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Common Council Approves Plan South Milwaukee Moves Forward with Downtown Streetscaping Plan The City of South Milwaukee is moving forward with a downtown streetscaping plan that was designed by GRAEF. The plan to provide upgrades to sidewalks, lighting and decorative features was approved by the South Milwaukee Common Council on March 5. The council will…

Project created a new 21st century downtown GRAEF Receives Merit Award for Design of Oak Creek’s Drexel Town Square The Wisconsin Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects awarded GRAEF a Merit Award for the design of Drexel Town Square in Oak Creek, WI. Oak Creek is a fast-growing suburb of Milwaukee, but the…

Area leaders to head up the organization’s 2019 community campaign GRAEF President and CEO John Kissinger appointed to serve three-year term on the United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County board United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County has named four Milwaukee area leaders to head up the organization’s 2019 community campaign. Campaign co-chairs…

The ACE Mentor Program is an industry-led nonprofit intended to grow a future workforce for architects, engineers and construction contractors. ACE Design, Construction Mentorship Program Grows in Milwaukee A national training program aiming to attract high school students to construction and design careers more than doubled its enrollment during the second year in Milwaukee and…

ProHealth Care will open the city’s first hospital GRAEF Provides Engineering for New Hospital in Mukwonago Construction has begun on a new hospital to be developed by ProHealth Care in Mukwonago. The three-story structure will be the city’s first hospital. It is being built on the site of an existing, two story medical campus at…

A brief case of President and CEO, John Kissinger, by BizTimes How Do I Retain Our Best People? “The No. 1 thing is to create a career path that is exciting. This means the work is professionally challenging, it is not repetitive or monotonous, and it has the potential to grow. Ideally, it will also…

GRAEF’s New Headquarters, The Avenue, Draws Prospects to Downtown Those new details were revealed by one of the downtown Milwaukee project’s developers during a Tuesday commercial real estate event. Now known as The Avenue, the redeveloped buildings will include 3rd Street Market Hall, a food hall on the former mall’s first floor, as well as offices on…

Executive to be honored for excellence in his field GRAEF CEO Kissinger is STEM Forward Engineer of the Year STEM Forward is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and metropolitan Milwaukee’s leading Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education and outreach provider. STEM Forward’s programs, events, and activities inspire local youth to pursue STEM careers and provide a…

GRAEF Anchors The Avenue Downtown Milwaukee Redevelopment GRAEF Moves Milwaukee Headquarters to The Avenue Downtown Milwaukee turned a corner, appropriately right at its most storied intersection: 3rd and Wisconsin. The site is experiencing its second reincarnation as new plans were unveiled to transform the former Shops of the Grand Avenue into an impressive array of…

GRAEF Named a Winner in the Milwaukee Business Journal’s Best Places to Work Milwaukee Business Journal’s Best Places to Work GRAEF is proud to be named a winner in the Milwaukee Business Journal’s Best Places to work in the large employer category (100-199 employees). Employees in GRAEF’s Milwaukee Headquarters participated in a voluntary survey that…