Perhaps more so than any other year in recent memory, 2018 was momentous for the construction industry in Wisconsin.

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Work on the Northwestern Mutual Tower and Commons was substantially complete at the beginning of June, company officials announced on Wednesday.

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Milwaukee resident Jose Garcia’s dream is about to come true.

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Milwaukee officials are making it clear that it’s not enough for developers and contractors to simply meet the various hiring targets that have been attached to projects that receive city money.

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Milwaukee’s growth in real-estate development has made it a premier source of jobs in the construction industry.

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For once, officials at the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District say one of their top projects for the past year can't be found underground. When they take account of their best work in 2016, they are just as likely to point to the top of the Northwestern Mutual Commons building.

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Now that the focus of the Northwestern Mutual Tower and Commons has shifted to landscaping and interior work, officials with the insurance company are looking back on the milestones the $450 million construction project reached in 2016.

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Members of Milwaukee's Common Council were offered a study in contrasts on Tuesday: The construction team working on the Northwestern Mutual Tower and Commons continue to meet the city's resident-hiring and contracting goal for the massive project. Meanwhile, south of Interstate 94, the group behind a much smaller Freshwater Plaza Apartments project is falling short.

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When construction started on the $450 million Northwestern Mutual Tower and Commons project in downtown Milwaukee, it was smiles and handshakes for all involved. But now, with the massive project only about a year away from its scheduled completion date, the lawsuits are flying.

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An Indiana company is alleging in a federal lawsuit that general contractor C.G. Schmidt has stiffed it on thousands of tons of steel and other materials supplied for the Northwestern Mutual Tower and Commons project.

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