Andrew Weiland

Andrew is the editor of BizTimes Milwaukee. He joined BizTimes in 2003, serving as managing editor and real estate reporter for 11 years before being promoted to editor in 2015. An award-winning journalist, Weiland is a five-time winner in the Milwaukee Press Club Excellence in Journalism Awards contest and a five-time winner in the Alliance of Area Business Publishers (AABP) Awards contest. BizTimes Milwaukee has won 45 AABP awards for design and journalism during his time as editor. He is also a regular guest on WISN-TV Channel 12's 4 p.m. newscast to discuss the week's most significant business news stories.

Walker’s Point

Mercy Housing Lakefront plans to build a 55-unit affordable senior apartment development in Milwaukee's Walker's Point neighborhood. The five-story building would be built on a vacant lot at the northeast corner of South 1st Street and East Pittsburgh Avenue.

Wisconsin exports up 18% in 2010

As the economic recovery took hold in 2010, especially for manufacturers, Wisconsin's exports soared.


The state Department of Commerce reported that the state's exports increased 18.28 percent to $19.78 in 2010.

Mandel Group asked to clean up another mess

Prior to the Great Recession, the downtown Milwaukee condo market was booming. New condo towers shot up along the lakefront and several old warehouses were transformed to residential use.

The Enclave

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently approved a guarantee for a $20 million loan...

Wisconsin sales tax ranks low

Wisconsin has a reputation for being a high-tax state. Gov. Scott Walker and Republicans in the state Legislation have recently pushed through legislation to provide tax relief for businesses.

Walker’s target – 2.98 million jobs

The state Department of Workforce Development recently reported that Wisconsin had 2,731,000 nonfarm jobs in December, on a seasonally adjusted basis.

Several potential Kenosha Highway 50 corridor retail sites in play


In recent years, urban sprawl from the Chicago area has crept north of the state line into Kenosha County. After sluggish growth in the '70s and '80s Kenosha County's population increased by 29 percent from 128,181 in 1990 to an estimated 165,382 in 2009. At the same time, Wispark LLC attracted dozens of firms to its LakeView Corporate Park in Pleasant Prairie, and retail development flourished along Highway 50, which has become a major retail corridor in Kenosha County.

Commercial Realtors form boutique brokerage

In early 2010, when the commercial real estate market was still deep in the post Great Recession doldrums, two Milwaukee area commercial Realtors left their jobs at two of the largest commercial real estate firms in the region to start their own boutique commercial real estate brokerage in the Village of Lannon in northern Waukesha County.

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Downtown Marriott

The Milwaukee Common Council recently voted in favor of an appeal by development firm Jackson Street Management LLC of an Historic Preservation Commission ruling requiring a set-back for the upper floors of Marriott hotel that the firm plans to build southwest of Wisconsin Avenue and Milwaukee Street.

Quad prints Super Bowl programs

Sussex-based Quad/Graphics Inc.'s Lomira plant printed the programs for the Super Bowl in Dallas on Sunday, in which the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers will square off.

Housing market remains a major drag

The housing market in southeastern Wisconsin – and in the entire United States – still has a long way to go before it digs out of its hole.

Back to building


The southeastern Wisconsin commercial real estate market still faces significant headwinds. The metro area's office space vacancy rate is at about 22 percent, and the class B office space vacancy rate is close to 25 percent.

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