Real Estate

A groundbreaking ceremony was held today to celebrate the start of construction of United Natural Foods Inc.’s new 425,000 square foot distribution and warehouse facility in Sturtevant. The facility will serve the Midwest region and is expected to create 220 new, full-time jobs.

Wauwatosa-based commercial real estate development firm Irgens has a contract to purchase the 66-acre Ruby Farm site west of Calhoun Road between Bluemound Road and I-94 in Brookfield, said chief executive officer, president and manager Mark Irgens. He declined to disclose the sale price.

The Potawatomi Business Development Corporation (PBDC), the economic diversification arm of the Forest County Potawatomi (FCP), announced Tuesday that Southeast Wisconsin’s first wholesale, Tier III, carrier neutral data center is now operational.

Real estate development firm Irgens plans to move its corporate headquarters from Wauwatosa to the 17-story, 357,000-square-foot office building that it plans to build at 833 E. Michigan St. in downtown Milwaukee. The firm also released a video this week to show what the proposed building will look like.

A 128-room extended stay hotel is planned for the Innovation Campus development in Wauwatosa.

S.C. Johnson & Son Inc. today unveiled “Usonia: Frank Lloyd Wright's Vision Of The American Home,” a new, free public exhibit at the S.C. Johnson Gallery on the company’s Racine headquarters campus.

A joint venture of Milwaukee-based Dixon Development LLC and Madison-based Hovde Properties recently purchased a 106-year-old, seven-story warehouse at 408-38 W. Florida St. in Milwaukee’s Walker’s Point neighborhood for $3.2 million, according to real estate transaction records filed with the state Department of Revenue.

Milwaukee Brewers leftfielder Ryan Braun has purchased a luxury condominium in the Kilbourn Tower building in downtown Milwaukee, according to real estate transaction records filed with the state Department of Revenue.

Developer Robert Joseph, the owner of Joseph Property Development LLC, plans to build a four-story building with 39 market rate apartments and 6,000 square feet of retail space at the former Pizza Man restaurant site northeast of North Avenue and Oakland Avenue on Milwaukee’s East Side.

Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Meijer Inc. plans to build a 192,940-square-foot store and a 2,509-square-foot gas station on a 29-acre site southeast of Sunset Drive and Tenny Avenue in Waukesha.