Development in the Park East corridor in downtown Milwaukee has been slow, but a ribbon cutting ceremony will be held Thursday for the first building to be built in the corridor on a property sold by local government. The ceremony will mark the completion of construction for The Flatiron, a six-story building with 38 condominiums and 2,860-square feet of retail space.

Milwaukee-based Eppstein Uhen Architects has been hired by Uline Inc. to design the company's new corporate headquarters and a distribution center, which will be built in Pleasant Prairie.

New home construction last year in the U.S. was the lowest in 27 years, according to a recent report from the Commerce Department.

First vice president-Industrial Properties Group, CB Richard Ellis

Towne Investments, the trade name under which Milwaukee-based Zilber Ltd. markets its commercial investment portfolio, announced that it has purchased 20.24 acres of industrial land in the Business Park of Kenosha.

Whitney Gould, the former Milwaukee Journal Sentinel architecture critic who retired from the newspaper recently, has been appointed to the City of Milwaukee's Plan Commission by Mayor Tom Barrett.

Milwaukee-based Mandel Group Inc. recently received the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Wisconsin's 2007 Corporation of the Year Award.

Ribbon cutting ceremony for The Flatiron building in the Park East corridor, Thursday, Jan. 24, 10 a.m.

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The sale of its Metavante Technologies Inc. subsidiary in the fourth quarter put a $525 million bandage on Marshall & Ilsley Corp.'s fourth quarter, momentarily shielding the Milwaukee-based bank's money-losing exposures to the collapsing housing market.