A groundbreaking ceremony was held Tuesday for a $12.6 million building project at Marquette University High School. The cornerstone of the building project is the student chapel at its threshold and a new two-story addition on the site of the former Jesuit residence. The project includes the student chapel, a new fine arts wing, two new physics classrooms and a physics lab, an Advanced Placement Biology classroom, an improved athletic facility, administrative offices and faculty meeting rooms. The building project is the result of the "Continue the Mission" campaign that has raised over $15 million to date. Founded in 1857, Marquette University High School moved to its present location in the Merrill Park neighborhood in Milwaukee in 1925.
Mike Mervis, the assistant to Zilber Ltd. founder Joseph Zilber, and Mary Ellen McCormack-Mervis recently donated a garden, called the Mervis/McCormack Brady Street Garden, to the City of Milwaukee. The garden was created on a formerly vacant lot at Holton, Water and Brady streets. It was designed by landscape architect Nancy Benninghouse of Firefly Garden Designs in Wauwatosa. The garden is dedicated to the memory of the Mervis’ parents, Francis and Christina McCormack and Jack and Harriett Mervis. "As long time members of the Brady Street Area Association, we have often looked at this underutilized piece of land in our city’s matrix and felt that we should do something to add to the enjoyment of our neighbors and fellow citizens," Mike and Mary Ellen said in a joint statement.
Mid-America Real Estate-Wisconsin was been awarded exclusive leasing representation for the Shoppes of Wyndham Village in Franklin, The Woodlands Market in Menomonee Falls and has been awarded exclusive leasing and management of the Village Square of Delafield. The Shoppes of Wyndham Village will be a 250,000-square-foot shopping center that will be built by Franklin-based Mark Carstensen Construction and Development Companies at the southeast corner of Highway 100 and Drexel Avenue. It will be anchored by a 61,000-square-foot Sendik’s Fine Foods grocery store and a 127,000-square-foot Target store. Village Square of Delafield is a 130,000-square-foot commercial development that is under construction at the southwest corner of Highway 16 and Highway 83. It will include a 55,000-square-foot Pick ‘n Save grocery store (expected to open in August). Additional tenants will include: Starbucks, U.S. Cellular, Great Clips, ISB Bank and Papa Murphy’s. The Woodlands Market is a 20,000-square-foot retail development by Weas Development that will be anchored by a Camille’s Sidewalk Café and a Maritime Savings Bank branch.
