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Milwaukee committee rejects policy to ban demolition of vacant properties

June 8, 2021 3:13 pm Leave a comment

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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Milwaukee again pauses demolition ban, freezing deconstruction rules until 2022

February 2, 2021 2:50 pm Leave a comment

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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City likely to cut ties with company in $1.2M deconstruction contract

March 3, 2020 2:54 pm Leave a comment

An employee of Spencer Renovation & Construction pulls a nail from a stud at a house his employer was having “deconstructed,” rather than demolished, on Milwaukee’s Sixth Street. Deconstruction is generally perceived as a way to ensure useful materials are salvaged and not simply thrown away. But critics contend the city’s preference for deconstruction over simple demolition has hindered attempts to combat blight. On Tuesday, the Milwaukee Common Council voted to maintain a freeze on a policy banning the demolition of certain properties within city limits. (Staff photo by Nate Beck)

In another wrinkle for Milwaukee's struggling deconstruction program, local officials are moving to cut ties with a company hired last year to take apart, rather than tear down, 50 blighted houses in the city.

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Milwaukee extends deconstruction freeze, plans contractor training sessions

January 14, 2020 3:18 pm Leave a comment

Milwaukee officials on Tuesday recommended maintaining a freeze on a policy that had previously required the deconstruction, rather than demolition, of certain dilapidated properties throughout the city.

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Milwaukee council to try to override veto blocking $400K for blight removal

November 25, 2019 3:34 pm Leave a comment

A crew from WasteCap Resource Solutions’ former Razed & Found division removes materials from a house for reuse. The Milwaukee Common Council on Tuesday will consider Mayor Tom Barett's veto of a budget amendment that would have taken $400,000 from a housing initiative and put it into blight-removal efforts. (Photo submitted by Razed & Found)

The Milwaukee Common Council plans on Tuesday to take up a budget veto that Mayor Tom Barrett used to block a $400,000 increase for blight removal.

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After fits and false starts, Milwaukee officials mark city’s first deconstruction job

November 7, 2019 4:12 pm Leave a comment

Darnell Williams, of Spencer Renovation & Construction, pulls a nail from a stud at a house his employer is taking down at 3041 N. 6th St. in Milwaukee. It's the first house in Milwaukee to be deconstructed, rather than demolished, nearly two years after local officials adopted an ordinance requiring deconstruction for blighted properties. (Staff photo by Nate Beck)

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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DECONSTRUCTION DYSFUNCTION? Officials see little progress on raze list

October 8, 2019 3:49 pm Leave a comment

A crew from WasteCap Resource Solutions’ former Razed & Found division removes materials from a house for reuse. Milwaukee officials learned Tuesday that a local ordinance meant to encourage “deconstruction” projects of this sort is not producing the results supporters had hoped to see. (Photo submitted by Razed & Found)

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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City officials put deconstruction policy on hold until 2020 (VIDEO)

January 14, 2019 7:08 pm Leave a comment

Kathryn Thoman, senior vice president of the Kenosha contractor Recyclean, discusses some of the building materials the company has pulled from properties it has deconstructed and now has on display in its showroom. Thoman said she’ disappointed Milwaukee officials have decided to put on hold a policy that had enlisted businesses like hers to deconstruct rather than demolish condemned houses built before 1930. (Photo by Rick Benedict)

After sputtering in its inaugural year, a newly passed city policy requiring historic homes to be deconstructed rather than demolished is on-hold.

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Milwaukee committee favors pausing deconstruction policy, after blight spread in 2018

January 8, 2019 4:22 pm Leave a comment

Officials at Augustine Preparatory Academy, a private school at 2607 S. 5th St. in Milwaukee, have long planned to tear down seven vacant houses across the street from their school to make room for a parking lot and other possible developments. But in early 2018, school officials learned a recently passed city law requiring historic houses to be deconstructed rather than demolished would make their demolition plans too expensive. School officials are now calling on the city to pause the enforcement of the deconstruction policy long enough to allow them to knock down the vacant properties, which have attracted crime. (Staff photo by Nate Beck)

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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Milwaukee officials considering pausing deconstruction policy until 2020

January 3, 2019 3:36 pm Leave a comment

Milwaukee could pause its enforcement of a mandate requiring contractors to deconstruct, rather than demolish, historic homes after a assessment of the policy found that it struggled to get off the ground in 2018.

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