Published: January 11, 2011
Tags: barge, Basil Ryan, court, Department of Justice, Department of Natural Resources, DNR, eminent domain, Environment, Menomonee River, penalty, Thomas Cooper, Wisconsin Department of Transportation, WisDOT
Saying the owner of a sunken barge in Milwaukee was a “textbook example of a litigant playing fast and loose with the judicial system,” an appellate court judge Tuesday upheld more than $37,000 in environmental penalties. The case stems from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation’s seizure of a riverfront property at 260 N. 12th St. [...]
Published: November 24, 2010
Tags: Best Place, BrewCity, BrewCity Redevelopment Group, Cincinnati Restaurant Group, Daniel Glaser, Gorman, Gorman & Co., Haertel, Hofbrauhaus, Hofbrauhaus Brewery and Restaurant, Pabst Brewery, Thomas Cooper, Zilber
By Marie Rohde While there may be a valid dispute among investors in the Wauwatosa company that had been negotiating to open a Hofbrauhaus Brewery and Restaurant on the site of the former Pabst Brewery in Milwaukee, there is no cause for an injunction, a judge ruled on Wednesday. “I’m not sure I have the [...]
Published: October 15, 2010
Tags: barge, Basil Ryan, Biersdorf, Department of Natural Resources, DNR, Kloppenburg, Menomonee River, Menomonee Valley, Thomas Cooper, Wisconsin Department of Transportation, WisDOT
By Marie Rohde The former owner of a storage yard in Milwaukee’s Menomonee Valley whose property was seized through eminent domain faces a Dec. 1 deadline to remove a barge that sank in the river next to his former property. If Basil Ryan Jr. fails to haul the barge from the Menomonee River by the [...]
Published: March 19, 2009
Tags: Amy Stear, Maria Monteagudo, Steve Baas, Thomas Cooper
Milwaukee wants to collect public input next month on the rules designed to guide the city’s sick-leave law. Milwaukee staff members finished drafting the rules, which specify what businesses must do to satisfy the broad language of the sick-leave law, said Maria Monteagudo, the city’s employee relations director. Milwaukee will release the draft to the [...]
