Corrinne Hess

Ruth and Brittany could soon have a new home. Milwaukee County has issued a request for proposal for a new $10-$15 million African Elephant exhibit at the Milwaukee County Zoo, after some questions have been raised about the environment the animals are being kept in.

San Diego-based investor MVP REIT Inc. has purchased a downtown parking lot at 1120 N. Old World 3rd Street for $4.1 million.

Menomonee Falls developers Herb and Peter Gross have purchased 68-acres of land in the Village of Merton to develop a 55-single family home subdivision at the northwest corner of Highway VV and Lake Five Road.

Novozymes Bioag, Inc. , a Milwaukee-based storage company, will expand its facility by 30,700-square-feet at its current location at 4801 Woolworth Ave.

The Milwaukee Common Council’s Zoning, Neighborhoods and Development Committee threw a wrench in the Milwaukee Bucks’ vision for a Live Plaza along North Fourth Street Tuesday by voting to keep the street as part of the city’s right-of-way.

Nomad World Pub owner and Lowlands Group co-founder, Mike Eitel has pulled out of a project at the former Pabst brewery complex in downtown Milwaukee, where Pabst Brewing Co. plans to open a small brewery and tasting room in the former First German Methodist Church building. Eitel planned to operate a restaurant and bar in the building.

Milwaukee-based Joseph Property Development, LLC is proposing a six-story mixed-use building at the former Qdoba restaurant at the corner of North Prospect Avenue and East Ivanhoe Place.

Meijer Inc., has purchased 30.7 acres in West Bend for $6.1 million to build a store in West Bend.

After an eight year residential building hiatus, the Sussex Plan Commission will review plans Thursday for the community’s third subdivision this year.