Posts by Justyce Dixon

Nine GRAEF Projects Honored in 2021 Daily Reporter Top Project Awards Selected by an expert panel of judges from over than 100 entries across the state of Wisconsin, 40 projects were honored at The Daily Reporter 2021 Top Project Awards. We are honored to share that among those on the list were nine GRAEF projects…

GRAEF Named a Top Workplace by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for Fourth Year We are proud to share that GRAEF has been named a 2022 Top Workplace by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and their research parter Energage! The 2022 Top Workplaces list showcase outstanding businesses in Southeastern Wisconsin. The heart of the Top Workplaces program is…

Celebrating Main Street’s Bounceback – GRAEF Project Honored as Best Public Improvement Project The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) recognized the best downtown revitalization projects of 2021 at the 31st Wisconsin Main Street Awards ceremony held at the historic Hotel Retlaw in downtown Fond du Lac. “Our Main Street businesses and communities are thriving thanks…

Four GRAEF Projects Place Among ACEC 2022 Engineering Excellence Awards The American Council of Engineering Companies of Wisconsin (ACEC WI) has named four GRAEF projects in this year’s Engineering Excellence Awards. The named projects highlight exceptional engineering designs that significantly contribute to our quality of life. Best of State Projects 87th Street Reconstruction Resch Expo…

Center of the action: The winding path to realizing The Avenue’s grand vision Rewind back to 2015 in downtown Milwaukee: The Bucks are in their first season under new ownership, a group of New York hedge-fund billionaires with lofty ambitions. The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra is quietly planning a massive fundraising campaign to make the long-vacant Warner…

Hacker Talking Earth Day with 620WTMJ To help celebrate Earth Day, Stephanie Hacker, Planning + Urban Design Practice Area Leader at GRAEF, met with the Newsradio 620 WTMJ team to discuss triple bottom line sustainability, and what actions we can all take to live a healthy, more green-friendly everyday life. Tune in to see what…

Lori Rosenthal Named a Notable Woman in Engineering Rosenthal is among only 14 female engineer honorees. GRAEF is proud to announce that Lori Rosenthal, vice president, principal and group leader at GRAEF was named a 2022 Notable Woman in Engineering by Milwaukee BizTimes. She started as a project structural engineer at the firm nearly 30…

GRAEF Finalizes Acquisition with Sarasota, Turks and Caicos Engineering Firm  Acquisition adds two new office locations for GRAEF.  GRAEF has completed the acquisition of Erickson Consulting Engineers (ECE), a coastal and civil engineering firm based in Sarasota, Fl. The acquisition also includes ownership of ECE’s partner company, Coastal Design and Engineering (CDE), a civil, coastal…

GRAEF Project, Drexel Town Square Highlighted in League of Wisconsin Municipality Magazine Drexel Town Square: The Postcard View The City of Oak Creek, a fast growing suburb of Milwaukee, lacked a key amenity for the community: a downtown. When the relatively young city went through a period of searching for its civic identity, or “perfect…