The long-planned $420 million expansion of Milwaukee's downtown convention center is moving ahead again after officials approved a plan allowing money to be borrowed for the project once markets recover following the COVID-19 outbreak.

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Wisconsin Center District officials are weighing their option for advancing a $400 million expansion of their organization's downtown Milwaukee event center in April, amid fears that COVID-19 could derail the project.

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The Wisconsin Center District announced this week that it has picked five subcontractors for preconstruction work on a long-planned $300 million expansion of the downtown Milwaukee convention center.

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The Wisconsin Center District board has picked the contractors Gilbane Construction and C.D. Smith to manage a $300 million overhaul of the downtown Milwaukee convention center.

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Eppstein Uhen Architects will join forces with a firm from Atlanta to design a planned $300 million expansion of downtown Milwaukee's Wisconsin Center.

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The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts released plans on Friday for a wide-ranging overhaul that should put its building complex in downtown Milwaukee in a good position for the next half-century.

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Consultants are saying it will take between $247 million and $277 million to expand Milwaukee’s convention center, up from a previous estimate of $225 million to $275 million.

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The new chief executive of the Wisconsin Center District says he would love to have a hand in expanding downtown Milwaukee's convention center, though he's not ready to say for certain the project is needed.

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Work on the Bucks arena and related projects is chugging along, with the structural steel nearly finished on the arena and a nearby parking garage "substantially complete."

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Wisconsin Center District officials announced Friday that they plan to take the next couple of months to consider competing proposals for the development of a 2-acre site lying near the intersection of North 4th Street and Wisconsin Avenue in Milwaukee.

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