By Marie Rohde Faced with damaged property and no potential buyers, the nonprofit owner of the vacant St. Michael Hospital on Milwaukee’s north side has decided to tear down the structure. Bids to raze the hospital will be let in ...

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By Joe Lanane The real estate market could determine if Milwaukee County has an extra $8 million to spend on major projects in 2011. Nearly half of the county‘s proposed $17.2 million capital improvement budget relies on the county selling ...

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By Joe Lanane Innovation Park critics and supporters disagree over whether the development on the Milwaukee County Grounds in Wauwatosa will help or hinder property values and growth on nearby properties. Bill Holahan, chairman of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee economics ...

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By Joe Lanane The Wauwatosa Common Council approved a resolution Tuesday on the creation of a tax-incremental finance district for a portion of the Milwaukee County Grounds that will be used for the creation of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Innovation ...

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By Joe Lanane A Milwaukee County supervisor says the county needs a new parks maintenance building and should help pay for it by selling the existing facility and the land it’s on. But others aren’t sold on the idea. Supervisor ...

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By Sean Ryan A four-month redesign of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee engineering campus in Wauwatosa has delayed the project but calmed environmental opposition. The most vocal opponents of the campus plan have been environmentalists trying to protect a butterfly habitat ...

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By Sean Ryan A strategy to preserve land during construction of a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus in Wauwatosa is polarizing the project developer and environmentalists. The UWM Real Estate Foundation Inc., which is developing the project, accepts the strategy even ...

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Sean Ryan [email protected] The Milwaukee County Board on Thursday approved 15-4 the sale of Milwaukee County land in Wauwatosa to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for construction of an engineering campus. The Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors also considered and rejected ...

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Sean Ryan [email protected] The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s main campus has enough room for the development of new engineering buildings, but parking would be a problem. In fact, there is no perfect location for a new College of Engineering and Applied ...

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