The Milwaukee Business Journal's most-read stories of 2018: Year in Review

The past year has seen some major upheaval in the business landscape across the Milwaukee area, and that goes well beyond the considerable amount of recently completed real estate development that has changed the city’s skyline.

Nationwide, brick-and-mortar retailers are on the decline and a few big business conglomerates like General Electric Co. are breaking up. Both of those trends are hitting the Milwaukee-area business community, as GE moves ahead with a plan to spin off GE Healthcare, which…