By Marie Rohde A developer and a downtown Milwaukee alderman are at odds over a proposed hotel that would require the demolition of several office buildings in a historic district. Alderman Robert Bauman said MBI Properties LLC, the owner of ...

Tagged with: Compass Properties historic buildings Milwaukee Street Robert Bauman Wisconsin Avenue

By Scott Carlson Special to The Daily Reporter Milwaukee is on track with the remediation of an industrial site for a Spanish train manufacturer despite threats from gubernatorial candidates that they would kill the state’s high-speed rail project. The Redevelopment ...

Tagged with: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ARRA high-speed rail Jeff Fleming jobs Mark Neumann Milwaukee Rail Redevelopment Authority of the City of Milwaukee Robert Bauman Scott Walker stimulus Talgo Tower Automotive train

By Sean Ryan Public policy and public opinion are going head to head over a disputed zoning law in an east side Milwaukee neighborhood. City aldermen are in the middle of the debate, weighing property owners’ complaints against a law ...

Tagged with: east side historic Michael Murphy Milwaukee Neighborhoods and Development Committee renovation Robert Bauman zoning

By Sean Ryan A possible widening of 27th Street in Milwaukee to promote more development could cut into the property line of a building under renovation. The city is studying a proposal to more than double the width of 27th ...

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Milwaukee Alderman Robert Bauman has joined the call to have a high-speed rail station built in Wauwatosa, rather than in Brookfield. The planned high-speed passenger rail route between Madison and Milwaukee has stations planned in Milwaukee, Brookfield, Oconomowoc, Watertown and ...

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By Sean Ryan The prospect of new office construction without new tenants in downtown Milwaukee is pressuring developers sitting on vacant space. Sheldon Oppermann, vice president of Compass Properties LLC, Madison, is trying to fill 100,000 square feet of empty ...

Tagged with: Compass Properties Madison Robert Bauman

Dustin Block [email protected] Wauwatosa’s historic Eschweiler Buildings would be converted into a boutique hotel and restaurant as part of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s plans for a new engineering campus. But plans to restore the buildings, designed in the early 1900s ...

Tagged with: Economic and Community Development Committee Nancy Welch Patrick Curley Robert Bauman Tom Barrett

Sean Ryan [email protected] Milwaukee officials this week amplified their call for the state to spend more money on local roads and less on highway expansion projects. But pushing for the redirection of state money away from state and interstate highway ...

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