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The Future of Community Building: How Public-Private Partnerships Create Vibrant, Sustainable Places
As cities evolve and the expectations of residents, businesses, and civic leaders shift toward sustainability, inclusivity, and experience-driven design, one model is emerging as a cornerstone of successful development: public-private partnerships (PPPs).
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Revitalizing Communities: How Mixed-Use Developments Are Transforming Milwaukee’s Urban Landscape
Cobalt Partners has played a key role in this transformation, helping to reshape neighborhoods with dynamic, livable spaces that combine residential, retail, office, and public amenities.
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[5.8.25] Jamie Stefan | People on The Move - Milwaukee Business Journal
Milwaukee-based real estate development firm Cobalt Partners is excited to announce the hiring of Jamie Stefan as its Chief Administrative Officer. With well over a decade of executive experience in the real estate investment and legal sectors, Stefan will focus on successfully executing key strategic initiatives, enhancing operational efficiencies, and facilitating cross-functional collaboration.
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[4.14.25] Greenfield Common Council to Vote on The Signature Apartment Complex (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Developers have secured approval from the City of Greenfield Planning Commission for The Signature, a new multi-family apartment complex in Greenfield, and now await the Common Council to sign off.
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![[3.17.25] Closed Jewish Community Center Water Park in Mequon Being Sold. Cobalt Partners to Redevelop Site (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/0761eb_be7b1296594942fba309cf55d98a2483~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/0761eb_be7b1296594942fba309cf55d98a2483~mv2.webp)
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[3.17.25] Closed Jewish Community Center Water Park in Mequon Being Sold. Cobalt Partners to Redevelop Site (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
A former Mequon water park is being sold to a local firm that plans to redevelop the property. Cobalt Partners plans to buy the Hy & Richard Smith JCC Water Park from the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center. The 6.5-acre water park, 11015 N. Market St., closed after the 2024 season because of financial constraints. The purchase is to close by early June. “Cobalt Partners has a reputation for working productively with municipalities and delivering positive outco
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![[2.6.25] Milwaukee developer Cobalt Partners plans Third Ward restaurant (Milwaukee Business Journal)](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/0761eb_737269017bec453f92920b9efcf08545~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/0761eb_737269017bec453f92920b9efcf08545~mv2.webp)
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[2.6.25] Milwaukee developer Cobalt Partners plans Third Ward restaurant (Milwaukee Business Journal)
A new restaurant is planned in Milwaukee's Third Ward — across from Café Benelux and the Milwaukee Public Market — after current occupant Cobalt Partners relocates its first-floor offices in the space to the top floor. Milwaukee developer Cobalt Partners said Thursday that it has acquired the top floor of the Commission House building at 400 N. Broadway and will move its offices there later this year. The move follows a significant design and renovation effort led by Milwau
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[11.18.24] 84South retail buildings sold for $33 million (BizTimes)
Milwaukee-based Marquee Capital, the real estate investment arm of Marcus Corp., purchased the large-format retail portions of the 84South development in Greenfield for $33.1 million. The purchase includes three separate retail buildings with about 195,000 square feet of leasable retail space, all of which is occupied. Major tenants include Kohl’s, Total Wine & More, Fresh Thyme...
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[11.10.2024] Developers Pitch Dream Projects for Northridge Site (BizTimes)
Developers Pitch Dream Projects for Northridge Site
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[11.5.2024] Senior Housing Project Pitched for OneNorth Development in Bayside (BizTimes)
Wauwatosa-based Matter Development is proposing a 153-unit senior living facility as the next phase of the 26-acre OneNorth development in Bayside.
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![[10.24.2024] Construction begins on First Building of 9-Block Downtown Kenosha Redevelopment (Kenosha Area Business Alliance)](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fd712c_335db5918a7145b99e7df53390651b3d~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_333,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/fd712c_335db5918a7145b99e7df53390651b3d~mv2.webp)
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[10.24.2024] Construction begins on First Building of 9-Block Downtown Kenosha Redevelopment (Kenosha Area Business Alliance)
Construction has begun on the first of several buildings planned in downtown Kenosha as part of a nine-block redevelopment effort known as the Kenosha Harbor District.
