(Rock County, WI) This week’s release of the Q2 Rock Ready Index highlighted the ongoing momentum that is present within the Janesville-Beloit MSA’s economy. In addition to notching another pair of consecutive quarterly records, unemployment rates held steady and job...

(Town of Rock, WI) Alex Gary, APG Alliant Energy announced it has received “verbal approval” from the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin for the construction of a $512 million liquified natural gas (LNG) plant in the Town of Rock in Rock County. MORE INFO

(Town of Beloit) Alex Gary, APG Beloit-based Next Generation Construction, which has been one of Beloit’s top home builders over the past 10 years, is diving deep into the apartment building business. MORE INFO

(Janesville, WI) Tia Bethke, APG On Dec. 19, Thompson’s organization, International Boxing, will host five world championship fights inside the Woodman’s Center as part of the ‘Energy You Can Feel’ event.  MORE INFO

(Beloit, WI) Alex Gary, APG A Milwaukee-based real estate and property management company wants to turn the former Wright Elementary School at 1033 Woodward Ave. into residential apartments — if it can get the redevelopment numbers to work. MORE INFO

(Janesville, WI) Tia Bethke, APG The Janesville Community Development Authority has given the green light to $299,000 in HOME Investment Partnership funds for a Milwaukee-based nonprofit to create a ‘revolving fund’ to purchase, rehabilitate and resell affordable...

(Beloit, WI) Alex Gary, APG Although when the story of the 2020s is written for Beloit, the new $705 million Ho-Chunk casino, hotel and convention center project likely will be the main focus, the Hendricks family investment in the The Lincoln Academy will be in the...

(Janesville, WI) Neil Johnson, Gazette Under a change recently announced, Spring City Aviation has taken over operations at the privately-run fixed-base-operator station at the county airport on Janesville’s south end. REVV Aviation previously operated from the FBO...

(Milton, WI) Ryan Spoehr, APG The City of Milton is undertaking a hotel feasibility study to see if the community will support overnight lodging capacity. The city commissioned studies in 2013 and 2016, both of which suggested Milton could support a hotel. MORE INFO

(Janesville, WI) Neil Johnson, Gazette Gray skies spit rain over the Janesville area Saturday, but that didn’t stop the thunder of fighter jets, and it didn’t keep crowds away from a Pistons & Props airshow that’s starting to grow into a full-fledged flying event....