Real Estate

The county could start construction on a new jail facility as early as 2015, but county leaders still have no plan for what the facility will look like, where it will be, how much it will cost or how they will pay for it.

Milwaukee-based real estate development firm J. Jeffers & Co. recently purchased a 128-year-old Brady Street building for $305,000, according to state records.

The former Milwaukee Paper Box Co. building at 1560-68 W. Pierce St. in Milwaukee was sold recently for $1.375 million, according to state records.

A vacant 0.4-acre site at 200-216 S. Broadway in Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward sold recently for $2 million, according to state records. Chicago Street Holdings LLC purchased the property from Term-Broadway LLC.

Redevelopment of another historic building at the former Pabst brewery complex is expcted to begin this fall.

Brookfield-based real estate development firm 2000 Development Corp. plans to build a 120,000-square-foot, multi-tenant industrial building on an 11-acre site at the northeast corner of Commerce Circle and Watertown Road in the city of Pewaukee.
The firm hopes to break ground on the project this fall or in the spring of 2014, said Brandon Bergman, president of 2000 Development Corp.

The Menominee Indian Tribe is inviting the Forest County Potawatomi Community to partner in its proposed Kenosha casino project. But the Potawatomi tribe made it clear Tuesday that it is not interested in Menominee's offer to participate in the project.

Chicago development firm DeNovo Properties LLC recently purchased a 44,500-square-foot vacant industrial building at 5400 N. Teutonia Ave. from Glendale-based Johnson Controls Inc.

The owners of Bad Genie Rock Lounge at 789 N. Jefferson St. in downtown Milwaukee plan to open Irish Genie in the former Judge’s tavern at 1431 E. North Ave., on Milwaukee’s East Side.

State office building opensA ribbon cutting ceremony was held Tuesday to celebrate the completion of construction for the new...