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Block Build MKE is spent Friday, Aug. 17 and Saturday, Aug. 18 revitalizing the community with home repairs and more. Evan Peterson was in Clare Square Neighborhood with more.

To create community pride and transform the existing, relatively windowless high school into a center for community activity, the District used this as an opportunity to completely renovate the school, aesthetically and functionally; changing the way education is provided to the high school population.

Burlington native Mike Sorge has worked on buildings all around the country. Each one is unique, but coming home to work on a new basketball arena in the heart of downtown Milwaukee was a particularly special experience.

A beautiful view of nearby Lake Michigan will await residents of a new, 22-story tower just northeast of downtown Milwaukee when construction on the building is completed in 2020.

To address aging and overcrowding, Eppstein Uhen Architects (EUA) assisted the Lake Mills Area School District (LMASD) in creating a new K-4 school that accommodates 600 students in a modern learning environment.

Ixonia Elementary School is getting closer to completion, as concrete work for the exterior curbs and main entrance has been finished, with the stone having been laid and rolled for the new bus loop

Quietly, Klein Development Inc. is leading the development of a five-story, 96-unit apartment building just south of E. Brady St. on the city’s Lower East Side.

As a result of a grant awarded by the Economic Development Administration to the City of Wauwatosa and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Real Estate Foundation, the University constructed the first building within Innovation Park.

Fireworks lit up Milwaukee's lakefront Saturday as a VIP crowd helped christen the new pavilion at Discovery World to raise money for the educational museum.

People living in the Oconomowoc Area School District voted resoundingly to pass a referendum calling for the construction of a new elementary school and perform maintenance and add space to the district’s other schools.

The DeForest Area School District is holding a series of informational meetings for residents who are interested in joining an upcoming community advisory committee. The three informational meetings, scheduled Aug. 1, Aug. 2 and Aug. 9, are meant to share information regarding facility needs within the district, as well the district’s growth projections.

The Menasha High School project disproves the theory that existing building renovations cannot achieve the same modern, flexible and dynamic impact as new construction. Eppstein Uhen Architects (EUA) …

The state has awarded a $500,000 grant to help redevelop the nearly century-old Oscar Mayer plant on Madison's east side. The entire project is expected to cost roughly $20 million initially, and if a…

The new addition to Ixonia Elementary School is progressing quickly, and the project should be finished in time for the start of the new school year.

The remodeling of Summerfest’s American Family Amphitheater will extend the roof by more than 60 percent in height, but Summerfest CEO Don Smiley also is strategizing another major overhaul in the festival grounds’ children’s areas.

After an impressive seven months for the company, Gates Corp. has debuted its new space in downtown Denver.

So far, 2018 has brought the 107-year-old manufacturing company a lot of successes. It rebra…

Together with the Waunakee Community School District (WCSD) and community input, EUA developed a plan to address a growing community and the need for flexibility for future expansion by creating finan…

Construction is underway for a project that could transform part of downtown Indianapolis. The Bottleworks District is a $300 million mixed-use re-development of the old Coca-Cola bottling plant on Mass Ave.

Clairvoyance is the ability to perceive things in the future beyond normal sensory contact. Such a skill would be an asset in commercial real estate development, where intuition must be carefully balanced by the analysis of a broad range of conditions, challenge, and constraints reaching far beyond the capacity of mere instinct.

Local officials have broken ground on a new Prairie Village Community Center for seniors in Whitewater.

With the half-century celebration come and gone, Summerfest kicks off its 51st year Wednesday feeling fresher and looking younger than it has in ages.

The completely rebuilt US Cellular Connection Stage at Henry Maier Festival Park will make its Summerfest debut next week.

On Friday, Summerfest will host a free performance by EDM star Diplo to christen the latest stage upgrade at the Henry Maier Festival Grounds.

Meadow View Elementary School in Oconomowoc held a ground-breaking ceremony on June 1 to mark the launch of its school construction project — the result of a successful November 2016 referendum.

