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Big ideas grow in Wisconsin
Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) Secretary and CEO Missy Hughes visited Green Bay’s Fork Farms today with a simple message: Wisconsin can help businesses and entrepreneurs bring big ideas to life.
WEDC Secretary Hughes to visit Fork Farms at TitletownTech
Missy Hughes, secretary and CEO of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, is visiting Fork Farms, makers of an innovative indoor farming system that allows users to grow more than 394 pounds of food a year in just 9 square feet.
Now available: Episode 2 of the Wisconsin Employer Vaccine Forum
In a series focused on how employers can help build public support for COVID-19 vaccines, the second episode contains insights from employment and disability law to make sure that employers' communications and practices do not violate employee medical rights and protections.
Kwik Trip awarded additional $5 million in tax credits for exceeding expansion goals
Kwik Trip is being awarded an additional $5 million in tax credits by the state after it exceeded original job growth and capital investment goals at its La Crosse campus over the last five years, even throughout the pandemic.
Kwik Trip’s La Crosse campus continues to expand
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Kwik Trip is continuing to expand development and staffing of its food production and support campus in La Crosse, a project that has earned an additional $5 million in performance-based tax incentives from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) .
6 local startups each receive $10,000 grants from MKE Tech Hub Coalition, WEDC
Six local startups were recognized Monday night for $10,000 grants they each recently were awarded from the MKE Tech Hub Coalition.
Keeping Wisconsin’s restaurants open for business
Wisconsin restaurants, bars, bakeries, food trucks, breweries, wineries, distilleries and inns that prepare and serve food or beverages can now apply for funding equal to what was lost in the pandemic up to $10 million per business. The federal Small Business Administration’s Restaurant Revitalization Fund recipients do not have to repay the funding as long as it is used for eligible purposes by March 11, 2023.
City of Sturgeon Bay Receives $250,000 State Grant to Support Redevelopment of Theater
The City of Sturgeon Bay is receiving a $250,000 state grant to help Third Avenue Playhouse (TAP) renovate its theater located in downtown Sturgeon Bay.
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