Real Estate

The 508-room Wyndham Milwaukee Airport Hotel & Convention Center will close, likely in late December, according to a notification sent today by Fairfax, Va.-based Crescent Hotels & Resorts to the state Department of Workforce Development.

Milwaukee-based Plunkett Raysich Architects LLP announced that it has formed a strategic partnership with Sarasota, Fla.-based Carlson Studio Architecture.

The 10th annual BizTimes Milwaukee Real Estate and Development Conference will be held on Thursday, Nov. 1, from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. at the Potawatomi Bingo Casino in Milwaukee.

Atmosphere Engineering Co., an industrial flow measurement system manufacturer, is moving its headquarters from Greenfield to a much larger building in Milwaukee.

Gaco Western, a waterproofing and insulation product manufacturer, will begin construction this week on a $6.5 million, 85,000-square-foot expansion at its Waukesha facility.

Based on an examination of the latest real estate market data, the metro Milwaukee area is arguably one of the strongest industrial markets in the nation.

Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Meijer Inc., which plans to build several big-box stores in southeastern Wisconsin, has acquired the Supervalu Midwest Distribution Facility in Pleasant Prairie, village officials announced today.

Milwaukee’s commercial real estate professionals are becoming increasingly frustrated by the lack of progress in the redevelopment of the Park East Corridor, according to a new BizTimes survey of members of the Commercial Association of Realtors Wisconsin (CARW).

Today is the final day to register for the BizTimes Commercial Real Estate & Development Conference, which will take place Thursday, Nov. 1, from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. at the Potawatomi Bingo Casino in Milwaukee.

Real estate investment trust analysts say REITs are a good piece of a diversified investment portfolio, but some types of REITs appear poised to perform better than others.