With just 13 days remaining before the start of the 51st edition of Summerfest, festival leaders and community supporters gathered Thursday to debut the brand new north gate.

Milwaukee World Festival, Inc. today officially opened the new North Gate and Community Plaza, which has been under construction since last fall.

The upcoming world-class Wisconsin Entertainment and Sports Center (WESC), in conjunction with renowned food and beverage provider Levy, will not offer plastic straws at events and will use compostable food packaging as part of its sustainability program.

The community meetings that discussed how the district should move forward with its planned referendum came to a head during the May 7, Lake Mills Area School District meeting.

The community is invited to help the Bristol School Board plan for the future at an “interactive community workshop” set for Monday at which the district facilities assessment will be shared.

The Lake Mills Area School District community conversation continues with the critical needs at the high school as the venue gets close to capacity.

In the world of consumer electronics, virtual reality used to be considered the technology of gamers – not of government agencies or businesses. Across Wisconsin, however, virtual and augmented reality are changing the way we work in industries like health care, architecture, law enforcement and marketing.

ProHealth Care plans to build a $55 million hospital in Mukwonago, continuing the health system’s expansion of its campus at the intersection of Highway 83 and Interstate 43.

ProHealth Care’s Mukwonag…

The Lake Mills Area School District Master Planning Community Forum, May 2, brought a good-sized crowd to Lake Mills High School ready to hear the latest feedback the District has received about the future.

With work on schedule and a deadline 3½ months out, the end is in sight for construction at Baraboo High School.

Using shiny gold shovels with black and orange ribbons near the handle to throw ceremonious scoops of dirt, members of the Verona Area School District broke ground in April on their brand new high school.

Project name: HSA Bank expansion Address: Second floor of Schlitz Park’s RiverCenter building at 1515 N. RiverCenter Drive, Milwaukee

Meet Urbanite, New Land’s new 13-story apartment tower rising at 1840 N. Farwell Ave.

Waupun Area School District broke ground Tuesday for construction of its new 7,000 square foot Warrior Innovation Center.

Those driving along North Harbor Drive near Milwaukee’s lakefront these days can see plenty of evidence of the construction progress underway at the Summerfest grounds.

The Verona school district’s current high school is now overcrowded and school officials expect the district to teaching an additional 1,600 by 2030.

With eye-catching designs, the best books for kids, and impressive community programming, these children’s libraries stand out as some of the top choices in the United States. I think you’ll want to s…

Renovations are underway at the Beaver Dam Community Hospital's Vita Park Medical Building.

Lacking space to expand the senior living campus in Dubuque, Iowa, a master plan was created for a satellite campus, Luther Manor Asbury.

NEWaukee and the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) today presented Eppstein Uhen Architects (EUA) with a 2018 Bubbler Award.

The DeForest Area School District is forming a citizen advisory committee to explore facility needs at its schools. The citizen advisory committee (CAC) was approved at the DeForest Area School Board’s April 9 meeting, following advisement from district administration and Superintendent Eric Runez.

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Community in Texas Plans 101-Unit Expansion

An Integrated Property Management senior living community in Kingwood, Texas, has announced a new expansion project that would add 73 …

From brownfield site to bustling retail hub, the team behind Freshwater Plaza says the mixed-use development has been a catalyst for growth in Milwaukee’s Walker’s Point neighborhood.

WISCONSIN RAPIDS - Aspirus Riverview Hospital will have more room for hospital transportation in addition to its expanded space for new moms.

The hospital's $25 million project, which also includes up…

Senior living community Saint John’s on the Lake on Milwaukee’s East Side will hold a groundbreaking ceremony on Friday, April 13, to celebrate the start of construction of a 22-story residential towe…

With the goal of building a premier destination medical facility, the designers of Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin’s Drexel Town Square Health Center have created calming environments f…

Last fall, Discovery World announced an $18 million, 20,000-square foot expansion that would allow the museum, whose current building opened in 2006, to broaden its exhibition space.

MADISON, Wis. — Dave Franchino is no longer avoiding East Washington Avenue.

