Strip club offer tops market rate in Milwaukee
A strip club owner’s offer to rent a vacant, Milwaukee-owned property is better than the market rate but not good enough to persuade city leaders to jump at the deal.
Boston Store deal clears hurdle
The lack of assurance that other retail development would follow Milwaukee’s offering Boston Store $1.2 million to stay downtown frustrated some aldermen Wednesday even as the Common Council approved the deal.
Unions in hurry to certify
Spurred by projected hiring goals, local unions are in a rush to certify members in Milwaukee’s Residents Preference Program before the first of three major projects breaks ground in fall.
Milwaukee aldermen eye clock in tenant search
Milwaukee aldermen warned the Department of City Development on Wednesday that they are running out of patience with a prolonged tenant search for a vacant downtown property.
Milwaukee planning for more spec
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.
Boston Store TIF sparks questions
Two Milwaukee aldermen want the city’s comptroller to vet a proposed tax incremental financing district extension that would keep Boston Store downtown until 2018.
Milwaukee council to list parking structure retail space
Retail space in a city-owned parking structure in Milwaukee is one step closer to being occupied.
Tax foreclosures yield lots of vacancies
The city of Milwaukee owns 2,858 nonindustrial vacant lots, and it is acquiring more each year because of tax foreclosures.
Rates drop to develop some Milwaukee land
Eager to fill long-vacant land, the city of Milwaukee is coordinating 1 percent interest loans for development in highly distressed areas of the city.
Interest rising in former Finney Library
The former Finney Library in Milwaukee’s Sherman Park neighborhood once again has attracted potential buyers.
Milwaukee looking to breathe new life into former Finney Library (UPDATE)
Milwaukee is looking for a buyer and developer for a former library.
Milwaukee backs theater despite risk
In the age of the suburban multiplex, Lee Barczak has his work cut out for him at a dilapidated Milwaukee movie palace built in 1929.
Today’s News
- Milwaukee Mayor’s $1.9B budget proposal has infrastructure boost
- As employers face labor shortages, Biden administration rolls out playbook for training workers
- Wisconsin Senate committee votes against confirmation for four DNR policy board appointees
- October proclaimed Architecture Awareness Month in Wisconsin
- Pre-Bid Meetings – Week of October 2, 2023
- Corn mill owners plead to federal charges in fatal explosion, will pay $11.25 million
- BUILDING BLOCKS: Second phase of Lower Yahara River Trail construction
- Sky-high mortgage rates leave homes unaffordable for more buyers, sending new home sales tumbling
- Forecast: Economic challenges ahead as rates rise and labor shortages remain
- CBRE opens office on 18th floor of Milwaukee BMO Tower
- Former inmate able to rebuild life through work in construction trades
- Zignego to lead $60M I-894 improvement project
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)