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The former Comedy Café building on Brady Street could become a new arcade bar and restaurant. Des Moines, Iowa residents Joshua Ivey and Sam Summers are planning to open Up-Down MKE at 615 E. Brady St. Inside of Up-Down in Des Moines taken from Facebook page. The two have filed a liquor license with the city of Milwaukee and plan on opening the bar in February. Ivey started Up-Down in 2011 in Des Moines. He has since expanded to Minneapolis and Kansas City. According to its website , the bar features more than 40 arcade games from the 1980s and 1990s, pinball machines, skee-ball, Nintendo and Sega console gaming , life-size Jenga and connect four. All games are 25 cents. The bar also boasts “an extensive craft beer selection with 20 beers on tap and even more bottles and cans, as well as ‘80s and ‘ 90s inspired cocktails .” Ivey said he chooses his next location by going to cities and looking for a solid young professional base . He found that in Milwaukee. “Ideally we want 25- to 40...

The Stillwater City Council this week unanimously approved a special use permit, planned unit development and preliminary plat for the city’s first senior living project . The Lakes at Stillwater, a $72 million project, will be built on a 57- acre site overlooking the northern end of Long Lake near Rutherford Elementary School . The project is a collaboration between a Minneapolis-based nonprofit called Intergenerational Living & Health Care Inc. (ILHC), which focuses on interactive programming that brings children and seniors together. ILHC will function as owner and operator, but it will work with the Goodman Group, which will be the developer and manager. The Goodman Group is a senior living and health care management company based in Chaska. The Northland Real Estate Group , a Twin Cities- based commercial real estate investment and development company , will serve as co-developer. Construction is expected to start this fall and is due to be completed at the end of 2018. ...

Lancaster- based Oak Tree Development Group said it has agreed to buy the 11-acre property from Wilbur’s owner, Cargill, for an undisclosed price. “We like projects that are community-centric,” said Oak Tree President Mike O’Brien. “We’re excited to do a project that positively impacts a small town like this.” Oak Tree expects to submit plans to the borough in 60 days. The firm hopes to get them approved by year-end, start construction in early 2018 and complete the venture by March 2019. A name for the project has yet to be selected, said O’Brien. He declined to disclose the project’s cost. “We’re eager to work with Oak Tree,” said Karen Weibel, president of Lititz’s Borough Council . “It’s a local firm. They have a lot of credibility. We’re extremely thankful that the building will be utilized quickly, and not sit there for five or 10 years and invite blight.” Mayor Tim Snyder also was enthusiastic about the plan, saying the new uses “will enhance downtown Lititz . ... It’s going...

August 25, 2017 (Note: The weekly construction update highlights only projects with new developments. Comprehensive updates are distributed monthly. For the most recent comprehensive update , click here.) These are among the construction activities scheduled Aug. 27-Sept. 2 at the University of Wyoming: Agriculture C and Engineering Addition Buildings (Summit Sealants, Montrose, Colo.; September 2017) -- Paint, caulk and minor repairs to the exteriors of Agriculture C and Engineering are ongoing. The Agriculture C west-end double-door entrance has scaffolding. Pedestrian traffic is routed through a scaffold passage tunnel to protect pedestrians from drop hazards from work occurring above. Please use caution around crews. Cheyenne Family Medicine (Simon Contractors, Cheyenne; July 2017) -- Reconstruction of the north parking lot is ongoing. Work will require closure of the lot. Please use caution around work crews. Spanish Walk Apartments (Arcon Inc. and Lance’s Painting, Laramie; A...

There was a time, and it wasn’t long ago, when Mission Valley was farmland. Black and white photos from the 1960s show rows of turnip plants and herds of grazing dairy cows owned by farmers. “I remember the stories of how they would take the cows under the freeway after they built Interstate 8, or 80 back in those days,” said Rob Hutsel, a fourth- generation San Diegan . “The deal with the landowner was he still had to get his cows to the river. And so they left a tunnel under it so they could take their cows down to the river to get their water... I always wonder whatever happened to the tunnel.” The completion of the I-8 freeway around 1960 was the beginning of the end of an era in valley. The Mission Valley mall was built, and the valley became a suburban shopping destination . Now, another shape shift is on the horizon. Hutsel is president of the San Diego River Park Foundation and a member of the city’s Mission Valley Planning Group . He sees opportunity in Mission Valley . “...

Some of these sites have been lying empty for years or have become eyesores. It’s never good to see a building or piece of land being unused, especially well-known landmarks and once-loved attractions. But these places may not stay like that for long as plans have been made to redevelop them. Here we have put together a list of some of Tyneside’s derelict sites or vacant buildings and see what’s being done to bring them back to life. 1. Tynemouth Outdoor Pool, North Tyneside Tynemouth outdoor pool on Longsands beach" src="src" /> As it looks today: Tynemouth outdoor pool on Longsands beach The lido, at the southern end of Longsands beach in Tynemouth, was once a major attraction. It originally opened in 1925 and became a popular destination for locals and visitors. However, the pool’s popularity began to drop in the 1970s when cheap package holidays and indoor pools both started to become available. Read More In 1996, it was turned into an artificial rockpool...

Related Coverage MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WBTW) – Rumors surrounding new apartments going up in Market Common have Myrtle Beach city leaders working to clear up fact from fiction. Myrtle Beach Planning Director Carol Coleman has been getting a lot of calls recently about Lively at Market Commons , a new apartment complex planned for the city. “My understanding is a letter went out, or maybe something on social media went out, indicating that it was a public housing project ,” explained Coleman . “It is not a public housing development . It is a private developer.” The rumor created a bit of a stir, but conceptual designs show four new luxury apartment buildings at Farrow Parkway and Meyers Avenue, not public housing . “When you’re doing public housing , you can’t typically put the amount of money that you’re putting into it that this developer is putting in. It should be an upscale rental project ,” said Coleman. Coleman says similar apartment buildings have one room studios that start ...

The long retail spine of Sydney Road, Brunswick, just north of Melbourne's CBD, was once a prosperous trading outpost on the way to the goldfields. These days it's a bohemian mix of variety stores, op shops, halal butchers and Lebanese bakeries. Take a side street to the west, however, and a different picture emerges. Sandwiched between Sydney Road and the Upfield train line is an area undergoing rapid and widespread transformation. Light industry is fast being replaced by mid- rise apartment buildings , their inhabitants attracted by the short commute into town and cheaper prices than in the city's south-east. The quality of these units is, on the whole, depressingly bad; think poor ventilation and bedrooms that "borrow" natural light (a weasel word for being dark and windowless). The occasional jazzy façade tries feebly to make up for otherwise cheap construction amid a chorus of greys. At ground level, carpark roller doors alternate with mean pocket garden...