For years, his office was located in the American Center Business Park north of Interstate 39-90-94. So when clients from o…

It’s the million-dollar question: what will baby boomers want when they move into senior living communities en masse?

One recent debate is whether it’s better to go big or go small with regard to unit…

NEWaukee’s annual Bubbler Awards highlight the Wisconsin companies that work to accommodate the specific interests and needs of Millennials in the workplace.

About 50 community members packed into the 64-year-old gymnasium at Clinton Elementary School on Wednesday night to consider the district’s groundwork on a potentially sweeping referendum in November.…

LAKE MILLS -- Officials in the Lake Mills Area School District want community input on a three phase facilities plan and possible referendum in November. The school district held its first master plan…

Klement Sausage Co. Inc. CEO Tom Danneker told his employees that the company had lost its Milwaukee Brewers racing sausage sponsorship on Jan. 23. The next day, he met with Don Smiley, CEO of Summerfest organizer Milwaukee World Festival Inc.

Allison Pfeifer and Emily Thomas of Eppstein Uhen Architects (EUA) received Gold and Silver Awards, at the Wisconsin Chapter of American Society of Interior Designers’ (ASID) 42nd Annual Design Excellence Awards.

The DeForest Area School District has moved on to phase two of its facilities study and is now discussing forming a citizen committee to investigate what work needs to be done.

After six years of planning and construction, residents of Brookside Care Center on Wednesday moved into the newly completed care center, located at 3506 Washington Road. The center is operated by Kenosha County.

Summerfest today offered updates on two construction projects that will change the face of the festival in 2018.

A new North Entry Gate and Community Plaza – which was designed by Eppstein Uhen Archit…

Milwaukee World Festival, Inc. (MWF) officials announced today that Briggs & Stratton has donated a 60kW commercial standby generator, equipped with an industrial grade engine for reliable back-up power.

Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin plans to spend $33 million on a three-story, 100,000-square-foot facility in the city of West Bend.

The facility at 1700 W. Paradise Drive will be anch…

Next year, the teen center will shift across the street as part of the Goodman Community Center’s Brassworks expansion project. Our youth and staff have been working with Eppstein Uhen Architects to talk design and ensure that youth voice is part of the process.

When David Freshwater, chairman of Watermark Retirement Communities, and David Barnes, the company’s president and CEO, set out to build a skilled nursing facility for the first time, they had decades…

The residence hall that was designed in the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s master plan and built into the State of Wisconsin’s ’13-15 biennial budget will finally be breaking ground this spring …

In two short years in the workplace studio at Eppstein Uhen Architects Heather Turner Loth has opened new doors to potential business opportunities at more than 30 companies, including several Fortune 100 firms.

APPLETON - File this story under “Appleton Public Library: The Next Chapter.”

In a proposal selected out of eight submissions, a new $29.8 million library structure could be part of a mixed-used devel…

Members of the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee were taken through what will eventually become the newly-renovated U.S. Cellular Connections Stage at the big gig.

A group of Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee students got a special treat Monday as they received a virtual tour of the new U.S. Cellular Stage being built on the Summerfest grounds and were…

When picturing the best setting for a thriving, well-lived life, most people won’t imagine a nursing home. The skilled nursing facility of the future can change that, however, with a strong technological base that facilitates connectivity for both residents and medical personnel.

Less than a decade ago, Saint John’s on the Lake constructed a new 21-story tower on its urban campus just north of downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Now, the nonprofit continuing care retirement comm…

In senior living, it’s inevitable that some architecture and design features go from hot to not. Resident preferences change, care practices evolve, technology advances, and the way senior housing bui…

Global Marketing and consumer research giant, Epsilon, is transforming more than 68,000-SF of second-generation space for use as their new regional headquarters in Westminster. Located at 11030 Circle…

When the Milwaukee Bucks' $500 million arena opens this fall, it will be a world-class sports and entertainment venue. However, on Wednesday, Jan. 24, it served as a huge classroom for Bradley Tech students.

