Published: November 22, 2010
Tags: Ashanti Hamilton, Ballentine, Department of City Development, DWD, Franciscan Sisters, Marcoux, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County Grounds, Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex, Scott Walker, St. Joseph's Hospital, St. Michael Hospital, Villard Avenue, Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare-Southeast Wisconsin Inc.
By Marie Rohde Faced with damaged property and no potential buyers, the nonprofit owner of the vacant St. Michael Hospital on Milwaukee’s north side has decided to tear down the structure. Bids to raze the hospital will be let in December, according to Anne Ballentine, a spokeswoman for the owner, Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare Southeast Wisconsin [...]
Published: October 25, 2010
Tags: City Campus Complex, Crystal Ridge, Franklin, Gerry Broderick, Kreklow, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County Courthouse, Milwaukee County Grounds, O'Donnell Park, parking garage, Public Policy Forum, Rob Henken, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, UW-Milwaukee
By Joe Lanane The real estate market could determine if Milwaukee County has an extra $8 million to spend on major projects in 2011. Nearly half of the county‘s proposed $17.2 million capital improvement budget relies on the county selling the Crystal Ridge Ski Area in Franklin and the northwest portion of the Milwaukee County [...]
Published: September 23, 2010
Tags: C.F. Associates, Crary, Dave Gilbert, Greater Milwaukee Association of Realtors, Holahan, Innovation Park, Milwaukee County Grounds, Nancy Welch, The Woods Management, UWM Real Estate Foundation, Wauwatosa
By Joe Lanane Innovation Park critics and supporters disagree over whether the development on the Milwaukee County Grounds in Wauwatosa will help or hinder property values and growth on nearby properties. Bill Holahan, chairman of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee economics department, said Wauwatosa has not completed its homework for the project by analyzing the risks [...]
Published: September 21, 2010
Tags: common council, Dennis McBride, Innovation Park, Jill Organ, Michael Walsh, Milwaukee County Grounds, tax-incremental finance district, TIF, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, UWM, Wauwatosa
By Joe Lanane The Wauwatosa Common Council approved a resolution Tuesday on the creation of a tax-incremental finance district for a portion of the Milwaukee County Grounds that will be used for the creation of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Innovation Park. The proposal was approved 10-3 after three years of negotiations between university and city [...]
Published: August 31, 2010
Tags: Broderick, Bultman, Innovation Park, Milwaukee County Grounds, parks maintenance building, Sanfelippo, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wauwatosa
By Joe Lanane A Milwaukee County supervisor says the county needs a new parks maintenance building and should help pay for it by selling the existing facility and the land it’s on. But others aren’t sold on the idea. Supervisor Joe Sanfelippo said the county can build a more modern and spacious structure on the [...]
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
Comments: 1
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: May 21, 2009
Tags: College of Engineering & Applied Science, Milwaukee County Grounds, UWM
Comments: 1
Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com The Milwaukee County Board on Thursday approved 15-4 the sale of Milwaukee County land in Wauwatosa to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for construction of an engineering campus. The Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors also considered and rejected suggestions ranging from tabling a decision to requiring the county give $2 million from its [...]
Published: May 18, 2009
Tags: College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Milwaukee County Grounds, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wauwatosa
Comments: 2
Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s main campus has enough room for the development of new engineering buildings, but parking would be a problem. In fact, there is no perfect location for a new College of Engineering and Applied Sciences building, said Alan Horowitz, chairman of the university committee overseeing long-range planning for engineering [...]
