LOCAL HOMEOWNERS WARNED NOT TO FALL FOR "OFFICIAL-LOOKING" DEED PROCESSING SCHEMES

 Area homeowners are being targeted this summer by at least two companies offering to send copies of "grant deeds" for an $86 fee.
 

Wisconsin State Journal

Today feels like a gold medal winning day. The Olympics have been a lot of fun to watch. For a week at least I had a daughter that wanted to be a Olympic sand volleyball player.

Enjoy the great weather and have a great week!

Joe  

What can be done to one of the busiest traffic corridors in Madison to make it safer for motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians?

-Wisconsin State Journal

A long-vacant former school building in Brodhead may re-open as an apartment building if financing doors keep opening for a Madison developer's plans.

-Wisconsin State Journal

Iron gate apartment homes in Sun Prairie.

-Wisconsin State Journal

With all city land use approvals secured, the Frautschi family is making final moves to start the $11.6 million redevelopment of the historic 100 block of State Street, with interior demolition work expected to start this fall.

-Wisconsin State Journal

Wisconsin has the 13th highest total mortgage closing costs in the nation, according to a new Bankrate.com survey released today.

-Wisconsin State Journal

CARPC DRAMA CONTINUES

The rift between Windsor Chairman Bob Wipperfurth and the county's towns association executives continues to grow.

-DeForest Times

PROPERTY TRAX: SHOUTLET ADDS NEW OFFICE SPACE, MORE THAN DOUBLING ITS FOOTPRINT, AFTER $15 MILLION CAPITAL INFUSION IN JUNE

Fresh off a $15 million investment that will bankroll rapid company growth over the next several months, Madison-based Shoutlet has signed its first new leases for additional office space. 

-Wisconsin State Journal

BUSINESSES FACE TAX TO COVER UNEMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS

By next month, some 81,000 Wisconsin businesses will have to pay tens of millions of dollars in higher jobless insurance taxes to cover interest on a more than $900 million federal loan.

-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 

PLAN FOR THE CORNERS GETS INITIAL APPROVAL

A plan for the Town of Brookfield to provide financing help for The Corners, a proposed retail, office and apartment development anchored by a Von Maur department store, has received an initial approval. 

-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

SHOPPING FOR AN APARTMENT? DEVELOPMENT PLANNED AT GRAND AVENUE

The continued strong demand for downtown Milwaukee apartments is bringing a $2.5 million development to the Grand Avenue mall's Plankinton Building.

-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

PEWAUKEE MANUFACTURERS PLAN $5 MILLION BUILDING

A group of businesses, including one that makes treadmills for pro sports teams, is moving closer to developing a $5 million building after receiving the latest round of city approvals Monday night from the Pewaukee Common Council. 

-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

BAY WORKING OUT TAX INCREMENTAL FINANCING DETAILS FOR MANDEL LUXURY APARTMENTS

Whitefish Bay officials are working with developer Mandel Group and financial advisory firm Ehlers Investment Partners to hash out details of a tax incremental district for the developer's proposed $28-30 million luxury apartment complex.

-Whitefish Bay Now

ZILBER INITIATIVE MAKES PROGRESS REHABBING NEIGHBORHOODS | 4 YEARS IN, PROGRAM HAS PAID DIVIDENDS

The Zilber Neighborhood Initiative, now in its fourth year of a 10-year commitment to improve low-income areas in Milwaukee, has invested $16.4 million of its $50 million pledge, and has used that money to attract $22 million more from other sources, a foundation official said.

-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

PABST OFFICE TO TIE IN WITH HOTEL

A 60,000-square-foot office building, which Gorman & Co. is developing at downtown Milwaukee's former Pabst brewery, could have a marketing connection to the extended-stay hotel Gorman is building next door.

-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Uline Inc., which in 2010 moved its corporate headquarters from Illinois to a massive new corporate campus in Pleasant Prairie, is now planning a major expansion project of that campus.

-Milwaukee Business News

NAI MLG Commercial, one of the largest commercial real estate brokerage firms in the Milwaukee area, announced today that it will move its corporate headquarters from Brookfield to downtown Milwaukee.

-Milwaukee Business News

A developer proposing a housing unit and retail space at the former Leevers Foods site in downtown Menomonie said the goal is to attract working professional people to the site.

-Milwaukee Business News