In advance of the Jan. 18 opening, Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin held an open house Saturday at the new Drexel Town Square Health Center in Oak Creek. Check out the slideshow put together by Milwaukee Business Journal freelance photographer Kenny Yoo to get your first look inside the new health clinic.

In a race against the clock set for the beginning of the 2018-19 NBA season, work on the Milwaukee Bucks arena is continuing at a rapid pace—going from a lattice of structural steel to a completely en…

Construction is to begin this spring on a 22-story tower that will expand a Milwaukee east side senior housing community and alter the city's skyline overlooking Lake Michigan.

Saint John's on the Lak…

Within a creative community like Denver’s, looking forward is best accomplished together.

The romanticized myth of the solitary genius makes for some admittedly compelling imagery and anecdote, but in…

Nearly 10 years after the completion of the Ironworks building and gymnasium just across the street, Eppstein Uhen Architects is proud to be a part of the historic preservation and expansion of the Go…

In October, Badger Liquor opened their new office space at 1517 North RiverCenter Drive. The move to Schlitz Park has been in the making for almost two years. It all started when Badger’s Executive Co…

Stepping into the lobby of Rockwell Automation Inc.’s corporate headquarters in Milwaukee’s Walker’s Point neighborhood is like traveling back in time.

Milwaukee World Festival, Inc. and Uline announced today a new capital project which will build a new Uline Warehouse stage at the north end of Henry Maier Festival Park and continue Uline’s sponsorship of Summerfest presented by American Family Insurance.

It's an estimated $181 million school and the public got a sneak peak at what it may look like when it's completed in 2020. "It's nearly 600,000 square feet, it's got a four station field house with an indoor track, it has a competition 8-lane swimming pool," said architect Chris Michuad.

As the sun sets on 2017, senior housing architecture and design is evolving to help providers meet today’s challenges while pushing the industry toward a bolder, more innovative future.

Several leadin…

HRA Senior Living (Vero Beach, Fla.), in partnership with Confluent Development, is building a new 122,000-square-foot assisted living and memory care community in Beavercreek, Ohio.

The design for Swiss manufacturer Zund America Inc.’s headquarters would bring a more modern edge to Oak Creek, where it would be built south of the community’s new City Hall and library.

Eppstein Uhen Architects have been sponsoring the award-winning Integrated Practice/Building Information Modeling Studio at UWM’s School of Architecture and Urban Planning since the fall 2007 semester…

Discovery World announced a major expansion and renovation today that will add nearly 20,000 square feet of public space to the museum, which sits on the lakefront at the foot of Clybourn Avenue.

Eppstein Uhen Architects, one of Milwaukee’s largest design firms, hired Scott Weas as its new director of operations.

After extensive research and community input, WCSD and EUA developed a long-range Facilities Master Plan that aligned with the priorities of a growing community, and addressed flexibility needs throug…

Click here to see Gillian Johnson's "Top 5 Faves for the Office" revealed in the September edition of Building Dialogue magazine [an affiliate with Colorado Real Estate Journal].

Swiss manufacturer Zund America Inc. will receive $900,000 in Oak Creek financing to build its new North American headquarters near Drexel Town Square.

ProHealth Care wants to add a second floor to part of the D.N. Greenwald Center in Mukwonago, according to plans filed with the village.

The health care system’s plans include a vertical addition of 3…

Students at Waukesha South High School can expect a quicker lunch experience this school year, now that the cafeteria has been remodeled to have more of a "food court feel."

When Becky Steinhoff’s organization purchased an abandoned foundry on Waubesa Street in 2005, she couldn’t immediately envision it as the thriving home of the Goodman Community Center. Now an $11.2 mi…

The Milwaukee Bucks celebrate the opening of their new practice facility Thursday, a key moment for both the renaissance of the team and downtown Milwaukee.

The building carries a long name — the Froe…

The Milwaukee Bucks today opened the Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Sports Science Center, the team’s state-of-the-art training facility in downtown Milwaukee.

