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Sean Ryan [email protected] Development groups say they’ll spend the next month lobbying for changes to a Milwaukee ordinance increasing hiring and wage requirements after the city’s Common Council sent the item back to committee Tuesday. Developers don’t want the ordinance ...

Tagged with: Greater Milwaukee Association of Realtors Michael Murphy

Sean Ryan [email protected] The possibility of lawsuits trumped Southwest Wisconsin Technical College’s plan to forgo bid bond requirements to help local companies compete for campus projects. The Fennimore-based college told contractors last week that bid bonds will be required for ...

Sean Ryan [email protected] Supporters of hiring and wage requirements for Milwaukee construction projects say they see a way to counter the city’s rising unemployment and help union companies compete for private projects. But detractors in the development and construction industry ...

Sean Ryan [email protected] Business associations are meeting opposition in their push for municipalities to cap the amount their private consultants charge developers for plan reviews. Many municipalities hire private engineering firms to review traffic changes and environmental effects and design ...

Sean Ryan [email protected] Municipalities on Friday learned they will have another opportunity to submit projects for federal stimulus cash and will have one year, rather than 75 days, to prepare to bid the work. City officials said the extension will ...

Sean Ryan [email protected] Lawyers representing The Bentley Co. are dropping out of two lawsuits because the company is closing. Bentley, Milwaukee, lost a $93,000 lawsuit Feb. 23 because the company closed Dec. 29 and did not want to pay attorney ...

Sean Ryan [email protected] Milwaukee officials this week amplified their call for the state to spend more money on local roads and less on highway expansion projects. But pushing for the redirection of state money away from state and interstate highway ...

Tagged with: Christopher Klein Dan Vrakas Randy Hopper Robert Bauman Ryan Murray Tom Barrett

Sean Ryan [email protected] The city of Milwaukee may never know why a five-year-old sewer pipe collapsed underneath Locust Street. It’s uncommon for combined sewer pipes to collapse. The two most recent cases involved 100-year-old brick sewers that caved in after ...

Sean Ryan [email protected] Somewhere between many and most of Wisconsin’s engineering firms have been forced to lay off workers due to the slumping economy. Kevin Hagen, vice president of Graef, Milwaukee, and director of the American Council of Engineering Companies ...

Sean Ryan [email protected] The Highway J Citizens Group on Friday sued the village of Richfield for annexing a business park because the group is worried the move will lead to more development. Richfield annexed the Helsan Business Park in November, ...