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By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com MILWAUKEE – In the late 1800s, this city was hopping with breweries. One of the biggest was Pabst, which remained a dominant player for nearly a century, making hundreds of millions of barrels of beer from its sprawling headquarters east of what is now Interstate 43. By the time Pabst shut down in 1996, many of its...

PRESS RELEASE URBAN OPEN SPACE FOUNDATION 200 North Blount Street Madison Wisconsin 53703 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Briana Meier 255 9877, x13 bmeier@uosf.org MADISON - The soil pile growing on an open field at the corner of Ingersoll and East Wilson streets is a down payment on Madison’s future Central Park. The Urban Open Space Foundation is allowing Terra Engineering and Construction Company to store clean fill...

Contact: Rose Lynch, DWD Communications Director, 608-266-6753 Jessica Iverson, DOR Communications Officer, 608-261-2271 Revenue, Workforce Development project creating greater awareness of credits for a group of low-income working families MADISON-In an effort to increase awareness of tax credits among lower income families and to encourage participation in these credits, the Department of Revenue and...

For More Information Contact: Scott Reigstad, Forward Wisconsin, 608.261.2506 Madison – Wisconsin communities can now showcase their assets to growing businesses with a glitzy new Internet marketing tool developed by Forward Wisconsin and a consortium of economic development groups. Best of all, it’s free. Location One Information System, or LOIS, is a powerful online database that contains state and county-level demographic...

Contact: Lesley Sillaman (608) 267-8823 The Dane County Controller’s office, led by Charles Hicklin, has earned The Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting awarded by the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA), for the county’s comprehensive annual financial report (CAFR). Hicklin, the county’s chief financial officer, had primary responsibility for preparing the...

For more information, contact: Dennis Dean (414) 274-3003 MILWAUKEE ‹ March 15, 2005‹More than 50 attorneys from Milwaukee and surrounding communities have combined to produce a major legal resource that will answer questions from other attorneys and legal experts about procedures that arise daily in legal practice. Jay E. Grenig, a professor at Marquette University Law School and Nathan A. Fishbach, a shareholder at Whyte Hirschboeck...

Suttle-Straus, a Waunakee based communications company, has completed the move into its new 120,000 square foot distribution cen-ter. The new building houses the company’s digital imaging, mailing, IT and fulfillment operations. It replaces a 36,000 square foot facility that was located across the street from the main plant. The new structure is connected to the 90,000 square foot main...