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The butcher shop, grocery stores and other retailers that years ago helped make for a thriving hub of commerce have vanished from this village's downtown.
Read More »Hardware store closing displays small town retail struggles
Siblings find way to keep Madison hardware store in family amid changing times
Scott Novotny's nickname – Mr. Salty – was truly fitting. Every fall would find the owner of the Quality True Value Hardware Store in Madison, a business Novotny bought from his parents in 2006, bringing in loads of ice melt in preparation for the inevitable slick sidewalks and driveways that are part and parcel of Wisconsin winters. The 50-pound bags would be stacked in front of the store, lying in heaps along its sidewalk, and around the building's south side, into its small parking lot.
Read More »Furniture store opens new location in Grand Chute
In an age when brick-and-mortar shops are closing left and right and online shopping is becoming ever more popular, why would one man decide to tear down an old factory and put up his own 100,000-square-foot store?
Tagged with: Appleton Internet retail tax increment finance district Wisconsin Economic Development Corp.
Read More »Bon-Ton Stores to close after auction fails to produce a buyer
The Bon-Ton Stores will become the latest casualty in a retreat from brick-and-mortar retail, after a savior failed to show up to a bankruptcy auction this week.
Tagged with: Boston Store retail
Read More »First-floor retail shows vitality, but not reality
By Marie Rohde
staff writer
Urban planners say Milwaukee needs first-floor retail space with new construction, but developers say the need isn’t there and the city should relax its requirements.
Tagged with: blog development Hot Topics retail Rohde
Read More »Cudahy weighs two properties for big-box developer
By Sean Ryan Cudahy can support only one big-box retail store, leaving planners debating whether such a project should be built on the city’s Iceport property or on land near the edge of town. Cudahy is discussing the potential development ...
Tagged with: Cobalt Partners Cudahy retail
Read More »Housing projects stumble in bumpy market
By Paul Snyder The Gallina Cos. is asking Madison for a two-year extension to build an 81-acre subdivision on the city’s west side. Craig Enzenroth, president of Middleton-based Gallina, said the real estate market is too shaky to immediately move ...
Tagged with: housing Madison Madison Plan Commission market multifamily real estate retail Sanborn single family Sundquist
Read More »Service sector grows, but new jobs are few (1:59 p.m. 1/6/10)
By Tali Arbel AP Business Writer New York (AP)— A gauge of the U.S. service sector returned to growth last month, aided by the holiday season’s retail sales. The expansion reflected a slowly improving economy — but it was too ...
Tagged with: Capital Economics Labor Department retail unemployment
Read More »Shoppers spend a little more during holiday season
By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Holiday shoppers spent a little more this season, according to data released Monday, giving merchants some reason for cheer. The spending bounce means retailers managed to avoid a repeat of ...
Tagged with: retail sales shopping
Read More »The past and future decade in business at a glance
The Associated Press A look at the decade that was and the decade to come, by industry: BANKING THE PAST DECADE: The nation’s big banks swaggered into the decade as owners of the world. They leave it humbled and, in ...
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