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Seeing your downtown with fresh eyes: How communities can rethink their visitor assets

December 15, 2025|Downtown Development|

The most powerful visitor assets are often hiding in plain sight, overlooked not because they lack value but because the community has grown so accustomed to them.

WEDC, Foxconn announce additional $569 million investment in Racine County

November 25, 2025|News|

Foxconn is expanding its Wisconsin manufacturing footprint to meet rising demand from U.S. customers and strengthen domestic supply chains for advancing innovation in data management and resilient, next-generation technological capabilities for the future.

Strengthening sense of connection helps fuel communities’ growth

November 24, 2025|Featured, Thrive Newsletter, WI Economic Summit|

Highlights from the fourth annual Wisconsin Economic Summit, where business, community, and state and local government leaders exchanged ideas on how to overcome longstanding challenges and unlock investments in their communities.

Fueling Wisconsin’s entrepreneurial spirit: BizStarts Midwest Visiting Professors Symposium

November 18, 2025|Entrepreneurship, News, Thrive Newsletter|

Entrepreneurs, educators, and community leaders received world-class entrepreneurship education in Milwaukee at the Midwest Visiting Professors Symposium (MVPS), an event hosted by BizStarts.

WEDC launches Talent Recruitment Grant Program to attract new residents

November 13, 2025|News, Thrive Newsletter, Wisconsin Communities|

The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) is announcing the launch of the Talent Recruitment Grant Program, a new initiative designed to support local efforts to attract new residents to Wisconsin.

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