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Building code uniformity raises local control questions (access required)

Published: May 15, 2013
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Advocates of a uniform code for commercial buildings are developing a compromise they concede would remove much of the uniformity from their proposal.

Business owners fed up with city inspections (access required)

Published: March 27, 2012
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The owner of a Milwaukee construction company insists he could double his business if city inspectors returned his phone calls.

Demolition possible for crumbling Milwaukee garage (access required)

Published: November 16, 2011
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Milwaukee’s Department of Neighborhood Services is losing patience with the owner of a downtown parking garage, which includes a ground-floor auto repair shop.

Milwaukee has money to burn on rehabilitation projects (access required)

Published: September 16, 2011
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A February deadline is looming for the city of Milwaukee to spend millions of dollars on neighborhood rehabilitation projects.

Milwaukee closes parking garage due to cracking concrete (UPDATE)

Published: February 4, 2011
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By Marie Rohde Milwaukee officials closed the garage at 601 W. Wells St. on Friday after months of warning the building owners that safety repairs needed to be made. “We didn’t feel that the garage was in danger of collapsing on Friday,” said Art Dahlberg, the city commissioner of the Department of Neighborhood Services. “But [...]

Getting off the mat: Milwaukee, activists take foreclosure fight to banks (access required)

Published: November 23, 2010
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By Marie Rohde One out of every 10 homes in Milwaukee has been lost by owners to their lenders through foreclosure during the past three years. Many of those homes still are vacant. More than 5,000 other properties simply were abandoned. It’s a crisis for neighborhoods and the city, said Alderman Michael Murphy. “The value [...]