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.
Construction of The Couture is finally underway, nearly 9 years after it was first proposed and 50 years after permits were pulled for downtown Milwaukee’s last 40-plus story building: The nearby U.S. Bank Center. “The Moderne is the largest residential tower west of the (Milwaukee) River,” Barrett said. “This (The Couture) will be the largest residential tower in the state.”
RISE Wisconsin celebrated a groundbreaking ceremony. More children, families and young adults will be able to get help here from Dane County community services.
The Milwaukee Bucks and Madison-based North Central Group on Wednesday announced the conceptual details of The Trade Milwaukee, a nine-story Marriott International Autograph Collection hotel, which will be built directly north of Fiserv Forum at the corner of Juneau and Vel R. Phillips avenues in downtown Milwaukee.
Madison Children’s Museum is expanding and announcing plans to reopen. The museum broke ground on a new project on Thursday called the “Wonderground.” It’s a 10,000-square-foot outdoor play space behind the museum. It’s going right where a parking garage used to be.
With its one-two sustainable punch, the recently opened Forest Edge Elementary School, Wisconsin’s first net-zero energy public school, is ready to serve as a model for capturing, controlling, and maximizing the economic value of sunshine and ground temperatures.
The 115th Fighter Wing awarded the first of 19 military construction contracts to a local building company ahead of the F-35 conversion in Madison. According to a news release, J.H. Findorff & Sons will assist with the construction. The project is slated to begin in May and will include demolishing a 4,646 square foot facility to make room for a 19,000 square foot F-35 flight simulator facility.