to all of Waukesha's designated future water service area. -Milwaukee Journal Sentinel DELAFIELD APPROVES TAX INCENTIVES The Common Council, with one dissenting vote, has approved real estate tax incentives for a proposed residential development located in downtown Delafield behind city hall. -Living Lake Country GENEVA RIDGE EMERGES FROM DIFFICULT TIME The former Interlaken Resort near Lake Geneva, which reopened in the summer of 2008 as the Lodge at Geneva Ridge, now has a new owner and its second new name in four years: Geneva Ridge Resort. -Milwaukee Journal Sentinel DECADE OF SLOW GROWTH FORECAST The U.S. is slogging through the weakest recovery since the Great Depression and will have slow economic growth for the rest of the decade, a market investment strategist for Fidelity Investments said Wednesday. -Milwaukee Journal Sentinel WI MAPLE SYRUP PRODUCTION DROPS BY TWO-THIRDS While most Wisconsinites were enjoying this spring's unusually warm weather, the state's maple-syrup industry was trying to salvage whatever little sap was flowing. Now officials have determined just how bad the harvest was. -Green Bay Press Gazette
In one sign of how much land values have fallen since the crash, Bridge Development Partners LLC has acquired a 50-acre industrial development site in the far southwest suburbs for a quarter of the price it agreed to pay for the property in 2008. -Milwaukee Business News
A La Crosse-based company is proposing to build a silica sand mine in Eau Claire County north of Augusta, near Highway 27 and the Eau Claire River, according to county planners. -Milwaukee Business News After hearing a closed session report about the responses to a developer request for information (RFI) for the Downtown Transit Center site, Monday the Milwaukee County Board's Economic and Community Development Committee voted. -Milwaukee Business News
Schlitz Park will add a one-mile outdoor vita course for tenants and the public. The course is scheduled for construction in 2013. -Milwaukee Business News
The La Crosse Common Council will meet in special session Thursday after the mayor vetoed a proposed development agreement with Kwik Trip Inc. that would have repaid some tax funds in return for a $31.9 million dairy expansion project. -Milwaukee Business News The city needs to move quickly on construction of Third Street and demolition of the center portion of the mall, city officials say. -Milwaukee Business News Traditionally, tourism has been the main economic force in Walworth County. Lake Geneva, Fontana and Williams Bay have been Chicago's tourist destination for decades, pumping millions of dollars each year into the Walworth County economy. -Milwaukee Business News | 
