Milwaukee officials are making it clear that it’s not enough for developers and contractors to simply meet the various hiring targets that have been attached to projects that receive city money.

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For once, officials at the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District say one of their top projects for the past year can't be found underground. When they take account of their best work in 2016, they are just as likely to point to the top of the Northwestern Mutual Commons building.

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Now that the focus of the Northwestern Mutual Tower and Commons has shifted to landscaping and interior work, officials with the insurance company are looking back on the milestones the $450 million construction project reached in 2016.

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Members of Milwaukee's Common Council were offered a study in contrasts on Tuesday: The construction team working on the Northwestern Mutual Tower and Commons continue to meet the city's resident-hiring and contracting goal for the massive project. Meanwhile, south of Interstate 94, the group behind a much smaller Freshwater Plaza Apartments project is falling short.

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An Indiana company is alleging in a federal lawsuit that general contractor C.G. Schmidt has stiffed it on thousands of tons of steel and other materials supplied for the Northwestern Mutual Tower and Commons project.

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Picket lines started coming down at various C.G. Schmidt job sites Tuesday after the general contractor reached a new five-year agreement with the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 139.

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In spite of objections from a room full of people, plans for a proposed 27-story high-rise on Milwaukee’s east side received a committee nod on Tuesday. The vote brought the project marked out for a largely vacant lot on the ...

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One of the biggest labor organizations in the state has gotten bogged down in contract negotiations with general contractor C.G. Schmidt and is meanwhile alleging the company violated federal labor laws in terminating two union members’ employment.

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Federal appellate judges have upheld a lower court's decision to dismiss a general contractor's lawsuit alleging a subcontractor had improperly backed out of a bid to provide a glass curtain wall for Milwaukee's 833 East high-rise project.

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As construction crews at the Northwestern Mutual Tower and Commons site gear up for another busy summer, project officials took time to recognize their safety record thus far.

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