Real Estate

John "Johnny V" Vassallo withdrew his proposal to construct a 20-story, 340-unit apartment tower southwest of West Bluemound and North Mayfair roads in Wauwatosa, about 90 minutes before city leaders were to consider denying it at a Common Council meeting.

A pair of local developers are planning to turn the old Western Building Products Inc. distribution facility in Wauwatosa into a 475-unit apartment community.

The robust market for Milwaukee-area home sales continued into the new year, according to the latest report from the Greater Milwaukee Association of Realtors.

The opening of a new jazz café this month will mean the newly renovated building done by Bader Philanthropies Inc. will be fully up and running.

Pleasant Prairie officials have tapped Milwaukee-based F Street Development Group to explore developing a mixed-use project as part of the community's sprawling Village Green Center neighborhood.

The Sentinel Building in downtown Milwaukee has again changed hands, with the recent sale to a local investors group for $2.1 million.

Milwaukee-based Wisconsin Community Services recently purchased Employ Milwaukee’s headquarters, where it is a tenant, for just under $3.2 million.

The developer of the Couture residential tower planned near the lakefront in downtown Milwaukee is promising to reimburse the city any federal grant money it might lose due to the late completion of the streetcar line that would run through the project site.

In acquiring another manufacturing facility in Waukesha, Miro Manufacturing Inc. will be expanding its metal cutting and fabrication operations.

A Kansas investment firm recently acquired four Milwaukee-area industrial buildings for $20.45 million as part of a $67.5 million, six-property industrial portfolio deal.