Designs for a 32-story, $140 million tower on a prominent site in Milwaukee's Third Ward won a key review board's approval Wednesday.

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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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Wisconsin municipalities are due to receive about $20 billion in federal aid in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a sum that's more than twice the amount of federal aid cities and counties got following the 2008 Great Recession.

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The Wisconsin Center District is seeking subcontractors to work on the organization's $420 million build-out of the expo center in downtown Milwaukee.

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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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