Retrospective: Top Tosa Business Stories in 2012
During a year when politics often took our attention away from the business going on right around us, retail development in Wauwatosa went from next-to-nowhere to no-end-in-sight growth.
2012 may be remembered as the year retail business development in Wauwatosa started out in the doghouse and came out king of the hill. One year ago, the economic development gurus of Tosa were dismayed with the scope, the type and the timetables of new and proposed retail projects on the table and on the horizon. There were much higher hopes for bigger and bolder visions, such as UWM's Innovation Park technology research and development center – which just bore its first fruit Tuesday night. But now, the retail joy is overflowing, it is our city's shining beacon again, and that is thanks mostly to one magic name: Nordstrom. A year ago, a mere Nordstrom Rack clearance store was a bauble that had been dangled in front of Wauwatosa shoppers …
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