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Milwaukee code enforcement head leaving job
Art Dahlberg may be moving to Cincinnati, but that’s not going to take the Packers fan out of him.
Uniform code lacks uniform response
Milwaukee officials have drafted an ordinance that would require special inspections of construction projects to prevent accidents like one that left a 15-year-old boy dead after a concrete panel fell off the O’Donnell Park parking garage.
Milwaukee tweaks home-repair loans
Milwaukee aldermen are still debating the eligibility requirements for a home-repair loan program even as the proposal nears a final vote.
Lawmaker would benefit from his landlord bill
A Republican lawmaker pushing a sweeping landlord-tenant bill would himself benefit from one of its provisions.
Building code uniformity raises local control questions
Advocates of a uniform code for commercial buildings are developing a compromise they concede would remove much of the uniformity from their proposal.
Business owners fed up with city inspections
The owner of a Milwaukee construction company insists he could double his business if city inspectors returned his phone calls.
Demolition possible for crumbling Milwaukee garage
Milwaukee's Department of Neighborhood Services is losing patience with the owner of a downtown parking garage, which includes a ground-floor auto repair shop.
Milwaukee has money to burn on rehabilitation projects
A February deadline is looming for the city of Milwaukee to spend millions of dollars on neighborhood rehabilitation projects.
Milwaukee closes parking garage due to cracking concrete (UPDATE)
By Marie Rohde Milwaukee officials closed the garage at 601 W. Wells St. on Friday after months of warning the building owners that safety repairs needed to be made. “We […]
Getting off the mat: Milwaukee, activists take foreclosure fight to banks
By Marie Rohde One out of every 10 homes in Milwaukee has been lost by owners to their lenders through foreclosure during the past three years. Many of those homes […]
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- Trump announces $19M modernization of coal plant near Portage
- Wauwatosa shops for specialty grocer
- Wisconsin allocates nearly $50M in tax credits for housing projects
- Contractors eager to fill positions as open construction jobs tick up to 259,000
- Wisconsin awards $130,000 for construction and trade worker training
- Milwaukee manufacturer plans expansion with data center growth
- Megaprojects push Milwaukee construction costs above U.S. average
- Brown County drops data center moratorium proposal
- Cobalt Partners share North Shore Library development plans
- Zignego Co. scores $45M highway contract at start of construction season
- New Berlin residents cold on Rockwell Automations plan
- TOP BIDDERS: The biggest recent winning bids from around Wisconsin | June 1
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)