Milwaukee Buzz - Aug. 17, 2006
Zilber announces his big-picture plans for Pabst site
Joseph J. Zilber, founder and chairman of Zilber Ltd. Real estate company, announced Wednesday that he had completed the purchase of the former Pabst Brewery site -- the controversial 21 acres of currently unused space on the edge of Downtown.
Tags: Zilber, Pabst Brewery, PabstCity, Pabst, Towne, TIF, Bauman, Milwaukee, development, BID

Milwaukee Buzz - March 19, 2005
Milwaukee's alphabet soup unscrambled
There are abbreviations for just about everything. And we have our fair share of them in Milwaukee. The OMC (that's OnMilwaukee.com) team took the time to assemble a list of some of these local pronounceable shortcut words.
Tags: acronyms, abbreviations, initialisms, shortcuts, MIAD, MAM, UWM, MU, BID, CSA, DCD, DOT, FIB, GMVCB, MPL, MPM, MSO, MATCH, MMAC, MSOE, MULYP, SITC, YPM, UPAF, PSA, TIF

Milwaukee Buzz - March 8, 2005
This Sucks: We want Downtown movies!
Just look at any old photo of Downtown Milwaukee and you'll see a downtown strip lined with movie houses. These days, the closest "Downtown movie theater" is the Oriental or Prospect Mall Cinema, both of which are by no means Downtown. Brew City needs a Downtown cinema.
Tags: Petrick, Nichols, BID, Marcus, Grand, Riverside, PabstCity, Jenco, Landmark Oriental, Prospect Mall, Varsity

Milwaukee Buzz - Jan. 14, 2005
East Side explores arts incubator idea
The East Side B.I.D. has applied for a grant from the State of Wisconsin to study the feasibility of creating an arts incubator for the East Side, according to Jim Plaisted, executive director of the East Side Business Improvement District #20.
Tags: Plaisted, arts, East Side, BID, Flick, Murray Hill Pottery, incubator, Kenilworth

Milwaukee Buzz - June 24, 2002
New East Side signboards: information centers or eye candy?
Inspired by Art Nouveau Paris Metro stops, Milwaukee artist Tom Wilson created the intricate, eight-sided kiosk that was installed in front of Hooligan's last year. Wilson has since designed nine, two-sided signboards, all of which will be erected in the North/Farwell/Prospect area of the East Side.
Tags: BID, signboards, North Ave., kiosk, Farwell