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Hilton team finds treasures in Loyalty Building
People who renovate century-old buildings expect the unexpected.
Make room: New Milwaukee hotels preparing to enter downtown market
Three new hotels are going up in downtown Milwaukee, leaving some worried about a crowded hospitality market and some real estate people waiting for the next opportunity.
That’s a wrap
Plastic wrap encloses the Loyalty Building in Milwaukee on Wednesday. The wrap is an extensive environmental precaution in place so a subcontractor working on the project can remove paint from the building’s exterior.
Lawsuit dismissed, clears way for Milwaukee hotel development
Madison-based Stevens Construction Corp. on Monday began converting a historic downtown Milwaukee building into a 128-room Hilton Garden Inn just hours after the dismissal of a lawsuit that had blocked the project.
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[caption id="attachment_39723" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="A crew from Kraemer Brothers LLC, Plain, works on a Hilton Garden Inn in the 5800 block of South Howell Avenue in Milwaukee, just south of General Mitchell International Airport. Tony Steinbrecher (left), a carpenter, checks the level of a parapet wall while Tim Kepler, a carpenter, adjusts the turnbuckle to make sure the wall i[...]
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- Trump announces $19M modernization of coal plant near Portage
- Wauwatosa shops for specialty grocer
- Wisconsin allocates nearly $50M in tax credits for housing projects
- Contractors eager to fill positions as open construction jobs tick up to 259,000
- Wisconsin awards $130,000 for construction and trade worker training
- Milwaukee manufacturer plans expansion with data center growth
- Megaprojects push Milwaukee construction costs above U.S. average
Project Profiles
- First prefabricated bridge in US installed in Eau Claire County
- Illinois developer worked with Wisconsin contractor to build 258-unit Wauwatosa apartment complex
- VJS Construction raises the roof for Bruce Guadalupe Community School expansion project
- Microgrid pilot project will store energy for village affected by outages
- Dane County sees uptick in highway work zone crashes, on track to exceed last year
- The Hop streetcar will debut newest service route in fall with limited service
- FPC Live slims venue proposal to 1 downtown building
- Children’s Hospital urgent care center in Milwaukee gets first round of city approval
- With Sonag Construction shut down, feds move to block indicted owner from collecting leftover assets
- Four contractors selected to build border wall prototypes
- UW-Milwaukee’s Greenstreet shaping minds (and the city)
- Turning the Corner(s) (PHOTO SLIDESHOW)