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Milwaukee is moving to force the owners of the dilapidated Northridge Mall to tear down the long-abandoned shopping center, a step officials hope would lead to redevelopment.

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Although Wisconsin voters in early April approved more than $670 million worth of school building projects, the approval rate for these referendums slumped in this spring’s election from the record level it had hit last year.

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A newly released poll suggests opposition is growing to a central part of Gov. Tony Evers’ proposed transportation budget: higher gas taxes for more roadwork.

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Construction is scheduled to begin this month on a transportation artery for Foxconn Technology Group’s factory in Mount Pleasant.

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After lawmakers in January temporarily halted a sputtering law requiring historic homes to be deconstructed rather than demolished, Milwaukee officials are planning to use deconstruction to take down not quite half of the blighted properties the city hopes to clear away this year.

After a year that brought two sad examples of the dangers faced by those who work on roadways, a bipartisan group of lawmakers is moving to broaden the penalties that apply drivers who break the rules in Wisconsin work zones.

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Faith Technologies is planning to start construction on what officials are calling the first “smart” manufacturing plant in Wisconsin, an off-grid operation that stands to be built with millions worth of state and local support.

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Voters on Tuesday approved $678.4 million worth of construction-related school referendums statewide in another big election cycle for K-12 building projects.

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A construction lobbying group is pushing for changes to state law that would give Wisconsin companies a bidding advantage on state projects and require companies that misclassify workers to tack the cost of taxpayer-funded health insurance and other benefits onto public bids.

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It’s go time. That’s the message construction officials overseeing Foxconn Technology Group’s massive factory project in Racine County delivered to a crowd of contractors on Wednesday.

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