Published: December 9, 2010
Tags: Chuck Erickson, Greenfield, Highway 100, Kastner, Kmart, Layton Avenue, Nancy Welch, Planning Commission, Target, Wal-Mart, Walmart, Walmart Supercenter, Wauwatosa
By Joe Lanane Trust is at the heart of what amounts to a handshake agreement between Greenfield and Walmart that the retailer will try to fill its former building after moving into a nearby superstore. The city this week approved a new Walmart Supercenter on West Layton Avenue and Highway 100 immediately south of the [...]
Published: October 20, 2010
Tags: common council, David Gilbert, Innovation Park, Nancy Welch, tax-incremental finance district, Tim Hanson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, UW-Milwaukee, UWM Real Estate Foundation, Wauwatosa
By Joe Lanane The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s request for a fourth extension in buying land for the Innovation Park project could force Wauwatosa to delay tax collections from the property. The city is backing a $12 million tax incremental finance district for the project to cover utility and road construction for Innovation Park, which is [...]
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: August 19, 2010
Tags: Birschel, Budget and Finance Committee, common council, Dave Gilbert, Innovation Park, Jim Schmitt, Luljak, Nancy Welch, Plan Commission, TIF, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, UWM, UWM Real Estate Foundation, Wauwatosa
By Joe Lanane A lack of officially committed developers for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Innovation Park is raising questions over the frugality of a Wauwatosa investment in the project. Bill Holahan, UWM economics department chairman, characterized the tentative developers for the project as “dance partners, not marriage partners.” He said the city should take more [...]
Published: August 18, 2010
Tags: common council, Didier, Innovation Park, Nancy Welch, Plan Commission, TIF, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wauwatosa
By Joe Lanane The office of Wauwatosa mayor Jill Didier confirmed Wednesday that city officials will meet with University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee developers on Thursday morning to discuss a proposed engineering campus. The $250 million UWM Innovation Park would include both academic and corporate buildings, as well as residential quarters. Wauwatosa is in the final approval [...]
Published: May 10, 2010
Tags: Board of Supervisors, Bob Duffy, Brookfield, Busalacchi, Christopher Klein, Czarnezki, Ertl, Federal Railroad Administration, FRA, high-speed rail, Milwaukee County Research Park, Nancy Welch, Oconomowoc, Rail, Wauwatosa, WisDOT
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By Sean Ryan A call to build a high-speed rail station in Wauwatosa rather than in Waukesha County has left planners debating how local needs factor into interstate transit plans. Joe Czarnezki, Milwaukee County clerk, said the state should eliminate the station proposed for Brookfield or Oconomowoc so one can be built near the Milwaukee [...]
Published: March 27, 2009
Tags: Alexander Eschweiler, Carlos Santiago, Economic and Community Development Committee, Eschweiler Buildings, John Weishan Jr., Michael J. Cudahy Innovation Park, Nancy Welch, Patrick Curley, Robert Bauman, Tom Barrett, Tom Luljak
Dustin Block dustin.block@dailyreporter.com Wauwatosa’s historic Eschweiler Buildings would be converted into a boutique hotel and restaurant as part of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s plans for a new engineering campus. But plans to restore the buildings, designed in the early 1900s by architect Alexander Eschweiler, concerned city and county officials wondering why the university wanted to [...]
