The building, originally The Blue and Reuss Federal Plaza, was built to house various government offices and private tenants but, over time, came to be about 75% vacant. The property was bought in 2017 for $19.5 million by Time Equities, which quickly move forward with plans to turn it into a class-A office and retail building.

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A bill being circulated in the state Legislature would set aside $40 million to replace lead service lines, a proposal that was once in the state budget but later stripped out.

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A Milwaukee committee voted on Tuesday both to pause plans to extend the city's streetcar and study proposed routes into north- and south-side neighborhoods, a decision that threatens to strain an already tight construction schedule calling for service to be added near the site of the Democratic National Convention by July 2020.

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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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The first phase of the project is to entail the construction of a tower with as many as 70 condominium units. The structure would stand near the Milwaukee River and have boat slips and boathouses. Two subsequent phases of the project could bring the unit count at the site as high as 250.

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A new report finds that construction costs increased at a slightly faster pace in Milwaukee than in five other big U.S. cities last year.

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A blast of polar air enveloped much of the Midwest on Wednesday, cracking train rails, breaking water pipes and straining electrical systems. But in Wisconsin’s two largest cities, city officials were saying the cold snap hadn’t caused as much damage to infrastructure as had the previous deep freeze five years ago.

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Former President Barack Obama's campaign stop in Wisconsin on Friday will be at a Milwaukee high school.

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Milwaukee leaders hope economic development will be spurred by a new commercial center built at the site of a bank that was burned down two years ago during unrest over the fatal police shooting of a black man.

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Elizabeth Brown, a lifelong Milwaukee resident, currently lives in the Amani neighborhood with four of her nine children in a three-bedroom house she rents for $775 a month. She said it's too much, given the rundown condition of the property and the fact that she doesn't have a paid job.

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