Foxconn buys 3-story office in downtown Racine for $6.25M

February 26, 2019 3:24 pm Leave a comment

A company associated with Foxconn Technology Group has completed the purchase of a downtown Racine office building that the technology giant has said it will use as an innovation hub.

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Competitor wins bid for bankrupt distillery

December 26, 2018 8:18 am Leave a comment

In this Nov. 26, 2018 photo, a sign sits outside Death's Door Spirits in Middleton, Wis. A competing distillery has submitted a winning bid of nearly $2.5 million for Death’s Door Distillery in Middleton, which filed for bankruptcy in November. (Barry Adams/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)

Wisconsin's largest distillery is on the path to new ownership after filing for bankruptcy last month.

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Foxconn spends $12M on innovation centers in Eau Claire, Green Bay

December 12, 2018 2:12 pm Leave a comment

Fencing surrounds the Haymarket Landing building in Eau Claire in 2016. FE Haymarket LLC, a company linked to the Foxconn Technology Group, recently bought three condo units inside the city's Haymarket landing building for $2.7 million. (File photo by Kevin Harnack)

Companies associated with the Foxconn Technology Group have spent nearly $12 million on two properties in Eau Claire and Green Bay that will serve as so-called innovation centers outside its planned factory in Mount Pleasant.

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Developers look beyond shopping to make malls thrive again

December 12, 2018 10:41 am Leave a comment

Developers are hoping to attract more visitors to the Shops of Grand Avenue mall in downtown Milwaukee with a renovation project that will bring offices, apartments and a "food hall" to the hulking building on West Wisconsin Avenue.

Plans to renovate the Shops of Grand Avenue mall in downtown Milwaukee call for replacing shops there with offices, apartments and a food hall, all in hopes of making the city's Westown district bustle again.

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Foxconn buys downtown Racine building for ‘smart cities’ laboratory

October 2, 2018 3:20 pm Leave a comment

Alan Yeung, Foxconn U.S. director of strategic initiatives, announces the company has bought a 3-story building in downtown Racine that will serve as a research and development center just 9 miles from the $10 billion factory Foxconn is building in Mount Pleasant. (Staff photo by Nate Beck)

Foxconn Technology Group has bought a three-story building in downtown Racine to house a research and development center — just 9 miles from its main manufacturing plant in Mount Pleasant, where construction is already underway.

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August construction employment rises again in Wisconsin, nationally

September 21, 2018 3:50 pm Leave a comment

Forty-five states and the District of Columbia — Wisconsin included — added construction jobs between August 2017 and August 2018, while 33 states added construction jobs between July and August, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America.

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PUNCH LIST: David Belman on Foxconn and Housing (VIDEO)

August 3, 2018 9:03 am Leave a comment

David Belman, owner of Belman Homes and Belman Builders, sits down with The Daily Reporter writer Nate Beck to talk about housing issues and how they relate to the massive Foxconn Development in Mount Pleasant.

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