By Sean Ryan Past and present are clashing on the veterans administration grounds as preservationists oppose the demolition of two historic buildings to make room for soldier housing. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is collecting comments on its plan ...
Tagged with: Clement J. Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center historic Milwaukee Va.
Read More »By Sean Ryan A Marshfield-based sand mining company will pay $12,000 in penalties to the state to settle a lawsuit. The Wisconsin Department of Justice on Dec. 17 sued Don Nikolai Construction & Supply Inc. and its owner, Donald Nikolai, ...
Tagged with: Department of Justice lawsuit water pollution
Read More »By Sean Ryan Municipal engineers in southeast Wisconsin will not accept new runoff rules without an explanation of cost and effect for redevelopment projects. “We just need to think about more of the possibilities and kind of narrow down more ...
Tagged with: Mielke Milwaukee Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District redevelopment Ruekert & Mielke runoff storm water West Allis
Read More »By Sean Ryan A seemingly simple window replacement at the Milwaukee County Courthouse is threatening Walter Wilson’s near-perfect record of keeping projects on schedule. “In terms of timing and logistics, we have to be right dead on the money because ...
Tagged with: historic Milwaukee Milwaukee County Courthouse
Read More »By Sean Ryan Developers stand to lose no matter which way the state Supreme Court rules in a case prompted by a condominium project in the town of Pacific. The outcome of the lawsuit, which the court accepted Monday, will ...
Tagged with: condo Larson Supreme Court Wisconsin Realtors Association
Read More »By Sean Ryan We Energies and Bechtel Power Corp. are calling a truce in their feud over the Oak Creek power plant project. The utility and the contractor Monday announced the resolution of a claim Bechtel filed in December 2008 ...
Tagged with: coal extension Madison Gas & Electric power plant Public Service Commission of Wisconsin Sun Prairie We Energies WPPI Energy
Read More »Milwaukee/Emergency Bridge Repairs By Sean Ryan The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is negotiating a contract for Zoo Interchange repairs with Milwaukee Constructors LLC, but has not awarded the project. “Our hope is still that we can start work in December ...
Tagged with: Busalacchi Edward Kraemer & Sons Klein Lunda Construction Milwaukee Constructors Wisconsin Department of Transportation WisDOT Zenith Tech Zoo Zoo Interchange
Read More »By Sean Ryan Progress trumped caution Thursday when the Milwaukee County Board took an official step toward selling a Wauwatosa property for development of a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee engineering campus. Before the county can sell the land to the UWM ...
Tagged with: campus Lipscomb property Schmitt UWM UWM Real Estate Foundation
Read More »By Sean Ryan Regency Hills Development Corp. on Wednesday settled two state lawsuits charging the company with violating construction runoff permits on projects in Fredonia and Pleasant Prairie. The Kenosha-based developer will pay a combined $230,000 to settle the two ...
Tagged with: Department of Justice lawsuit runoff
Read More »By Sean Ryan Milwaukee County Board Chairman Lee Holloway said there is a good chance he will try to get the chairman position for the Southeastern Regional Transit Authority. The authority’s board of directors, which has nine appointed members, will ...
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