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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A Milwaukee Common Council committee gave a favorable recommendation on Tuesday to proposals advancing both Komatsu Mining Corp.'s plans for a waterfront headquarters and a nearby development overseen by Michels Corp.

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The 44-story Couture high-rise along Milwaukee's lakefront is scheduled to break ground in October, the city development director told a committee Tuesday.

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Milwaukee officials are considering requiring that a percentage of the apartments on offer at certain new developments be available at what are deemed affordable rates.

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Milwaukee's commercial building boom is expected to get a little louder, thanks to an investment from the AFL-CIO.

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Inside a fenced construction site on Detroit's east side, heavy machines are digging, shoving and hauling away tons of dirt in preparation for the latest addition to the city's industrial landscape.

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Rocky Marcoux’s position as development commissioner appears to again be rock solid.

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Let’s try this again. For the second time in as many months, a city committee on Tuesday approved the reappointment of Rocky Marcoux as commissioner of the Department of City Development.

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When Rocky Marcoux goes on Tuesday for a second time before a Milwaukee Common Council committee scheduled to reconsider his reappointment as commissioner of the Department of City Development, he will be able to draw on more than a dozen letters of support.

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Changing who's in charge of Milwaukee's Department of City Development while several large projects are in progress could pull the reins back on the city's ongoing construction boom.

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