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PHOTOS: Project partners rub elbows at Daily Reporter’s 27th annual Top Projects
The Daily Reporter celebrated Wisconsin’s top construction projects at its 27th annual event in Brookfield, honoring 42 projects with 350 attendees.
Top Projects of 2025: Woodman’s Sports & Convention Center
Woodman's Sports & Convention Center (WSCC) is a 134,447-square-foot, $40.5 million facility that transforms the former site of a Sears anchor store at the Janesville Mall into a regional hub for sports, conventions and large-scale events.
Top Projects of 2025: Wisconsin Reliability Project
The Wisconsin Reliability Project, completed by Michels Pipeline in partnership with TC Energy, represents a landmark infrastructure upgrade across Wisconsin and northern Illinois.
Top Projects of 2025: WIS 130-133 Bridge over Wisconsin River Design-Build
The WIS 130 Lone Rock Wisconsin River Bridges project replaced three structurally deficient, 80-plus-year-old steel truss bridges with two prestressed, multi-span concrete girder bridges spanning approximately 1,000 feet each over both channels of the Wisconsin River south of Lone Rock, Wis. Delivered as WisDOT's first design-build initiative, the project saved the state more than $2.5 million in [...]
Top Projects of 2025: Urban Ecology Center – Washington Park
VJS Construction Services led the renovation and expansion of the Urban Ecology Center in Washington Park, a $13 million, 28,000-square-foot project completed alongside design partner Quorum Architects.
Top Projects of 2025: Urban Ecology Center – Prairie Springs on Park
The renovation of this 100-plus-year-old, 11,361-square-foot building into an event hall for Urban Ecology presented significant complexity from the outset, ultimately reaching a project cost of $5.2 million.
Top Projects of 2025: The Westerly Pewaukee
Moore Construction Services delivered The Westerly, a 138-unit senior living community spanning 193,082 square feet on a 4.72-acre site in Pewaukee, Wisconsin, at a project cost of $38.6 million.
Top Projects of 2025: The Dylin
The Dylin, a 52,279-square-foot, three-story aparthotel in Madison's Capitol East neighborhood, represents a remarkable feat of construction — merging historic preservation with modern building techniques on a tightly constrained 0.52-acre urban lot at a cost of $12,039,000.
Top Projects of 2025: Tennessen Flats and Fussville Market
Tennessen Flats and Fussville Market is a 197,555 sq. ft. mixed-use development in Menomonee Falls comprising three buildings with 173 residential units and multiple on-site retail suites at a cost of $35.5 million.
Top Projects of 2025: Schuetz Container Systems
McShane Construction Company delivered a 372,000-square-foot design-build manufacturing and distribution facility for Schuetz Container Systems in Kenosha, Wis., completing the $52.9 million project with a perfect safety record across nearly 94,000 man-hours.
Top Projects of 2025: SSM Health Sun Prairie Outpatient Center
SSM Health's Sun Prairie Outpatient Center represents a landmark achievement in ambulatory care construction, transforming a former stand-alone emergency center site into a 90,000-square-foot, $64 million regional destination for outpatient surgery and comprehensive eye care.
Top Projects of 2025: RUSD – Starbuck Middle School Addition & Renovation
Hunzinger Construction delivered the Starbuck Middle School Addition and Renovation — a 142,657-square-foot, $42.3 million project for Racine Unified School District — transforming an aging elementary school into a unified K-8 campus without displacing a single student or interrupting instruction.
Today’s News
- South Milwaukee apartment project canceled after financing shortfall
- Governor candidate supports moratorium for future data centers
- Wausau Equipment facility changes hands in New Berlin
- Wisconsin Laborers union backs Crowley in governor’s race
- Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez drops out of governor’s race
- Home construction planned for former Manitowoc mall site
- Local costs a factor in I-794 removal proposal
- Wisconsin Pre-Bid Meetings – Week of July 20, 2026
- Rockwell’s New Berlin proposal gets initial approval
- Michigan approves Canadian oil giant’s Line 5 pipeline project
- Construction industry resilient despite higher prices
- Marketing firm Derse gets ready to build Oak Creek HQ
Project Profiles
- First prefabricated bridge in US installed in Eau Claire County
- Illinois developer worked with Wisconsin contractor to build 258-unit Wauwatosa apartment complex
- VJS Construction raises the roof for Bruce Guadalupe Community School expansion project
- Microgrid pilot project will store energy for village affected by outages
- Dane County sees uptick in highway work zone crashes, on track to exceed last year
- The Hop streetcar will debut newest service route in fall with limited service
- FPC Live slims venue proposal to 1 downtown building
- Children’s Hospital urgent care center in Milwaukee gets first round of city approval
- With Sonag Construction shut down, feds move to block indicted owner from collecting leftover assets
- Four contractors selected to build border wall prototypes
- UW-Milwaukee’s Greenstreet shaping minds (and the city)
- Turning the Corner(s) (PHOTO SLIDESHOW)