By Marie Rohde Milwaukee has the legal right to build a $600,000 wind turbine on land adjacent to the offices of the Port of Milwaukee but could face trouble if the project goes up on a different nearby site. Milwaukee ...

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By Marie Rohde A Milwaukee law favoring city-based contractors is among the targets of state and national construction associations trying to ban local preference ordinances. “If the idea catches on and spreads, you’ll have islands where only a few contractors ...

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By James Briggs In the final hours before Tuesday‘s midterm elections, Wisconsin Republicans had all but scheduled a group Lambeau Leap to celebrate their not-yet-attained takeover of the state Legislature and governor’s office. State Rep. Gary Tauchen, R-Bonduel, during a ...

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By Marie Rohde HKS Holdings LLC plans to build a 70-unit apartment building with 9,000-square-feet of ground floor retail space on the southeast corner of South Kinnickinnic Avenue and East Conway Street in Bay View, a neighborhood south of downtown ...

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By Sean Ryan Neighborhood support for construction of an Alterra Coffee Roasters Inc. bakery was enough to persuade Milwaukee aldermen Tuesday to back the project. The Milwaukee-based company is planning an estimated $4 million renovation project to build a bakery ...

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By Sean Ryan A small, solar electric system can run a homeowner around $26,000. Public grants can cover about $10,000 of the construction cost, but homeowners are on the hook for the rest because banks don’t lend money to build ...

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By Sean Ryan A Milwaukee alderman wants the city to reject seven redevelopment proposals for a vacant lot in Bay View. That includes a $39.5 million development plan submitted by the Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee, which a ...

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Lake Geneva businessman says he will run for lieutenant governor. Republican Ben Collins says he has founded a defense technology company called Aptus Technologies, Inc., in Lake Geneva. He says he served three tours in ...

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By Sean Ryan [email protected] Citywide Development LLC is the first private developer in Bay View to test a local alderman’s demand for green construction. Tony Zielinski, the alderman representing Milwaukee’s Bay View neighborhood, refuses to support project plans unless they ...

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