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An ordinance repealing the race- and gender-specific provisions of the city of Milwaukee’s minority hiring policies passed in committee Tuesday.

Tagged with: minority businesses set-asides

After more than an hour of testimony Monday, Milwaukee’s City Plan Commission approved the creation of the Sherman Park Neighborhood Improvement District.

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Employment in construction, mining and natural resources in Milwaukee rose 13.9 percent from July 2012 to July 2013, according to data from the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce.

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The city of Milwaukee owns 2,858 nonindustrial vacant lots, and it is acquiring more each year because of tax foreclosures.

Tagged with: Cindy Kuhs foreclosures Habitat for Humanity Jeff Fleming Kuhs Quality Homes

Construction crews at the Avalon Theater in Grand Junction, Colo., stumbled upon an amazing discovery while removing portions of the wall earlier this week -- a wallet in great condition that appeared to be from the 1970s: http://www.krextv.com/news/around-the-region/Construction-Workers-Return-Wallet-from-1967-to-Owner-223407421.html

The city of Milwaukee is close to officially repealing from its city contracts a series of set-asides for specific minorities.

Tagged with: DBE minority hiring set-asides

Work on the future Marshall County Childrens' Art Center in Benton, Ky., is on hold after crews found human remains: http://www.wpsdlocal6.com/home/ticker/Construction-on-hold-after-human-remains-found-223217811.html

WisDOT will host the final public hearing Thursday on the conversion of U.S. 41 to an interstate.

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A Milwaukee nonprofit that focuses on historic preservation has a new face at the helm.

John Gabrielse, the co-founder of a Wisconsin utility construction company, died Friday.