Phoenix lands tenant for large Mount Pleasant industrial building

Phoenix Investors LLC sealed a long-term lease with Beck Aluminum to expand into an almost 200,000-square-foot building in Mount Pleasant.

The company this summer will open in the new Mount Pleasant location at 7505 Durand Ave. It will replace the company’s Racine operations. Beck Aluminum, with operations in Ohio and Pennsylvania, is an aluminum alloy supplier that melts down and recycles scrap aluminum.

The company will receive financial support through the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp.…

Inspired by Belgian beer culture, Newburyport Brewing exec trades in marketing for manufacturing

Bill Fisher spent the better part of his career in “startup mode,” working in high-tech marketing roles at various startups throughout Greater Boston. But in 2012, he felt the call for something different, and recalled his 1996 semester abroad in Brussels where he was introduced to the European beer culture.

There were no breweries within a 10-mile radius of Newburyport, where Fisher lived with his family. So in 2012, he left his job at Bullhorn, a Boston software firm, to start Newburyport…

Silicon Valley software firm to double workforce in Birmingham

Silicon Valley-based software provider ISCS plans to double the workforce of its Birmingham office in the coming months as part of an aggressive expansion plan.

ISCS provides software-as-a-service cloud data storage for property and casualty insurance firms through its flagship SurePower Innovation platform. The company entered Birmingham last December with a team of five developers at 210 Inverness Parkway.

That team has since grown to include 20 mobile developers, software engineers and web developers,…

Mid-City scales back massive Northeast D.C. project by 20 percent

One of the largest planned community redevelopments in the District is now 21 percent smaller.

Mid-City Financial Corp., longtime owner of the 20-acre Brookland Manor apartment complex and adjacent Brentwood Village Shopping Center, has shaved roughly 500 units from its proposed overhaul in response to city concerns that the initial plan was too intense for the Northeast D.C. area in which it sits.

While Mid-City “remains fully committed to creating a unique, exciting and transformative project”…

Several Greater Washington hospitals are rethinking post-surgical care

If you’ve ever been through surgery, you know the rules. No eating or drinking anything in the 12 to 24 hours prior to the procedure, plenty of IV fluids and heavy narcotics followed by several days of bed rest.

But a growing number of U.S. hospitals have become convinced the evidence doesn’t support these long-followed protocols anymore.

“We’d been starving [patients], pumping them full of fluids,” said Dr. Martin Paul, chairman of surgery at Sibley Memorial Hospital in northwest D.C. “It’s amazing…