The Milwaukee County Transportation, Public Works and Transit committee approved a resolution Wednesday supporting Milwaukee’s Gateway Aerotropolis collaborative planning efforts. The 4-2 vote brings the measure before the entire County Board at its Sept. 30 meeting. If approved, Milwaukee County ...

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By Marie Rohde Oak Creek is cautiously targeting the former Delphi Automotive Systems property for redevelopment into a new City Hall, library and fire station. By most accounts, the city needs the new buildings and has the money to pay ...

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Wisconsin Constructors LLC has submitted the low bid for Interstate 94 work between College and Howard avenues in Milwaukee west of General Mitchell International Airport. State Highway Project, Milwaukee County Wisconsin Constructors, which lists the same address as Lunda Construction ...

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By Burl Gilyard Dolan Media Newswires MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Opus North Corp. has sold an Oak Creek industrial property for $8.7 million. Tom Shaver, president and CEO of Opus North, said that the deal closed at the end of June. ...

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OSHA reports • Havenwood Homes Inc., Wind Lake, must pay a $600 fall-protection citation because the period to contest the violation has ended. The company was issued the citation April 13 during a nonresidential building job at S76 W17587 Janesville ...

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By Sean Ryan Milwaukee is negotiating from a position of strength after the state forced Waukesha to reveal the costs of buying water from other communities. Waukesha officials plan to buy Lake Michigan water from Milwaukee, Oak Creek or Racine, ...

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By Sean Ryan

staff writer

The debate over whether Oak Creek should take Earl Giefer’s farm was really about how much authority we the people give our government in the name of the greater good.

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By Sean Ryan The team trying to keep Earl Giefer on his Oak Creek farm is worried he will end up in the same situation as a Muskego contractor facing $18,000 in fines for zoning violations. The Oak Creek resolution ...

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By Sean Ryan Oak Creek officials on Tuesday dropped plans to acquire Earl Giefer’s farm to support new development after the plan was criticized as abusing the Wisconsin eminent domain law. The city’s Common Council unanimously voted to drop the ...

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