City officials celebrated Milwaukee's first deconstruction project on Thursday, admiring the work of a contractor taking apart a vacant house on the city's north side — some two years after a policy was enacted requiring blighted homes to be taken apart instead of torn down.

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City staff and private contractors have taken down fewer than half of the blighted properties they had hoped to this year after Milwaukee officials put their struggling deconstruction policy on hold to hasten the removal of dilapidated buildings. The number ...

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Milwaukee officials told a committee on Wednesday that they remain confident the delayed Couture high-rise will ultimately be built — but that they may also have to pursue other options for the completion of a branch of the city's streetcar line that now depends on the construction of the Couture.

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After seeing the number of condemned properties increase in the city last year, Milwaukee officials voted on Tuesday to recommend postponement for a city policy requiring contractors to deconstruct rather than demolish historic houses.

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A Milwaukee Common Council committee gave a favorable recommendation on Tuesday to proposals advancing both Komatsu Mining Corp.'s plans for a waterfront headquarters and a nearby development overseen by Michels Corp.

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The Milwaukee Common Council defeated a mayoral veto Tuesday that would have slashed cash from a city blight-removal policy often requiring the deconstruction, rather than demolition, of historic homes.

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Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett has vetoed a budget amendment that would support a newly enacted city policy requiring the deconstruction — rather than demolition — of historic houses, saying the policy has hindered the redevelopment of blighted properties.

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With work on Foxconn's new factory underway in Racine County, Milwaukee officials are just beginning to discuss a question baked into the company's promise of bringing thousands of jobs: How will people get to the project site?

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Milwaukee aldermen have approved a proposal that would require certain downtown construction and demolition projects to come equipped with canopies meant to protect passersby.

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A revised proposal requiring that certain construction projects in downtown Milwaukee have canopies installed to protect passersby has cleared its first hurdle with city aldermen.

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