COVID-19

The Milwaukee-based Zilber Family Foundation is granting $3 million in emergency funding to support nonprofit organizations as they respond to COVID-19. 

Wisconsin needs to engage in a "smart restart of its economy" involving a phased re-opening of businesses based on regional and statewide health data and trends, Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce president Tim Sheehy said today.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has extended his Safer at Home order to May 26, while easing a few restrictions on some businesses. 

The developers of 4200 On The Lake, a 236-unit luxury apartment building on Lake Michigan in St. Francis, are moving forward with construction work even as the state and region deal the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.

As the coronavirus, and the economic fallout created by the response to the virus, have hit the United States, many have sought comparisons to prior downturns.

With so many customers stuck at home, several Wisconsin-based auto insurers and insurance companies across the country are providing financial relief to policy holders in the form of discounts or cash and credit refunds.

Brown Deer-based Badger Meter Inc. has shifted to a four-day work week in an effort to control costs in response to business slowdown related to the coronavirus outbreak.

Coronavirus-related cancellations of events booked by VISIT Milwaukee have resulted in an estimated $47 million in lost economic impact for the region, president and chief executive officer Peggy Williams-Smith said Wednesday. 

When Marla Poytinger temporarily closed her bar-entertainment business last month due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, she needed to figure out a way to stay afloat while continuing to pay and provide health insurance for more than 60 employees.

Smithfield Foods Inc. announced today that it will close its Patrick Cudahy dry sausage and bacon plant in Cudahy for two weeks, beginning later this week. Some employees at the plant have tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus, the company said.