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A crowd gathers to watch as The Hop arrives in Milwaukee on a flatbed truck on Monday.
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Clybourn, Milwaukee intersection to close for streetcar work
Milwaukee officials announced on Wednesday that work on the city’s streetcar project would cause both the intersection of Clybourn and Milwaukee streets and a nearby interstate ramp to be closed starting early next week.
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Read More »Streetcar track work on St. Paul Avenue bridge begins Tuesday
Milwaukee streetcar construction crews are expected to finish track work over the St. Paul Avenue bridge early next week.
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Read More »Slew of big projects kept crews busy in 2017
Contractors were certainly busy in 2017. Here are some of themost notable projects that either wrapped up, made significant strides or got underway in the past 12 months.
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Read More »90 percent of Milwaukee streetcar tracks completed
Ninety percent of the Milwaukee streetcar tracks have been put in place, thanks in part to favorable weather conditions in recent months, say officials involved with the 2.5-mile construction project.
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Read More »Kiewit Corp. moving new headquarters to downtown Omaha
A construction and engineering company is moving its new headquarters to downtown Omaha.
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Read More »Transit-workers union, streetcar operator strike labor-peace deal
Even as lawmakers seek to ban government-mandated labor-peace agreements, the operator picked for Milwaukee’s new streetcar has reached just such an agreement with a local transit-workers union. The private agreement is meant to ensure that workers running the new $124 ...
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Read More »Barrett challenger promises no more streetcar extensions ‘whatsoever’
In announcing his plans to challenge Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett in 2020, Tony Zielinski slammed the city's new streetcar line and vowed the system would not be extended under his watch.
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Read More »Milwaukee to soon be seeking marketing consultant for streetcar line
Milwaukee officials will soon be seeking a firm to help market its new streetcar line. In a memo to city officials, Department of Public Works commissioner Ghassan Korban noted his department intends to issue a request for proposals on Tuesday ...
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