The Milwaukee Public Museum and Betty Brinn Children's Museum have tentative plans to move to a new site. The public museum in 2018 released two design concepts for its proposed new building, including one on downtown's lakefront.

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The Milwaukee Public Museum could be moving into Mitchell Park, sharing a site with Milwaukee County's well-known Domes structures under a plan the county board of supervisors on Thursday agreed to study.

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Milwaukee County faces a "seemingly insurmountable" logjam of repairs to its park and recreation facilities under its current regime of limited borrowing, a new Wisconsin Policy Forum report finds.

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Milwaukee County is seeking bids for a facade restoration project on the north and south sides of the Milwaukee Public Museum.

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By Caley Clinton Milwaukee philanthropist Michael Cudahy introduced a new plan Monday for O’Donnell Park that includes a smaller parking structure, a hotel and a 12-story office building. Cudahy indicated the hotel would likely be high-end, said Harold Mester, county ...

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By Joe Lanane

staff writer

Proposals to demolish O’Donnell Park came and went last year. Milwaukee County officials initially praised the suggestion to redevelop the valuable lakefront property, but once budget season came, the focus instead shifted toward $6.6 million repair plans.

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By Joe Lanane Philanthropist Michael Cudahy wants until Feb. 24 to pull together concrete plans to replace O’Donnell Park with a new Milwaukee Public Museum. But Milwaukee County is planning to start $6.6 million in repairs to the structure on ...

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By Joe Lanane The O’Donnell Park garage should be razed and replaced by a new Milwaukee Public Museum and parking structure, according to philanthropist Michael Cudahy. “O’Donnell Park is a piece of garbage, and it’s been trouble ever since it’s ...

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By Justin Kern Special to The Daily Reporter Officials on Monday began determining the extent and cost of fixing the panels on the Milwaukee County Transit Center, one of two structures found by building inspectors to have problems during emergency ...

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