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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The Wisconsin Center District is preparing to issue $203 million worth of bonds in early June to fulfill its commitment to partly finance the construction of a new arena for the Bucks.

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Milwaukee Bucks officials are two steps closer to including a “live block” in their plans for a new arena in downtown Milwaukee.

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In announcing a 30-year lease between the Milwaukee Bucks and the future owner of a new downtown arena, the team said it planned to start construction June 18.

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