Market Insights

Pinnon Meats is planning to open a third location in Beloit in a strip mall to be built on Willowbrook Road.

A Rock County Board committee has shot down the idea of putting the Woodman’s Sports and Convention Center in Janesville to a countywide referendum.

Shoppers lined up before dawn Tuesday outside and inside the doors of Janesville’s new Hy-Vee grocer.

One of Beloit’s favorite dining and entertainment spots is planning to offer an all-new environment for customers in about a month.

The former Exclusive Company record store on Milton Avenue in Janesville is about to go exclusively pizza. Or at least, the front half of the building is.

An entertainment venue named after the owner of the first bowling alley in Beloit is being proposed by Hendrick Commercial Properties.

Grocer Hy-Vee’s storefront lights glow at dusk in a January 2023 Gazette file photo. The grocer is set to open Tuesday after spending months renovating the 97,000-square-foot former Shopko store. The city separately announced it plans to add a four-way stop at the new supermarket’s Lexington Drive entrance, which is across the street from a main entry to grocery competitor Woodman’s.

Steve Korslin and three of his pals were learning how to chuck axes at Papa Docs Axe Throwing, a new ax-throwing gallery that opened this month on West Milwaukee Street in downtown Janesville. It’s the newest in a growing circuit of more than a dozen such galleries scattered across southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois, and the first one to open in Janesville.

The Next Step transitional living space will include 17-units for unhoused families with young children, on-site childcare and an outdoor playground.(Family Services of Southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois, Inc.)

Jane Blain Gilbertson, owner and President and CEO of Blain's Farm & Fleet, was recently recognized as one of Wisconsin's Most Influential Business Leaders of 2022 by Biztimes Media.