Economic Development

In many respects, downtown West Bend is thriving. Most storefronts are filled, its historic theater building is newly renovated, public...

Small businesses impacted by COVID-19 can now apply for the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation’s $75 million grant program.

The Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce has launched a grant program to provide monetary relief to local businesses that were damaged when recent protests against racism and police brutality in some cases escalated into looting and vandalism.

The Greater Milwaukee Foundation has donated $100,000 to the African American Chamber of Commerce of Wisconsin to establish a...

After trending higher in the first part of the decade, the city of West Allis saw population declines for five years in a row. Through 2018, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the city’s population was down by 1,001.

New Jersey-based information technology company GalaxE.Solutions, Inc. is planning to open a Milwaukee innovation center that will bring 300 tech jobs to the city.

Two first-time developers have plans for another entrepreneurial hub along Fond du Lac Avenue in Milwaukee's Sherman Park neighborhood.

Several Wisconsin companies impacted by the economic slowdown caused by social distancing measures to fight the coronavirus pandemic expect their companies to start recovering this summer or fall, according to a Wisconsin Technology Council survey.

Several municipalities in the greater Milwaukee area have established emergency relief fund programs to support staple businesses in their...

Lawmakers are nearing a deal expected to replenish the federal Paycheck Protection Program, but even if the round comes...