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2010 Mandel Holiday Food Drive
The 2010 Mandel Holiday Food Drive collected a whopping 2.5 Tons!!! The total of 4,683 pounds was over a thousand pounds more than last year’s total!...

Marine Terminal : Bringing the Outside Inside
Huge windows, long balcony open up condo visually.... By Joanne Kempinger Demski of the Journal Sentinel Posted: Apr. 25, 2009 When Tim and S...

Mandel Group Apartment Portfolio and Corporate Office Collect Over 2 Tons of Food
Over a period of eight weeks, Mandel Group Inc. and its 2,700 unit apartment portfolio joined with Hunger Task Force in a mass collection of food. Th...

Focus on Construction & Design: Take 5 Stritch project will help drive development in St. Francis
Robert Monnat has been around the block a few times, looking for suitable commercial and residential development sites. Monnat, chief operating off...

Point on the River Success Forecasted by Mandel Group
Amid a lackadaisical real estate market, Mandel Group today released its forecast for the success of The Point On The River, a large condominium deve...

UWM selects Mandel residence hall plan
The UWM Real Estate Foundation selected Mandel Group of Milwaukee and its former Hometown gas station site just east of the Milwaukee River at East No...

Mandel Group completing First Place
Mandel Group said Monday that construction of the First Place condominium development is nearly complete, confirming its involvement in the project as...

Condos' bright lights create a buzz
Downtown housing option attracts suburbanites By DAN BENSON dbenson@journalsentinel.com Posted: July 15, 2006 After 20 years, Gary Buerstatte and ...

Getting Away to Milwaukee
Chicagoans are finding second lakefront homes in a revitalized and festive downtown filling up with condos and served by Amtrak By Mary Umberger T...

Mandel Constructor of the Year
Jim Wohead, long-time construction leader at Mandel Group, received a tremendous honor from the American Institute of Constructors – Wisconsin Chapter...

Hats off to Marine Terminal building for its rooftop addition
By WHITNEY GOULD Little dumpy sheds. Ungainly rooftop perches. Clumsy add-on boxes that obscure the once-elegant facades of Queen Anne houses. Wann...

Park East Project Hits Construction Phase
Developers to seek city funding to help transform old tannery into housing, retail and public space By TOM DAYKIN tdaykin@journalsentinel.com Poste...

Cashing in with Green Buildings - They're Not Just for Tree Huggers Anymore
For years, environmental activists have advocated the construction of "green" buildings, instead of conventional buildings, to conserve precious natur...

Broader Vision for Third Ward
More development planned east of N. Jefferson St.
By TOM DAYKIN tdaykin@journalsentinel.com Posted: April 12, 2005 Milwaukee's booming Histori...

Properties Added to Park East Borders
Change to help city pay off $20 million of project By TOM DAYKIN tdaykin@journalsentinel.com Posted: March 17, 2005 A plan to help cover cost over...

With Care, Park East can be Vibrant
Posted: March 13, 2005 Spaces Whitney Gould When I wrote a news story recently about a developer's plan to rehab the Sydney Hih buildin...

ACRE Program
Posted: Feb. 22, 2005 Opportunities Tannette Johnson-Elie As a trader at the Chicago Board Options Exchange, Michael Harper loved the...

Small Steps Adding Up for Park East
Milwaukee County to begin seeking development proposals for first 2-acre parcel Monday
By TOM DAYKIN tdaykin@journalsentinel.com Posted: Feb. 1...

Mandel Group, Inc. Contracts to Purchase St. Mary’s Elm Grove Property
MILWAUKEE -- Mandel Group, Inc. has contracted to acquire a 2 acre parcel of land from St. Mary’s Parish in Elm Grove. The property is located on Wat...

Third Ward redevelopment lands firm as anchor tenant
Posted: Nov. 17, 2004 A former industrial building being converted to condominiums and commercial space in Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward has landed...

Developing Minds
Initiative helps minorities get into commercial real estate Posted: Aug. 17, 2004 Small Business Tannette Johnson-Elie E-MAIL | ARCHIVE ...

New program to attract minorities to commercial real estate industry
Originally published 2004-07-29 A new program has been launched to recruit, train and place minorities in professional careers in commercial real ...

Bayshore thinks even bigger
New plans for 'urban center' add more office, housing space By MARIE ROHDE mrohde@journalsentinel.com Posted: June 22, 2004 Glendale - Developers ...

Council OKs Park East plan without conditions
'Community benefits' development proposal rejected by aldermen By GREG J. BOROWSKI gborowski@journalsentinel.com Posted: June 15, 2004 The Milwauk...

