Real Estate

Milwaukee-based The Boerke Company Inc. announced that it has added three additional brokers: Rand Wolf, formerly a senior vice president and industrial broker for CBRE; Kristian Sydow, formerly vice president of retail brokerage for Grubb & Ellis|Apex Commercial and Nathan Powers, former retail broker for Grubb & Ellis|Apex Commercial.

Another Chicago area company plans to move to Kenosha County.

The new 127-room Hilton Garden Inn hotel in downtown Milwaukee opens today.

October sales of existing homes in the metropolitan Milwaukee housing market were up 32.8 percent compared with the same month a year ago.

The Outpost Natural Foods Cooperative is looking to expand into Ozaukee County for its fourth retail store location, as it has made an offer to acquire property in the city of Mequon at the northeast corner of Mequon Road and Wauwatosa Road.

Blair Williams, the founder of Milwaukee-based WiRED Properties, has a passion for urban neighborhoods.

For the 10th annual BizTimes Commercial Real Estate & Development Conference, held recently at Potawatomi Bingo Casino, BizTimes conducted an experiment.

For years, BMO Harris Bradley Center officials have said that the arena, built in 1988, is not able to generate enough revenue to keep an NBA franchise in Milwaukee for the long term.

Several years ago, community leaders in Indianapolis crafted a plan to use sports to revitalize their city. Major sports venues were built and for years the city has attracted major championship pro and college events, and the fans who come to attend those events have filled hotel rooms and patronized downtown Indy stores and restaurants.

Thomas Ryan, president of Milwaukee-based Jonco Industries Inc. who purchased the Eaton Corp. building at 4201 N. 27th St. in Milwaukee, has lined up several tenants and is ready to move forward with a redevelopment project for the seven-story building.