Market Insights

Blackhawk Technical College Vice President of Finance and College Operations Renea Ranguette, BTC Fire and Emergency Services Program Coordinator Rob Balsamo, BTC Director of Advancement and Foundation Lisa Hurda, Blackhawk’s Law Enforcement Program Coordinator Troy Egger, BTC President Tracy Pierner, Janesville School District Superintendent and Blackhawk District Board Member Mark Holzman. Co-President of JP Cullen George Cullen, Senior Vice President of Corporate Services at Prent and Blackhawk District Board Member Rachel Andres and Principal Architect at Angus-Young Bradley Werginz gather to celebrate the groundbreaking of Blackhawk Technical College’s New Public Safety Education Center.

A rendering of what the former Crazy Joe’s furniture store at 314 W. Milwaukee Street could look like under plans to renovate it as a climate-controlled self-storage facility with storefront retail on the east end of the building West Milwaukee Street-facing facade.

In what Kwik Trip says is a rarity in its recent development projects, a new store on Wright Road in Janesville has hit a snag that could push its opening back a few months.

The retail clothing store Maurices has made plans to relocate from Uptown Janesville Mall to the former Hometown Buffet suite in the Pine Tree Plaza.

Letgo N Play, a new lego focused toy store they are preparing to open inside Uptown Janesville.

A Minnesota developer plans to fill most of the former Crazy Joe’s furniture store in downtown Janesville with climate- controlled self-storage units to serve a growing downtown apartment market.

The city of Janesville’s newest tax-increment district is at Center Avenue and Highway 11 on the south side—a swath of land the city hopes will at least be home to a 1.5-million-square-foot hydroponic strawberry greenhouse.

Renovation work at the Colonel Robert H. Morse Library on the Beloit College campus is expected to be complete by the summer of 2024.

A Janesville store that for decades has been a go-to for party favors, balloons, streamers—all the stuff of festivities—is having its last hurrah.

At Humes Road and Milton Avenue, traffic is flowing again, albeit in an altered pattern that might surprise those who haven’t traveled the corridor in awhile.