The 77,500 square-foot…

Water. While much has been written about affordable housing and the acute labor shortage, as pressing as these problems are, they take a backseat to water.

In a recent study, conducted by Barvara Zaferos of the Milwaukee Business Journal, the largest Milwaukee-area architecture firms were listed from top to bottom, headlined by Eppstein Uhen Architects. …

Virtual reality technology, like other advancements before it, is causing some fundamental changes in the architecture industry. 

To explore these changes, the Wisconsin Technology Council held a lunch…

The Prep
Months before the shoot even happens, the Lands' End team selects color palettes and textures, and develops the creative themes that will run through the season’s catalogs by creating visual c…

The Milwaukee Bucks are on target to complete in July the team's new two-story training center that is being built on the western side of North Sixth Street and West Juneau Avenue in downtown Milwauke…

Several such companies have established offices, expanded their local presence or entered the market through a merger in recent months, attracted to Denver because of the area's development boom and y…

“I basically start any project by abandoning any notion of ‘style,’ ” says Johnson, an award-winning principal at Denver’s Burkett Design who specializes in commercial interiors. “Style in and of itse…

Spirits were high on Wednesday as the Waupun Area School District broke ground for a district-wide facility project that has been years in the making.

The first of three groundbreaking ceremonies kick…

A five-story, 96-unit apartment building was approved for a large site just south of E. Brady St. today. The Zoning, Neighborhoods & Development Committee unanimously approved a zoning change for …

The acquisition follows a series of expansions and investment by Eppstein Uhen, which has 180 employees in Wisconsin and Iowa. The firm recently rehabbed its 3rd Ward offices to accommodate hires in M…

Denver-based architecture and interior design firm BurkettDesign Inc. has been acquired by Milwaukee-based Eppstein Uhen Architects.

Saint John's on the Lake would develop a new tower, with up to 20 stories, at the Milwaukee east side senior housing community under preliminary plans.

An apartment building proposed for Milwaukee's east side has received Plan Commission approval after the developer dropped a 10-story tower in response to concerns from neighborhood residents.

Discovery World would develop a major addition and convert one of its theaters into new exhibit space as part of an $18 million improvement project at the museum on downtown Milwaukee's lakefront.

Tha…

For many of us, we spend the day sitting in a tiny office with no windows.

Some employees are sentenced to life in a cubicle with florescent lights burning over head.

But times are changing.

Imagine a…

About 35 miles east of Wisconsin’s state capital is Lake Mills—quintessential suburbia with a gazebo-adorned town center, a weekly farmer’s market, and the rural neighborliness of Anytown, USA. But un…

(Projects highlighted below only feature EUA projects)

Waunakee Intermediate School wins big at the In Business Magazine Commercial Design Awards with Project of the Year, Best Green-Built Project and…

CMH broke ground on the new Our Lady of Memorial Chapel, the capstone project of the Crusading for Excellence Campaign. This new prayer and worship space will be used for the sacramental benefit of th…

With five projects in the queue for repair and the development of a new help desk coding program underway, information technology students at Fox Valley Technical College are finding lots to do in the…

Representatives from Eppstein Uhen Architects and CG Schmidt on Monday told Baraboo School Board members they plan to complete new locker rooms and install a fire sprinkler system at the high school b…

Eppstein Uhen Architects (EUA) Senior Planner Jeffrey Anderzhon, FAIA, received his American Institute of Architects (AIA) Fellowship in 2007, joining a select group of AIA Iowa members.

Top Projects is our chance to honor those in the industry — generals, subcontractors, architects, engineers and owners — whose projects met and exceeded expectations in 2016. Projects can be of all si…

Milwaukee Business Journal readers know our publication puts a lot of emphasis on real estate news — and justifiably so as real estate dealings impact everybody in every business, in one way or anothe…

The Whitewater Unified School District (WUSD) School Board on Monday took further steps forward in its post-referendum facilities upgrade process.

