Business View Magazine | October 2020

266 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE OCTOBER 2020 AT A GLANCE FRANKLIN, WISCONSIN WHAT: Busy, progressive city; population 36,000 WHERE: Fifteen minutes from downtown Milwaukee WEBSITE: www.franklinwi.gov F ranklin is a rapidly growing city of 35,741 located on the I-94 Chicago-Milwaukee corridor just 20 minutes north of Foxconn and 20 minutes south of Lake Michigan Port of Milwaukee. With a third of the city still ripe for development despite remarkable growth year over year in both residential and business sectors, Franklin’s strategic location in Milwaukee County drives much of the new development with thousands of acres near rail and a foreign trade zone, just minutes from General Mitchell International Airport and less than an hour from O’Hare. These logistical advantages; combined with a favorable tax climate, competitive energy costs, and high-speed internet, make it an easy decision to pick Franklin. With a highly skilled and educated existing workforce, a Franklin K-12 school system ranked in the top 10 percent The space to be nklin, ISCONSIN