Published: March 8, 2010
Tags: Agnew, Bruce Block, butterfly, engineering campus, Friends of the Monarch Trail, habitat, Milwaukee County Grounds, preservation, research, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, UWM Real Estate Foundation Inc., Wauwatosa
By Sean Ryan A four-month redesign of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee engineering campus in Wauwatosa has delayed the project but calmed environmental opposition. The most vocal opponents of the campus plan have been environmentalists trying to protect a butterfly habitat on the Milwaukee County Grounds, which is where the Innovation Park project would be built. [...]
Published: December 7, 2009
Tags: Barb Agnew, Clark, County Board Committee on Economic and Community Development, David Gilbert, engineering campus, Friends of the Monarch Trail, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee County Grounds, Milwaukee Riverkeeper, Nenn, preservation, UWM Real Estate Foundation, UWM Real Estate Foundation Inc., Wauwatosa
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By Sean Ryan A strategy to preserve land during construction of a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus in Wauwatosa is polarizing the project developer and environmentalists. The UWM Real Estate Foundation Inc., which is developing the project, accepts the strategy even though it will force a complete redesign of the engineering campus. “We need to rework [...]
Published: July 8, 2009
Tags: engineering campus, land sale, Milwaukee County, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com Milwaukee County will get a $13.55 million windfall by selling land in Wauwatosa for a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee engineering campus. But the land sale is putting the cash-strapped county’s elected officials at odds as they debate how to spend the money. The county in May decided to sell 89 acres in the [...]