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Fromm Buys Downtown Dog Park Naming Rights and Announces Riverfront Taproom In addition to buying the naming rights for a new riverfront dog park under I-794 – as first reported here last year – Fromm Nieman Brands, which owns Fromm Family Pet Foods and Foxtown Brewery in Mequon – has purchased the adjacent vacant lot…

GRAEF President and CEO, John Kissinger Named the University of Wisconsin-Madison 2022 Distinguished Achievement Award Recipient GRAEF is proud to announce that our President and CEO was named the 2022 University of Wisconsin-Madison Distinguished Achievement Award recipient. Congratulations, John!   An excerpt from the College of Engineering: We are honoring John Kissinger MSCEE ’83 (BSCE/SE…

100-story tower to break ground in Downtown Miami A 1,049-foot-tall tower will officially break ground in Downtown Miami on Oct. 27. GRAEF is proud to be providing civil engineering on this historic project. The proposed 100-story Waldorf Astoria Hotel & Residences Miami at 300 Biscayne Blvd. is among at least five Miami projects that aim…

Wisconsin Department of Transportation Cuts Ribbon on New WIS 23 Corridor in Fond du Lac and Sheboygan Counties Governor Tony Evers today joined WisDOT and community leaders to celebrate the new WIS 23 corridor in Fond du Lac and Sheboygan counties. The long-awaited completion of this project makes travel safer for all modes of transportation…

Milwaukee Public Schools Hosts River Trail School Urban Forest Ribbon Cutting Milwaukee Public Schools (October 6, 2022) – A ribbon cutting and tree planting at River Trail School on October 6 is marking the opening of installations that will help capture stormwater and irrigate a small forest of about 100 shrubs and trees. The upgrades…

GRAEF Moves Green Bay Office to Downtown District GRAEF is proud to announce that our Green Bay office location is moving to the Adams Street Garage building in Green Bay’s Downtown District. Our Green Bay team was located at their previous office space at the Baeten Farms Executive Office Park for nearly 30 years. “As…

Julie Chapman Honored as a 2022 Daily Reporter Woman in Construction GRAEF is proud to announce that Julie Chapman, a transportation engineer at GRAEF has been selected as a 2022 Daily Reporter Woman In Construction. As a child, Julie Chapman was always drawn to building things, whether that involved projects around the house with her…

GRAEF Awarded Best Place to Work by Milwaukee Business Journal GRAEF is honored to once again be named a Best Place to Work by the Milwaukee Business Journal. The 2022 Top Workplaces list showcase outstanding businesses in Southeastern Wisconsin. Employee scores were measured on how favorably they responded to questions in core areas including personal…

Resch Expo Highlighted in ACEC Wisconsin Blog Introducing the Resch Expo – Lambeau Field’s New Neighbor Just east of Lambeau Field in Green Bay, you will find the stunning new Resch Expo located at the southeast corner of Lombardi Avenue and Oneida Street. GRAEF, along with Kahler Slater Architects and Populous, provided the design of…

GRAEF Celebrates Grand (Re)Opening at The Avenue Milwaukee-based engineering firm GRAEF recently showed off its new office headquarters to clients, associates and elected officials during a grand “reopening” event at The Avenue development in downtown Milwaukee. In late 2019, GRAEF relocated its headquarters to a 35,000-square-foot space on the third floor of the former Grand Avenue Mall, having led the…