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 is moving to force the owners of the dilapidated Northridge Mall to tear down the long-abandoned shopping center, a step officials hope would lead to redevelopment.

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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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Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett has vetoed a budget amendment that would support a newly enacted city policy requiring the deconstruction — rather than demolition — of historic houses, saying the policy has hindered the redevelopment of blighted properties.

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Eden's Guelig Waste Removal and Demolition will tear down buildings to make way for Foxconn Technology Group's factory, under a deal approved by the Mount Pleasant Village Board on Monday.

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State officials on Wednesday pledged $500,000 to the city of Janesville to help raze a General Motors factory that has languished for nearly a decade there.

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Construction crews are beginning demolition work at the former General Motors plant in southern Wisconsin.

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One of the country's largest domed stadiums collapsed Monday into a pile of jagged concrete and a vast cloud of smoke in a scheduled implosion in downtown Atlanta.

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Milwaukee’s Common Council has approved a proposal that would require certain residential properties scheduled for demolition to instead be deconstructed. Specifically, the deconstruction requirements would apply to structures that were built before 1930, are found in a historic district or have ...

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A pair of Milwaukee city officials say residents and the environment stand to benefit if older buildings are deconstructed, rather than simply demolished.

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