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[9.22.2024] Real Estate Spotlight: Residents move into First Building at OneNorth Development in Bayside. (BizTimes)
At their nearly completed $40 million apartment building, known as The Symphony, Scott and Charles Yauck of Milwaukee-based Cobalt Partners notice everything. In the stairwell, walls are marked with blue tape where the paint needs a touch up. Inside one of the building’s 98 apartment units, they double check that all the hardware is fastened tightly.
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[1.3.2024] Loomis Crossing welcomes first residents, city of Greenfield and developer enter into new agreement (BizTimes)
Milwaukee-based Cobalt Partners is welcoming tenants to its first apartment building at its Loomis Crossing development in Greenfield, but in order to keep development at the 38-acre site going amid ballooning development costs, Cobalt and the city have entered into a new development agreement.
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[10.23.2023] Big Vision, Big Plans for Downtown Kenosha (BizTimes)
It’s a story not unlike many cities in the upper Midwest.
A series of manufacturing plant closures left Kenosha’s downtown mostly empty for many years.
From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, the once-bustling manufacturing town saw companies like American Motor Corp., Anaconda American Brass and MacWhyte Co. shut down or reduce their operations in the city, eliminating thousands of jobs.
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[5.10.2023] Nine-block, $450 million development planned in downtown Kenosha (BizTimes)
Next Phase of Bayside Development includes Grocer, Health Club and Luxury Apartments
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[5.10.2023] Ground Broken for new Bayside OneNorth Development and North Shore Library (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
A rendering of the OneNorth development is on display as part of the groundbreaking ceremony of the OneNorth development in Bayside on Wednesday, May 10, 2023. The project, north of West Brown Deer Road between I-43 and North Port Washington Road, is to include apartments, retail and a new home for the North Shore Library.
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[4.18.2023] A Modern Vision for Greenfield (BizTimes)
When Greenfield Mayor Michael Neitzke was first elected in 2005, he had already heard plenty of excuses from developers about why more ambitious developments wouldn’t work in the small suburban city just southwest of Milwaukee.
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[2.9.2023] Groundbreaking celebrated for medical office building at Loomis Crossing development (BizTimes)
The 38-acre Loomis Crossing development at Interstate 894 and Loomis Road in Greenfield achieved a key milestone on Thursday as developers celebrated the groundbreaking for construction of a 40,288-square-foot medical office building planned for the sprawling campus.
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[5.5.2022] Cobalt Partners, Joseph Property Development acquire portfolio of apartments and development site in $59 million deal (BizTimes)
Milwaukee-based Cobalt Partners and Joseph Property Development have partnered on the purchase of a $59 million apartment portfolio from West Allis-based Supreme Builders.
The deal includes a 25.5-acre vacant parcel of land off I-894 in Greenfield where Cobalt and Joseph plan to develop a 250-unit apartment complex. The site is southwest of South 92nd Street and Coldspring Road, near the Hale Interchange.
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[12.10.2021] Cobalt Partners has multi-faceted plan to relocate public facilities, develop pocket neighborhood in Fox Point (BizTimes)
Milwaukee-based Cobalt Partners LLC has made a name for itself taking on large-scale developments in Milwaukee’s suburbs, often involving the transformation of vacant or underused sites into landmark mixed-use districts.
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[12.6.2021] Cobalt ‘immediately’ moving forward with $84 million Bayside project following village approval (BizTimes)
Milwaukee-based Cobalt Partners LLC says work will commence “immediately” on its $84 million development in Bayside following village approval of a $34.9 million
A series of manufacturing plant closures left Kenosha’s downtown mostly empty for many years.
From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, the once-bustling manufacturing town saw companies like American Motor Corp., Anaconda American Brass and MacWhyte Co. shut down or reduce their operations in the city, eliminatin
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