Forget buy-one-get-one sales on small items at department stores. How about buying five houses for the rock-bottom price of $5,000?

Tagged with: Department of City Development foreclosures STRONG Homes Loan program

Save for Northwestern Mutual's headquarters project, various Milwaukee developments that have received public money are falling short of a city-imposed goal to provide jobs to local residents.

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Several Milwaukee Common Council members, in opposing both spending city money on a proposed extension of the city's streetcar line and the reappointment of the Department of City Development commissioner, say they are not satisfied with what they see as a lack of development outside downtown.

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The Redevelopment Authority of the City of Milwaukee is awarding Johnson Controls $250,000 to study a parcel on the lakefront as a possible site to build a new corporate headquarters.

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A Milwaukee alderman’s frustration with the city’s development chief has prompted a proposal to tighten oversight of the Planning Division.

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A Milwaukee agency is taking heat for failing to spend anywhere near as much money as it has had the authority to borrow to help businesses pay for facade and street improvements.

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Contractor Cindy Kuhs sold homes in two Milwaukee subdivisions before the recession. Now the president of Hales Corners-based Kuhs Quality Homes claims building more would be a losing game unless the city offered construction subsidies.

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Milwaukee’s economic development director said he is so confident a manufacturing building proposed for Century City will attract tenants, he already is planning for a second one.

Tagged with: Century City Department of City Development General Capital Group Irgens Development Partners Jeff Fleming Nik Kovac Redevelopment Authority of the City of Milwaukee Robert Bauman Rocky Marcoux Tom Barrett Willie Wade

A Milwaukee alderman wants to make sure officials can track exactly how the city spends money on foreclosed homes.

Tagged with: common council Department of City Development foreclosures Michael Murphy Robert Bauman Strong Neighborhood Investment Plan Tom Barrett

Twenty real estate brokers responded to Milwaukee’s request for private marketing services for city-owned properties.

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