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The award-winning developer Milhaus announced it has broken ground on two ground-up buildings at the former Pabst Brewery complex, which are projected to open in 2018. The 274-unit Vim and Vigor apartments will include 7,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space at the corner of Juneau and 10th Street. Working in conjunction with local Milwaukee-based real estate developer WiRED Properties, the Vim and Vigor community is being developed on two separate lots, about a block apart from one another at The Brewery, the mixed-use development that revitalized the former Pabst complex. Following Pabst Brewing Company‘s closure of its Milwaukee...

Commercial Property Associates, RFP Commercial, and Siegel-Gallagher Management announce merger to form full-service commercial real estate firm. Three of Milwaukee’s leading commercial real estate companies have come together to form Wisconsin’s largest, independently owned, full-service commercial real estate brokerage and management firm, changing the landscape of the local real estate industry in Milwaukee with an unmatched level of local expertise. Known as Founders 3, the new commercial real estate firm combines the resources of Commercial Property Associates, Inc., RFP Commercial, Inc., and Siegel-Gallagher Management Co. All three companies have deep local roots with a wealth of experience in the...

The City of Milwaukee Tobacco-Free Alliance announced its support for PrideFest Milwaukee’s inclusion of three nonsmoking areas on the festival grounds Designated nonsmoking areas include the Exercising Pride: PrideFest Health and Wellness section, the Youth Area, and the Children and Family Stage. Festival organizers also request that attendees refrain from smoking in the new PrideFit area that features yoga and dance, along with the History and Stonewall tents. As the demographics of the LGBTQ community change, family friendly spaces are increasingly in demand. At just 6 years old, Jasper Murray-Bentz and his two moms like to attend PrideFest, but...

Over 100 free concerts, movie nights and events are scheduled in Milwaukee County Parks this summer – including the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra at Boerner Botanical Gardens, concerts at Grant Beach and a Thursday night traveling concert series. As well as established concert series such as Chill on the Hill at Humboldt Park and Jazz in the Park at Cathedral Square, entertainment will include a new Traveling Tunes series, which will visit ten parks around the county on Thursday nights. A new concert series at Washington Park this summer will feature a different theme each night, including ‘beer and bass’...

Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele announced that a custom Traveling Beer Garden bicycle design will be revealed on June 7 at the Kletzsch Park Traveling Beer Garden as part of Wisconsin Bike Week. The unique bicycles, designed by Fyxation Bicycle Co., features custom colors to match the Traveling Beer Garden branding, white wall tires inspired by the Sprecher Brewing fire trucks, and even include a custom leather stein holder. Visitors to the Traveling Beer Garden throughout the summer will have a chance to win the one-of-a-kind bikes. “Cycling along the Oak Leaf Trail to one of the Traveling Beer...

Professor and author Richard Florida will be the featured guest in an upcoming “On the Issues with Mike Gousha,” June 8 in the Lubar Center at Marquette University Law School’s Eckstein Hall. In 2002, Florida’s best-selling book, The Rise of the Creative Class, focused on a demographic shift happening around the world — an urban revival sparked by young, creative, tech-savvy professionals. Now, 15 years later, Florida has written a far more sobering book, The New Urban Crisis. It explores a darker side of the urban renaissance, something he calls “winner-take-all urbanism.” Florida sees deepening inequality in our cities,...