Barrett picks Crump to succeed Marcoux as Milwaukee development chief
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett has appointed Lafayette Crump to replace the retiring city development chief Rocky Marcoux.
Marcoux retiring after 16 years overseeing Milwaukee’s development efforts
Richard "Rocky" Marcoux, longest-serving city development commissioner in Milwaukee history, is retiring — marking a career that featured several large projects, and some missed opportunities.
City to pursue other options if Couture doesn’t move ahead by June
Milwaukee officials told a committee on Wednesday that they remain confident the delayed Couture high-rise will ultimately be built — but that they may also have to pursue other options for the completion of a branch of the city's streetcar line that now depends on the construction of the Couture.
With clock ticking on streetcar extension, Milwaukee committee puts plans on hold
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.
City advances financing for $285M Komatsu project, Michels Corp.’s River 1
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.
Lakefront Couture high-rise could break ground in October
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.
Milwaukee leaders weigh affordable-housing requirements on certain apartment projects
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.
AFL-CIO housing trust targets Milwaukee for investment in multifamily projects
Milwaukee's commercial building boom is expected to get a little louder, thanks to an investment from the AFL-CIO.
Detroit luring manufacturers to industrial park, vacant land
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.
Marcoux survives as Milwaukee development director
Rocky Marcoux’s position as development commissioner appears to again be rock solid.
Marcoux, once again, receives nod as development commissioner
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.
Developers, industry groups rally behind Marcoux reappointment
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.
Today’s News
- Milwaukee Mayor’s $1.9B budget proposal has infrastructure boost
- As employers face labor shortages, Biden administration rolls out playbook for training workers
- Wisconsin Senate committee votes against confirmation for four DNR policy board appointees
- October proclaimed Architecture Awareness Month in Wisconsin
- Pre-Bid Meetings – Week of October 2, 2023
- Corn mill owners plead to federal charges in fatal explosion, will pay $11.25 million
- BUILDING BLOCKS: Second phase of Lower Yahara River Trail construction
- Sky-high mortgage rates leave homes unaffordable for more buyers, sending new home sales tumbling
- Forecast: Economic challenges ahead as rates rise and labor shortages remain
- CBRE opens office on 18th floor of Milwaukee BMO Tower
- Former inmate able to rebuild life through work in construction trades
- Zignego to lead $60M I-894 improvement project
Project Profiles
- First prefabricated bridge in US installed in Eau Claire County
- Illinois developer worked with Wisconsin contractor to build 258-unit Wauwatosa apartment complex
- VJS Construction raises the roof for Bruce Guadalupe Community School expansion project
- Microgrid pilot project will store energy for village affected by outages
- Dane County sees uptick in highway work zone crashes, on track to exceed last year
- The Hop streetcar will debut newest service route in fall with limited service
- FPC Live slims venue proposal to 1 downtown building
- Children’s Hospital urgent care center in Milwaukee gets first round of city approval
- With Sonag Construction shut down, feds move to block indicted owner from collecting leftover assets
- Four contractors selected to build border wall prototypes
- UW-Milwaukee’s Greenstreet shaping minds (and the city)
- Turning the Corner(s) (PHOTO SLIDESHOW)