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Expansion and Business Development in the New North
Packers eye more Titletown development as phase 2 projects reach completion
WLUK
ASHWAUBENON - As new major components of the Titletown District begin to open, the Packers are still crafting what development could come next in the district.
Starting November 1st, people will start moving into the 152 apartment units in the Titletown Flats buildings.
“Each of these units has a private outdoor terrace and several of the units will have spectacular views looking back at Lambeau Field,” said Ed Policy, Packers Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel.
The apartments, along with a seven-story office building, and rows of townhomes make up phase 2 of construction on the 45-acre Titletown District...
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Promoting the Regional Brand
Konop Companies: Family owned business celebrates 75 years
WBAY
GREEN BAY – They’ve been a staple in breakrooms and company lobbies across Northeast Wisconsin for 75 years.
And today, all those vending machines are just a small portion of what Konop Companies has grown into, after beginning as a family-owned business that started making money one penny at a time.
Inside Konop Companies in Allouez hangs a picture of founder Louie Konop, and just a few feet away, the inspiration that started it all after he returned home from World War Two in 1946.
“And then he saw this little peanut machine route available, 120 penny peanut machines, he ran everywhere from up to Menominee, Michigan down to Sheboygan, filling peanuts and collecting pennies,” says Tom Konop, pointing to one of his dad’s original peanut machines...
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Technology and Innovation
Green Bay will offer free high-speed internet in parks where neighborhoods are short on broadband
GREEN BAY PRESS GAZETTE
GREEN BAY - Up to four Green Bay parks will become high-speed internet hotspots under a new city plan for federal pandemic relief money.
City staff members want to use $253,000 of CARES Act community development block grant funding to extend the city's high-speed internet service to several parks, each in a low- or moderate-income neighborhood of Green Bay where roughly one in every five households does not have an internet connection.
The first four parks up for consideration are Seymour Park on Ashland Avenue, Eastman Park in the Olde North neighborhood, Navarino Park on South Jackson Street and St. John's Park in the Downtown Green Bay neighborhood.
At Seymour Park, high-speed access would be a benefit to kids who use the park in summer, people who are homeless and job seekers for whom a computer and internet connection are necessities, said Miriah Kelley, a Seymour Park Neighborhood Association board member...
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Promoting the Regional Brand
Maritime Week celebrates Coast Guard in Sturgeon Bay
WBAY
APPLETON - It’s Maritime Week in Sturgeon Bay. The week celebrates the history of Door County and salutes the United States Coast Guard.
Sturgeon Bay is one of 29 communities in the nation to be a Coast Guard City. It’s the only Coast Guard City in Wisconsin...
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Expansion and Business Development in the New North
County Materials Corporation acquires Green Bay based Concrete Industries Inc.
COUNTY MATERIALS CORPORATION
MARATHON - Building on our reputation as a leader in the production of concrete construction and landscape products, County Materials Corporation announced it has acquired the Green Bay-based manufacturing assets and real estate of Concrete Industries Inc., effective August 2, 2021.
The acquisition of Concrete Industries Inc., an established company since 1995, adds to County Materials' manufacturing capabilities in pipe and structural precast products, including box culverts...
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