Published: September 2, 2010
Tags: blog, casino, developer, Fetters, Hot Topics
By Tom Fetters
copy editor
Nearly 150 years after the Battle of Gettysburg, another conflict is taking place in the same area — this one pitting a casino developer against opponents who claim the proposed $75 million project to revamp a hotel and conference center less than a mile from the Gettysburg National Military Park would tarnish the historic battlefield’s reputation.
Published: September 1, 2010
Tags: blog, Hot Topics, Innovation Park, Lanane, Parks Administration building, TIF, UWM, Wauwatosa
Comments: 1
By Joe Lanane
staff writer
It looks increasingly likely that Wauwatosa city officials will approve their sixth TIF district this September, which will pave the way for University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee developers to purchase County Grounds property toward its Innovation Park project.
Published: August 31, 2010
Tags: blog, Concordia University, Gielow, Hot Topics, Mequon, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, MMSD, Rohde
Comments: 1
By Marie Rohde
staff writer
Mequon’s new mayor, Curt Gielow, says he’d like to see the vacant industrial park behind Aurora Advanced Health Care building on Port Washington Road developed as a water research center.
Published: August 26, 2010
Tags: blog, Hot Topics, Intermodal Station, Lanane, Milwaukee, Rail, shed, taxes, WisDOT
By Joe Lanane
staff writer
Back before then-President-elect Barack Obama formally revealed his ambitious plan to connect the Midwest through high-speed rail, there were already efforts under way to bring the Milwaukee Intermodal Station train shed into federal compliance.
Published: August 25, 2010
Tags: blog, Empire State Building, Fetters, Hot Topics, Penn Plaza
By Tom Fetters
copy editor
Developer David Greenbaum’s proposal to build a 67-story glass office tower a couple of blocks from the Empire State Building isn’t a threat to the famous skyscraper, as the Empire State Building’s owner contends.
Published: August 23, 2010
Tags: blog, flood, Hot Topics, laterals, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, MMSD, Rohde, storm
Comments: 3
By Marie Rohde
staff writer
It is you and I who are responsible for the sewage backups that did millions of dollars in damage to homes and businesses in the metro area last month, says the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District.
Published: August 20, 2010
Tags: high-speed rail, Hot Topics, Oconomowoc, Rail, WisDOT, Yovino
Comments: 1
By Joe Yovino
Web editor
You either hop on the train or get run over by it. That’s the sentiment coming out of the WisDOT camp this week. And, frankly, it’s refreshing to see.
Published: August 19, 2010
Tags: blog, Doyle, expansion, Hot Topics, I-39/90, Lanane, TPC, Transportation Projects Commission
By Joe Lanane
staff writer
Despite the news this week that Gov. Jim Doyle will convene the Transportation Projects Commission in, this, his final year in office, advocates of Interstate 39/90 expansion may not want to pop the cork just yet.
Published: August 18, 2010
Tags: blog, coal, Fetters, Hot Topics
Comments: 2
By Tom Fetters
copy editor
It may be cheap, but it’s dirty. And coal as an energy source won’t be cleaning up its act anytime soon.
Published: August 16, 2010
Tags: blog, Hot Topics, LEED, Rohde, USGBC
By Marie Rohde
staff writer
The U.S. Green Building Council’s name gives the impression that it is an organization of building trade professions, perhaps an agency of the federal government. It is not.
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