Unity urged in pushing Park East development
By TOM DAYKIN tdaykin@journalsentinel.com Posted: June 20, 2004 Moments after the Milwaukee Common Council rejected a proposal to require union-lev...

Council panel rejects Park East pay plan
Proposal would require union-level wages By TOM DAYKIN tdaykin@journalsentinel.com Posted: June 10, 2004 Milwaukee aldermen Thursday voted against...

Third Ward needs to fight for its character
A quiet tug of war is under way for the architectural soul of the Historic Third Ward. The struggle, in a nutshell: Will this gentrifying old indus...

$45 million needed for Brookfield plan
Proposal to redevelop mall area not feasible without subsidy, analysis says By MIKE JOHNSON mikejohnson@journalsentinel.com Last Updated: May 12, 2...

Mandel Group Breaks Ground For RiverCrest Condominiums
MILWAUKEE -- The Mandel Group and City of Milwaukee officials broke ground today for "RiverCrest", a $20 million housing development along the Milwauk...

Mandel Group Begins Final Phase of Norhardt Crossing Condominiums
Mandel Group, Inc. has begun construction of the final phase of condominiums at its 72-home development known as "Norhardt Crossing" in Brookfield. T...

Downtown Condo Demand Grows
The downtown condominium craze, driven by empty nesters and others who want to live downtown, shows few signs of slowing down - despite the recession,...

Candidates share interest in urban landscape
For 16 years, Milwaukee had a mayor who was fervent about urban design: compact, walkable neighborhoods, street-friendly facades and beautiful bridges...

Seeds of growth are taking root west of the river
But Wisconsin Ave. faces big challenges By TOM DAYKIN tdaykin@journalsentinel.com Posted: March 14, 2004 Downtown developer William Orenstein admi...

Mandel Group buys site for apartment complex
Project planned across from Brookfield Square By TOM DAYKIN tdaykin@journalsentinel.com Posted: Jan. 7, 2004 Plans for an apartment community acro...

Once Tattered, N. Commerce St. is Becoming a Neigh
Ten years ago, if you had predicted N. Commerce St. would be fertile ground for condo buyers, you probably would have been laughed out of the room. Wh...

Piecing together a vibrant city
Park saw big picture while reinventing urban landscape of Milwaukee By WHITNEY GOULD wgould@journalsentinel.com Posted: Dec. 25, 2003 Milwaukee - ...

New Life on the River
When Land & Space predicted in February that the Park East Freeway corridor would be the next hot area for commercial development, we cited a couple o...

City panel backs snug site for second condo tower
By TOM DAYKIN tdaykin@journalsentinel.com Last Updated: Oct. 7, 2003 The developer of downtown condo high-rise Kilbourn Tower failed Tuesday in its...

Downtown finds itself on the upswing
By JASON GERTZEN and TOM DAYKIN jgertzen@journalsentinel.com Last Updated: Sept. 20, 2003 Alicia Urban is a big believer in downtown Milwaukee. She...

Condos planned for riverfront
$30 million project's site near Summerfest grounds By TOM DAYKIN tdaykin@journalsentinel.com Last Updated: June 18, 2003 A $30 million condominium...

Housing development planned in Brookfield
$40 million proposal includes apartments, condos By TOM DAYKIN tdaykin@journalsentinel.com Last Updated: May 12, 2003 A developer is proposing a $...

Brookfield Shows Way to Walkable Living
In my little corner of the east side, you can walk to the grocery store, the drugstore, the hardware store, the movie theater, the bank, several resta...

Land Use Land Mines
Madison - Wisconsin communities have grown as they darned please, when they darned pleased. Now, that tradition is colliding with the state's 1999 Sma...

Most Expensive Condos Planned for Lakefront
A $60 million high-rise, offering the Milwaukee area's most expensive condominiums, is tentatively planned for a downtown site overlooking Lake Michig...

Connections: Condo Developments Along River Adding
First came the condos; now come the green spaces, paths and bridges. On the heels of a housing boom along N. Commerce St., new parkland is in the w...

Quiet Renovation Producing Big Changes
It's the quietest big project in downtown Milwaukee. Relatively little has been written about the $36 million redevelopment of the Boston Store bui...

Retail, Housing Planned for Course
Brookfield - Developers are proposing to replace a miniature golf course on W. Blue Mound Road with an EXPO Design Center showroom, a restaurant, a je...

Gold Under Park East Spur
Land, according to the old saw, is always in demand because they're not making any more of it. Except when they are, as Milwaukee is demonstrating. ...