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Awards for business leadership will be given at BizExpo on May 30 GRAEF CEO Kissinger wins Bravo! Entrepreneur Award John Kissinger, president, and chief executive officer of GRAEF, will receive a Bravo! Entrepreneur Award from BizTimes Media LLC. The awards salute southeastern Wisconsin business executives for their bold leadership, business growth, and innovation. The winners…

GRAEF provided structural and civil engineering for new residence hall Marquette’s Commons project to receive In Business Commercial Design Award The Commons, Marquette University’s new, state-of-the-art residence hall, will receive an In Business magazine Commercial Design Award as one of Wisconsin’s most outstanding commercial construction projects of 2018. The award will be presented to J.H.…

The Executive Consult Podcast: Episode 3 Steve Jagler A veteran business journalist who is now our Director of Corporate Communications, Steve pulls back the newsroom curtain for listeners of The Executive Consult Podcast. He shares insights and stories from decades of covering Fortune 500 executives. He even recounts a conversation with business legend George Dalton,…

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…