Real Estate

The Milwaukee office of The Opus Group announced that it is part of a collaboration with Harrison Street Real Estate Capital LLC, a Chicago-based real estate investment management firm, to develop and construct Varsity Quarters, a new student housing development adjacent to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The project is a joint-venture partnership.

July sales of homes in the metropolitan Milwaukee market increased 18.7 percent compared with the same month a year ago, according to the latest report by the Greater Milwaukee Association of Realtors (GMAR).

Milwaukee-based multi-family housing developer Mandel Group plans to build a two-building, 60-unit luxury apartment development at Sendik’s Towne Centre, located southwest of Capitol Drive and Brookfield Road in Brookfield.

Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin Inc. announced negotiations to relocate its headquarters to Greendale at a site currently owned by a subsidiary company of Reader's Digest Association Inc.

A groundbreaking ceremony was held Thursday to celebrate the start of construction for a new Belgium Village Hall and the Grand Duke Henri Plaza, both part of the New Luxembourg development in Belgium, in northern Ozaukee County.

The Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority (WHEDA) announced it is designating a new program – the Transform Milwaukee Loan Guarantee Program (TMG) – to provide incentives to lenders to make small business loans in the Transform Milwaukee area, which focuses on the 30th Street Industrial Corridor, Menomonee Valley, Port of Milwaukee and the Aerotropolis.

BizTimes Milwaukee recently took a tour of the Brewhouse Inn & Suites, the new 90-room hotel that opened recently at 1215 N. 10th St. in the former Pabst brewery complex in downtown Milwaukee.

Pita Pit, a fast food franchise based on the tagline “Fresh Thinking, Healthy Eating,” will make its debut in Milwaukee this September as 26-year-old entrepreneur Andrew Culp opens the first restaurant location on the city’s east side.

A 1 million-square-foot distribution center is planned for a site along I-94 and south of Burlington Road (County Highway S) in Kenosha for Seattle-based Amazon.com Inc., according to commercial real estate industry sources.

Boerke CompanyMeijer Stores Limited Partnership purchased a 37,440-square-foot industrial building on a 2.3-acre site at 3000 N. 112th St.,...