and build skyscrapers there? You’d have made a lot more money,’” she remembered. The architect, who died in 2000, would say, “Because back then, in Wisconsin and Milwaukee, there was a lot ...

The Pabst Building, which opened in 1892, was Milwaukee’s first skyscraper. It was demolished in 1981 by Madison-based development firm Carley Capital Group − which led the Milwaukee Common ...