Real Estate

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

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.

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.

First vice president-Industrial Properties Group, CB Richard Ellis

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

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.

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.

Downtown Milwaukee buildings that are on the market include: the Milwaukee Center at 111 E. Kilbourn Ave., the 789 N. Water St. building, the Associated Bank building at 401 E. Kilbourn Ave., the Wells Building at 324 E. Wisconsin Ave. and the Clark Building at 633 W. Wisconsin Ave.

Professional Placement Services LLC recently purchased the 16,016-square-foot building at 272 N. 12th St. in Milwaukee's Menomonee River Valley, where it plans to move from its current location in the Historic Third Ward at 316 N. Milwaukee St.

vice president, Grubb & Ellis|Apex Commercial