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The 44-story Couture apartment tower, under construction near the downtown Milwaukee lakefront, could see its first tenants move into the lower apartment floors by this time next year, according to developer Rick Barrett who spoke to Rotary Club of Milwaukee members on Tuesday morning.

Construction and warehouse equipment manufacturer Wildeck Inc. has submitted plans to the city of Waukesha to repurpose the 13.89-acre former Eaton Corp. manufacturing site at 1900 E. North Ave.

Eagle-based dock manufacturer Lifetime Piers, the sister company of pier installer Summerset Marine, plans to move its operations to a 246,970-square-foot, multi-tenant industrial building it is planning in Oconomowoc.

Parkland Center, a 222,704-square-foot office building on Milwaukee’s far northwest side has been sold to a Pennsylvania investor for $20.8 million, according to state records.

An affiliate of Milwaukee-based real estate company Zilber Ltd. has sold five buildings, totaling 179,342 square feet of building space on 23 acres, in the Business Park of Kenosha for a total of $33.2 million, according to state records.

Fair Park Business Center, a 119,971-square-foot office building at 620 S. 76th St. on Milwaukee's far west side has sold to a New York investor for $14.6 million, according to state records.

The long vacant Aeroshade lot at the corner of Oakland Avenue and Ellis Street near downtown Waukesha was home to its first sizable gathering in more than seven years on Friday morning when dozens of local officials, developers, volunteers, and affordable housing booster gathered to celebrate the groundbreaking of Habitat for Humanity of Waukesha County’s 18-lot subdivision.

BizStarts, the Milwaukee-based nonprofit that’s helped to mentor and train entrepreneurs since 2008, has announced its plans to open a marketplace that will allow its small business hopefuls to sell their wares and communicate with customers.

A California investor has snatched up a recently constructed building in Greenfield that is serving as the newest location for Range USA – a chain of indoor-gun-range-meets-gun-shop with locations across the country.

Despite drawing jeers from a few dozen neighborhood residents – and even a lawsuit from five nearby condo owners – a proposal to construct a 55-unit apartment complex on land owned by St. Mark’s Episcopal Church at the corner of North Hackett Avenue and Belleview Place, near Downer Avenue on Milwaukee's East Side, has cleared an initial governmental hurdle.

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Greendale officials are planning to create a tax increment finance district to assist with the redevelopment of the former Boston Store at Southridge Mall.