(Beloit, WI) Construction on Amazon's 1 million square foot, build-to-suit fulfillment center in Beloit's Gateway Business Park is underway. The development, which is occurring on 80-acres of certified, shovel-ready property, is affiliated with Seefried Industrial...

(Janesville, WI) Adam Duxter, WMSN Fox 47 A major restoration project near downtown Janesville is continuing to take shape. Formerly known as the Chase Bank location on Milwaukee Street, crews have unearthed the former First National Bank building. To some, it’s been...

(Orfordville, WI) Adam Duxter, WISC-TV Channel 3 A Rock County community is working to avoid becoming a food desert by creating a community grocery store. Food is Fuel, owned by Orfordville native Diana Grenawalt, provides fresh produce, meat and other goods to those...

(Janesville, WI) Catherine Idzerda, Gazette In the last two years, Blackhawk Technical College has established more than a dozen new diploma and certificate programs in response to what local businesses say they need from future employees. MORE INFO

(Janesville, WI) Neil Johnson, Gazette It’s a niche market: waste oil burners that are used to heat buildings. But Rock Energy Systems, a parent company that for years has produced Lanair and Clean Burn furnaces in a plant on Capitol Circle Drive, is now the...

(Janesville, WI) Ashley McCallum, Gazette “Shift Change” is a 35-minute documentary by Bill Roach that skims the surface of the closure of GM in 2008 and captures reactions from former workers and business leaders inspired to lead the charge in turning the community...

(Janesville, WI) Catherine Idzerda, Gazette Compassionate and quality nursing care for an aging parent makes all the difference. In this case, that care led to a $50,000 donation by the JP Cullen Foundation to the Nancy B. Parker Nursing Scholars Program. MORE INFO

(Beloit, WI) Austin Montgomery, BDN On Thursday, the Greater Beloit Economic Development Corporation (GBEDC) closed on the real estate sale of the 80-acre parcel southeast of the Colley Road-Gateway Boulevard intersection that's being developed into a 1 million...

(Rock County, WI) According to SmartAsset’s™ fourth annual study on the best places to work in manufacturing, the Janesville-Beloit MSA ranks among the Top 25 metropolitan statistical areas in the U.S. In addition to the Janesville-Beloit MSA, the only other WI metro...

(Beloit, WI) Austin Montgomery, BDN The Wright and Wagner Lofts project will add a 52-apartment, four-story building at the corner of Fourth Street and Grand Avenue with potential plans for two additional apartment buildings to be built on space closer to the Rock...