Milwaukee aldermen on Tuesday proposed using about a third of the nearly $400 million the city is due to receive in federal COVID-19 aid on affordable housing, as Mayor Tom Barrett's administration plans to release its own spending plan later this week.

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A Milwaukee committee balked on Tuesday at a proposal to ban the demolition of city-owned residential properties for the rest of the year, giving local officials more time to decide if they want to use part of the millions the city is expected to receive in federal COVID-19 aid for housing rehabilitation.

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A developer on Wednesday laid out its plans to build a 32-story, $140 million tower at a prominent site near the entrance to Milwaukee's Third Ward.

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Milwaukee city officials said Wednesday that they'll soon have some good news about the long-stalled Couture high-rise planned for a site overlooking the city's lakefront.

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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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