New North launching new multi-region alliance in early 2025, timed with NFL Draft

Economic development groups aim to launch a new multi-region alliance early next year, timed to coincide with the 2025 NFL Draft in Green Bay. 

Barb LaMue, president and CEO of the New North, discussed the plan yesterday during the Wisconsin Technology Council’s Early Stage Symposium in Madison. The group she leads seeks to advance economic growth and business development in the 18-county northeastern Wisconsin region. 

“We have a team of consultants that are looking at, how do we better connect the three larger hubs in our state?” she said, referring to the New North, the greater Madison area and Milwaukee 7, an economic development partnership spanning seven counties in southeastern Wisconsin. “We’re calling it, for now, the innovation triangle.”...