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Economic Development Feature
Redevelopment renaissance: Calumet County projects drive economic growth, meet key needs
INSIGHT PUBLICATIONS
As work on the massive Brillion Works project continues to progress, AriensCo is also taking steps to address the needs of its workforce and the community, including child care, housing and health care.
AriensCo Chairman and CEO Dan Ariens says when Brillion Iron Works closed in 2016, he felt called to purchase the 140-acre property because he knew it would sit idle and hurt the community. “I don’t know anybody who would have put the kind of resources we had from the outset to get it where it is today,” he says...
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Attract, Develop and Retain Diverse Talent
Expanding options: Organizations get innovative to attract employees
INSIGHT PUBLICATIONS
FOND DU LAC -- In the face of a demographic crisis in which job growth is outpacing population growth, Fond du Lac County is taking bold steps to attract younger workers. In August, Envision Greater Fond du Lac partnered with Fond du Lac County and Fond du Lac County Capital Resources to roll out a program that’s the first of its kind in Wisconsin.
The Fond du Lac County Worker Relocation Program, available to any business based in the county, allows companies to offer prospective hires an incentive of up to $15,000 with the ability to receive a 50 percent reimbursement (maximum of $7,500) of the incentive amount when the employee successfully completes 12 months of concurrent residency and employment in Fond du Lac County with the same employer...Read More 4>
Technology and Innovation
Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding to help construct LNG barge
WLUK
STURGEON BAY -- A Sturgeon Bay shipbuilder will help construct what it believes to be the largest LNG (liquefied natural gas) bunkering barge ever made in the United States.
Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding is partnering with Crowley Maritime Corporation on the project.
The 416-foot vessel will offer capacity for 12,000 m3 (3.17 million gallons) of LNG and when complete it will be the largest Jones Act-compliant vessel of its kind, becoming the second Jones Act-compliant bunker barge Shell has under long-term charter in the U.S. It will be used to help expand current LNG network capacity and meet demands for cleaner energy....
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Expansion and Business Development in the New North
Appleton company breaks ground on new office
WLUK
APPLETON -- A Madison-based company is expanding with a new Appleton office.
The Gordon Flesch Company broke ground on its new office on Tempest Court Wednesday. The company provides technology for offices.
The more than 16,000 square-foot space will offer more service capabilities, increased technology showroom space and a new call center for the company’s Elevity managed technology services...
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Expansion and Business Development in the New North
Advocate Aurora's 16-bed Grafton expansion was fully built off-site to cut months off construction timeline
BIZTIMES
When Advocate Aurora Health opens its new 16-bed addition at its Grafton medical center, it will be the first building in Wisconsin that was fully built using a method called modular construction.
The Grafton facility is among Appleton-based The Boldt Co.’s first health care projects to use what it calls full volumetric modularization. In other words, it was almost entirely pre-fabricated off site, minus things like the building foundation and underground plumbing.
Boldt has used this building method in other projects within the last year or so. But, Grafton is the contractor’s first permanent installation. It’s also the first of its kind in the state, according to Boldt...
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