Gamber-Johnson employees will be moving into the firm’s new corporate headquarters. The new facility is 133,000 square feet and is located at 5001 Joerns Drive. Employees and their immediate family members will even enjoy a full gym on-site. Learn more here.
The committee is tasked with serious review of district facilities, and this group’s recommendation will be a major factor — though not the only factor — in the school board’s eventual decision about whether to go to referendum, and, if so, what building plan to shoot for.
J.H. Findorff & Son put on a Construction Camp for teenagers ages 13-18 Monday at Middleton High School in order to give them a hands-on experience in exploring careers in the construction industry. Findorff has hosted this camp for the last four years, not including 2020 due to COVID-19.
Construction work on the tallest residential building in Wisconsin is underway. In fact, it’s been underway for more than a month. But that didn’t stop developers Rick Barrett and Tan Lo from gathering with public officials Wednesday to ceremonially break ground on the $190 million The Couture.
Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras plans to build a $25 million, 40,000-square-foot music center on the 1100 block of East Washington Avenue. The new WYSO Center for Music will be home to rehearsal space for the 500 young musicians, ages 5-18, who receive instrumental music training through the 55-year-old organization.
The Sun Prairie Area School District (SPASD) is already planning to conduct construction work at Cardinal Heights Upper Middle School (CHUMS) in anticipation of the building’s transition into three different facilities in the fall of 2022. Summer 2021 work will consist of remodeling restrooms and updating finishes in selected rooms so the remodeled building can still function as CHUMS for the 2021-22 school year.
Post-pandemic higher education looks different. What does the future hold for high school students moving on to the next step? For some perspective on the college versus trade school debate, we attended a graduating senior’s “signing day.” Just one day after graduating from Horlick High School, Lynch signed his contract as a “registered apprentice”, and is already working for Findorff, building the new Racine Aquatic Center.
Some construction pathway students from the Academies of Racine-Case are getting a small taste of the trades thanks to a big project. Findorff invited the students to the RUSD Aquatic Center job site the first week of June and there was plenty for them to see and do.
The $30 million revamp of a former Walker’s Point factory into a hub for start-ups and established firms is nearly done. Built in 1928, EagleKnit Innovation Hub is a former knitting factory that has features seen in other historic Walker’s Point industrial buildings that have been transformed into apartments: large windows, high ceilings, wood floors and exposed interior cream city brick.
Wittnebel’s Tavern was moved 27 miles to Old World Wisconsin. The tavern, separated into three pieces, each with its own trailer, rolled down Highway 67 through Oconomowoc, over the Bark River and through Dousman before it wound through the Southern Unit of the Kettle Moraine State Forest.