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Asking Scott Yauck what he’s working on tends to take a while. On a recent morning, the founder and CEO of Cobalt Partners unfurled a large sheet of paper across a conference table at the commercial real estate development firm’s headquarters in Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward and worked his way down a list of more than a dozen projects that the firm has in the works throughout the region. More than 30 minutes later, Yauck was finally finished.

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.

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

Developers Pitch Dream Projects for Northridge Site

Developer Scott Yauck has pictures of two street signs displayed on the wall of his 3rd Ward office in Milwaukee that show Caroline Drive and Charles Drive. Those two streets in Menomonee Falls either coincidentally or cosmically have lured Yauck their way during the course of his career. It started in high school, when he dated Anne Zizzo, who at the time lived in that area and had the local paper route and now, as CEO of Zizzo Group Marketing Inc., is a business partner