A Milwaukee committee has decided again to postpone the enforcement of the city's deconstruction ordinance, which requires contractors to disassemble rather than demolish blighted homes.

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The Milwaukee Public Museum announced Thursday that it has chosen various contractors, including Mortenson Construction, to design and build a new home that it will share with the Betty Brinn Children's Museum in downtown Milwaukee.

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Milwaukee officials are planning a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday for the latest housing additions to two local subdivisions where government incentives help encourage both home ownership and development in parts of the city.

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The City of Milwaukee will impose new restrictions on public gatherings as the number of coronavirus cases surges in the state.

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Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett's proposed 2021 budget would spend $16.7 million less than this year on capital projects as the city grapples with the financial fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.

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When Mayor Tom Barrett presents his 2021 proposed budget Tuesday, it will set aside about $6.5 million for housing and homeownership in the city.

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The Milwaukee Public Museum and Betty Brinn Children's Museum have tentative plans to move to a new site. The public museum in 2018 released two design concepts for its proposed new building, including one on downtown's lakefront.

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Ken Leinbach was recently canoeing through the Menomonee Valley when he spotted a rare mink — something he'd never seen during more than 20 years of operating a Milwaukee environmental education center.

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A recent report finds the city of Milwaukee's array of housing programs are less efficient and receive less private money than programs in similar cities around the Midwest.

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When the developer Ann Pieper Eisenbrown decided to use specially treated lumber, instead of steel and concrete, for her new apartment building in Milwaukee's Walker's Point neighborhood, she was mostly thinking about the environment.

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