Recent Articles from Erika Strebel
Despite mini-tornado, plan changes, Miron delivers state-of-the-art structure
What does a university do with one of the biggest parking lots on campus?
Urbanite more than lives up to its name
The Urbanite is more than just a new addition to Milwaukee’s skyline. The luxury high-rise development on the East Side is also a milestone for its owner, the Milwaukee developer New Land Enterprises.
North End helps reshape downtown Milwaukee
The North End grew up with trendy, up-and-coming developments along north Water Street.
Mercantile addition a standout in Milwaukee’s Third Ward
On one hand, the Mercantile Building addition is exactly what its name says it is — a 35,000-square-foot addition to the converted warehouse in Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward.
Pieters a ‘well-oiled machine’
When Miron Construction chief executive and president David Voss Jr. asked Kyle Pieters to take on his first project nearly a decade ago, Pieters had a lot to learn.
For Huntington, insurance is about keeping workers safe
For many people, insurance is about paying a premium every month.
Trades line up in support of apprenticeship bills
When Dan Neve, education and training coordinator for Staab Construction Corp., goes to Career Day at local high schools in Marshfield, almost every hand shoots up when he asks, "Who’s going to college?"
High court lifts stay on arbitration over Green Bay construction project
The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a lower court’s decision to halt arbitration proceedings over a dispute involving a Green Bay construction project until an insurance dispute connected to the project had been resolved.
Former owner of electrical contractor pleads guilty in tax case
The former owner of an electrical-contracting company who was indicted last year for failing to pay payroll taxes has taken a plea deal.
Evers says Wisconsin joining group fighting climate change
Gov. Tony Evers says Wisconsin will be joining the U.S. Climate Alliance, a group that works to enforce an international climate accord and combat climate change at the state level.
Courts not seeing flurry of lawsuits after statute-of-repose change
After the Wisconsin Senate last spring passed legislation that would give contractors further protection from certain lawsuits, the state’s plaintiffs’ attorney bar advised members in March to file lawsuits before the new law took effect that summer.
Conditional Use: High court to weigh in on permitting dispute
When local officials placed additional insurance requirements on Enbridge Energy Co. in 2015 as part of granting a conditional-use permit for a pipeline project in northeast Dane County, company officials were quick to file an appeal.
Today’s News
- Kraus-Anderson will deliver first phase of $175M Big Bend sports complex
- Long-delayed Milwaukee boutique hotel plans show signs of life
- I-794 bridge improvements starting in Milwaukee
- Wisconsin Pre-Bid Meetings – Week of May 4, 2026
- Construction worker killed in lumber pile collapse in West Bend
- Milwaukee to Madison train line to cost $200M with state help
- I-794 removal could see $500M in development, but more crashes
- Cobalt Partners changes up its Third Ward moving plans
- State program releases $135M for local roads
- Eau Claire approves $270M biomanufacturing facility deal
- Manitowoc port development gets $20 million boost
- Mark Hammond, Wauwatosa development director, will leave for nonprofit job
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)















