Market Insights

(Rock County, WI) Additional records were set for the Janesville-Beloit MSA during the second quarter of the year, which have increasingly become commonplace due to the area’s strong economy. These items, as well as others, are highlighted in this week’s release of the Q2 2023 Rock Ready Index.

The Milton Public Library is currently undergoing a much-needed expansion to its building and outdoor Story Gardens area.

OrthoMidwest Surgery Center welcomed guests to its official opening ceremony for its Beloit facility Friday on the site of the former Manor Restaurant on Freeman Parkway.

After years of redevelopment, what were once hotel rooms at the Monterey Hotel in downtown Janesville will soon become apartment units.

Woodman's Sports & Convention Center Newly released drawings show the front exterior of the planned Woodman’s Sports & Convention Center.

Coldwell Banker Commercial McGuire Mears & Associates announces the purchase of the commercial real estate brokerage business by new ownership. The office is located at 400 Midland Court, Suite 101, in Janesville.

A field of ragweed and bull thistle stands near the site of the former Ossit Church Furniture factory off the Hyatt Street bluff, east of Traxler Park in Janesville. The old industrial site as early as this week will start to see transformation to become Rock View Townhouses, a planned development of two eight-unit apartment buildings. The site is just east of an active Union Pacific rail line in a circa-1900 working-class neighborhood just north of downtown Janesville.

Outdoor event space An outdoor space funded by the 100 Extraordinary Women initiative is part of the planned expansion of Whitewater’s Irvin L. Young Memorial Library.

The empty lot on South Jackson Street near Monterey Park, is the proposed site of an $11 million new Boys & Girls Club of Janesville. The proposed 32,000 square-foot building is about three times larger than the current building.

The Beloit Ho-Chunk Nation casino and resort project could add up to 1,500 jobs in the area. The project received its final federal approval from the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 2022.