Downtown Milwaukee could soon be home to a Kohl’s department store. The Menomonee Falls-based company is rumored to be considering a small-format store in the HUB640 building, which previously housed a two-story Boston Sto…
As the move-in dates for the new housing units at the former Wheatley Elementary School (aka 20th Street School), 2442 N. 20th St., approach, I stopped over to take a peek at the progress. Wheatley School was built in 1902 – …
A planned renovation at Ripon Public Library has continued to move forward this summer as a design has been selected and the library’s Board of Trustees will begin planning a fundraising campaign for the update. The proposed renovations aim to update the children’s area, provide a space for t…
Milwaukee's first building created with an unusual construction method, using high-grade timber instead of steel for its frame, will be completed next spring. Timber Lofts, a 60-unit apartment building with ground-floor retail space, is under constru…
City's first mass timber project, in Walker's Point, chosen best new wood apartment building. The best new wood apartment building in the country is in Milwaukee. So says the WoodWorks �…
In 1868, construction of what today is the oldest remaining stone church in Milwaukee was completed. The Gothic Revival treasure, at 833 W. Wisconsin Ave. – formerly West Grand Avenue – was the ecclesiastical home to St. James Episcopal Church.
The development will utilize low-income housing and historic tax credits. The adaptive-reuse of the former Phillis Wheatley Elementary School along with the construction of a new building will bring 82 mixed-income homes to Milwaukee. Hunt Capital Partners and developer Royal Capital Gr…
Like most American cities, Milwaukee was once a hive of department store activity. Many of us remember Gimbels and Schusters, maybe even T.A. Chapman’s, though few of us know Espenhain’s other than as a name from Brew City history. Then there were the smaller ones like Goldmann’s and Miller…
Bon-Ton was relegated to the dust bin of corporate history in 2018, but the department store chain left behind a lot of real estate. While shopping mall owners work to repurpose the windowless boxes once inhabited by departmen…
Milwaukee developer Mandel Group Inc. was selected to buy and develop new apartments on the School Sisters of Notre Dame’s 30-acre Elm Grove campus. The School Sisters plan to leave the W…
ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — The Forest City invests in its library, but the new project will do more than house books. Rockford aldermen voted on details of a TIF agreement with the project’s builder. We show you what that means. “Our riverfront is definitely something that developers want acces…
By Bobby Tanzilo St. James Episcopal Church, 833 W. Wisconsin Ave., has been a fixture on West Wisconsin Avenue for more than 150 years now, and thanks to a new project that's due for completion soon, the 1868 …
Property taxes proposed to pay for potential $10.5 million project The Herald News Joliet Public Library representatives brought virtual reality goggles to give City Council members a look into the future of what the downtown library would be …
WAUKESHA, WI — The Friends of Retzer Nature Center's Annual Earth Week Celebration Finale concludes week-long Earth-themed activities on Saturday, April 28, including the grand opening of their new Environmental Learning Center.
Tippecanoe Library Grand Reopening WHEN Saturday, December 12, 2015 | 10 AM - 1 PM Ribbon-cutting with Mayor Tom Barrett, Alderman Terry Witkowski and Library Director Paula Kiely begins at 10 AM. Library open until 5 PM. FEATURING Live music from…
Milwaukee, WI - The Milwaukee General Mitchell International Airport has been a long term client of Engberg Anderson. Our most recent project on the aviation campus however was the most challenging and rewarding. Being one of the busiest parts of the airport, the
Milwaukee Public Library's Tippecanoe Library Joined by Milwaukee Public Library's Deputy Director of Public Services Joan Johnson and District Alderman Terry Witkowski, Mayor Tom Barrett toured the Tippecanoe library construction site today. With the renovation underway…