US News and World report has ranked Milwaukee as the 47^th best city in the country to live in. Accredited to the average housing costs, unemployment rate of 4.6% and a thriving music and art scene. 41…

United Hospital System plans to start construction this spring on a major expansion of St. Catherine’s Medical Center campus in Pleasant Prairie for an advanced outpatient surgical wing.

Architects behind Sun Prairie’s two new elementary schools presented the Sun Prairie School Board on Monday, Feb. 6 with an update on the preliminary building plans.

The Oconomowoc School Board Monday unanimously approved the schematic design for the expansion and renovation of Ixonia Elementary School, a first step in planning the project.

Naturally, Zurn Industries LLC's new Milwaukee headquarters includes toilets. Except, this office building puts one of those toilets out in the open for display.

Saint John’s On The Lake on Milwaukee’s East Side will replace or significantly expand its existing three-story building and is planning a third tower on the corner of Prospect Avenue and E. Kane Place.

Watch Video on the Impact the Building is Making on the Student Experience 

In this transformative school, learning is no longer restricted to the classroom, it happens throughout the building. EUA st…

Watch Video on Menasha High School

EUA helped bring the character and history of this building to life while creating modern learning environments at the same time, continuing the tradition of Menasha…

Encapsys LLC, a global encapsulation technology leader in Appleton, Wisc., is currently housed in three different facilities on one campus. This 90-person company was looking to consolidate all operations into one building, while creating a strong corporate identity and improving the ongoing safety of their operations

Marcus Hotels & Resorts' proposal for the vacant site at 4th Street and Wisconsin Avenue in downtown Milwaukee includes a 276-room expansion of the existing Hilton Milwaukee City Center hotel and …

The Marcus Corp. has released details and renderings of a proposal for a major hotel expansion and high-rise apartment tower at the long-dormant city-owned parking lot at North Fourth Street and West …

A site near downtown Milwaukee's convention center would see a 276-room expansion of the neighboring Hilton hotel and development of a 200-unit apartment high-rise under a new $125 million proposal.

M…

Moments before the city's Plan Commission delivered the final municipal vote needed to greenlight a proposed center for entrepreneurship on Monday night, history was made. Or so claimed the leader of …

Mortenson Construction, Divine Savior Holy Angels High School and Eppstein Uhen Architects are the three top winners in the large category (100-249 employees) for the Milwaukee Business Journal's 2016…

That open feel c…

The Milwaukee Bucks, Marquette University, Mortenson Construction and Aurora Health Care are among the winners of the Milwaukee Business Journal's 2016 Best Places to Work awards.

Other winners includ…

The organizers of Milwaukee’s Summerfest music festival are drawing on familiar faces for the festival grounds’ next big renovation project.

On Monday morning the nonprofit organization Milwaukee Worl…

With a design that celebrates the creative process, WTS Paradigm might not be setting a new paradigm with a creative office renovation, but it’s reinforcing one that’s centered on employee retention, recruitment, collaboration, and fulfillment.

Click here to watch informational walk-through video of EUA's HarborChase of Shorewood senior living project.

A tour of district offices and the Monona Grove Liberal Arts Charter School were among the highlights of the Feb. 17 meeting of the Monona Grove School District Long-Range Facilities Planning Committe…

“It was done in a way that gives us a good balance of work and fun,” states Henry, Application Consultant at WTS Paradigm, about their new headquarters. “I feel like it is a much better expression of …

When Justin Johnson was hired in 2012 to help revamp the Watertown hospital cafeteria to emphasize scratch food and sustainable operations, he was skeptical whether the concept would work.

Now, Johnso…

The new facility will encompass more than 100,000 square feet of space and will double as the national headquarters of Menasha Packaging Co., which is Menasha Corp.'s largest subsidiary.

"Having been …

Even a brief hiatus from the profession didn’t stop Andrew Malanowski, AIA, NCARB, LEED APBD+C, from earning his license at 28. Now, the Wisconsin architect has his hands full as an IDP supervisor, li…

The world’s population is aging rapidly in both the developed and developing countries. Most of these societies have undertaken the obligation of providing care for their elders and the environments i…