Written by Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Much has happened during the former Pabst brewery’s decade of redevelopment: a hotel at the former brew house, apartments in both new and renovated historic buildings, a university facility and other projects have revived empty structures and vacant lots. But the picture won’t be complete until early 2019, with […]
By Sean Ryan – Reporter, Milwaukee Business Journal Construction could start next spring on the first of 36 tiny houses in Milwaukee that will put a roof over young adults’ heads while they train for stable jobs. Those houses would be built over a three-year span at 4200 N. Humboldt Blvd. on green space that belongs to […]
Co-Written by Kimball Crangle and Melinda Pollack, Denver Business Journal, May 5, 2017 While Denver’s civic leadership focus turns to infrastructure, Denver voters continue to rate the affordable housing challenge as a top priority that they would like to see the city council and mayor more aggressively address. We believe there’s a path forward that yields […]
Published on Urban Milwaukee on April 26, 2017 Madison, WI—April 25, 2017— Affordable Housing Finance (AHF) has named Wisconsin –based Gorman & Company (Gorman) as one of the top ten affordable housing developers in the nation in the only listing of its kind, AHF 50. AHF surveyed over 110 companies regionally and nationally to produce […]
By Jeffrey Steele of Multi-Housing News Madison, Wis.—Carbon at Union Corners, a mixed-use community including a 90-residence apartment community with a substantial affordable housing component, has broken ground in Madison, Wis. A long-vacant industrial site once occupied by Ray-O-Vac Corp. is now the site for Gorman & Co.’s new development. Carbon is the result of […]
Written by Larry Avila of the Wisconsin State Journal OREGON — Gary Gorman recognized that for the development company bearing his name to continue without him someday, he needed a leadership transition plan to ensure its future. In mid-March Gorman & Co., which he built from a one-man operation from a basement office in summer 1984 to […]
How do you revitalize a neighborhood that’s faced years of vacancy and disinvestment without displacing the people who call it home? It’s a problem that Milwaukee’s Northside Housing Initiative has been tackling for the last eight years. A 1914 home was restored in 2013. The Northside Housing Initiative (NHI), a project of national developer Gorman & […]
Written by Doug Erickson, Wisconsin State Journal Several years ago, leaders of the Madison Catholic Diocese realized they had a big challenge on their hands with the Bishop O’Connor Catholic Pastoral Center, a former seminary and home to the diocesan headquarters. The majestic but aging building on the city’s Far West Side had become costly […]
By Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinal, September 2, 2015 MILWAUKEE – Right now, it’s just open space on the first floor of the gracious Hills building in the heart of a historic neighborhood on Milwaukee’s near south side. But by late 2016 or early 2017, there will be books, computers and furnishings in a 21st-century […]
By Emily Toepher, West Valley View, August 14, 2015 BRIAN SWANTON, Arizona market president of Gorman and Co., speaks Tuesday at the groundbreaking for Madison Heights, Avondale’s new housing project on Dysart Road and Madison Street. The project is the first in the state to take advantage of a new federal program called the Rental […]