(Beloit, WI) Hillary Gavan, BDN Guided by the motto “how, not if,” 2017 Beloit College graduate and entrepreneur Cole Swartz has turned a long-vacant school building into a thriving community hub. MORE INFO

(Beloit, WI) Clint Wolf, BDN There were 19 companies participating in the event, as well as the Stateline Boys and Girls Club and CareerTek. This marked the sixth year for the Community Construction Zone, which had the theme this year of Dare to Dream. MORE INFO

(Janesville. WI) Alex Gary, APG Beloit College and Blackhawk Technical College officially put pen to paper on a partnership that each hopes will lead to lots more students transferring from Blackhawk to Beloit. MORE INFO

(Beloit WI) Alex Gary, APG A Milwaukee- based developer will break ground in October on a $20 million, 200,000-square-foot warehouse and distribution center in the Gateway Business Park. This summer, the Greater Beloit Economic Development Council announced it had a...

(Janesville, WI) Hannah Powell, APG Bricks & Minifigs, that held its grand opening Saturday at 1401 Creston Park Dr. in the Creston Park Shopping Center, has retail stores across the U.S. In Wisconsin, there are existing stores in Fitchburg, Beaver Dam,...

(Beloit, WI) Alex Gary, APG Beloit College came in at No. 92 on an annual list of the best liberal arts colleges in the country compiled by U.S. News & World Report. MORE INFO

(Beloit, WI) Clint Wolf, BDN Beloit Memorial Hospital is entering a new era of patient care as it nears completion of a project that will covert patient rooms to all single-patient private suites. MORE INFO

(Beloit, WI) Alex Gary, APG One of Beloit’s oldest companies is trying to be cool again. There are 148 products in the initial round of voting for the “Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin” competition, which is sponsored by Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce and Johnson...

(Beloit, WI) Alex Gary, APG The Stateline Area’s first play cafe is now open on East Inman Parkway. The Terra Cottage Play Cafe recently opened at 1230 E. Inman, in the area that used to be the front of the Skatin’ Station. MORE INFO

(Beloit, WI) Alex Gary, APG On Sept. 11, the Wisconsin Policy Forum updated its Property Values and Taxes Data Tool. It tracks property values of every municipality in the state back to 1985. What the forum’s property tool shows is that in Beloit over the past 10...