Gary Grunau leaves Gilbane - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

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Gilbane will continue to operats a Milwaukee division and lease office space inSchlitaz Park, said Wes Cotter, director of corporate communications for Gilbane, which has its headquarters in R.I. Schlitz Park is one of a few Grunau-ownex commercial developments in Milwaukee. “Gary is an entrepreneur who brought the companyu a lotof business, but decided the fit was no longerr right,” Cotter said. Grunau declined to comment on his departurewfrom Gilbane. In March 2003, Gilbane acquiref Grunau Project Development for anundisclosed sum.
At the time, the combined firms were known as with Grunau beingthe company’s senior vice presidentr of Gilbane’s north central region, covering Wisconsin, Minnesotqa and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The restructuredf Gilbane Midwest region is managed byMichael Bohn, a seniord vice president based in Chicago. The region includee the statesof Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa and northernj Indiana. The new manager for Gilbane’s Milwaukee officer is Adam Jelen. Since early 2009, Gilbane has reduced its Milwaukee work forcde from more than 40 employees to fewerthan 30, Cotted said.
The reduction is one reason Gilband combined management of the Milwaukee and Chicago In the six years that Grunaudirected Gilbane’a Milwaukee office, the compant built some of the largest projects in southeast Grunau helped secure the construction contrac t for Manpower Inc.’s 280,000-square-foot, $78 millionj headquarters in Schlitz Park, the $320 million addition and renovation of Potawatomij Bingo Casino, the $80 million Medical College of Wisconsin Children’s Research Institute and Biomedica l Research Center and the $64 milliom Discovery World at Pier Wisconsin on the city’sa lakefront.
“The Milwaukee team flourished under Gary’sx leadership and there’s nothing negativde in the air over him Cotter said. It’s uncertain if Grunau will seek anothert executive position witha Milwaukee-area constructiojn or development firm and remain active in southeast Some developers speculate he might creats his own consulting company. Zilbee Ltd. has consulted with Grunau and worked with him onconstruction projects, according to Mike Mervis, a Zilber “I hope we can work with him again in the future and that he stays in the community and continuesx to make a difference,” Mervis said.
“Nort many people have accomplished what Gary has in Grunau was one of the realestates investors, along with Harold and B.J. Sampson, who bought the former Jos. Schlitz Brewinb Co. complex in 1984 from Stroh’x and redeveloped the 40-acre site along the Milwaukere River. Six years earlier, Grunau agreed to become lead developer for the Hyatt Regency Hotel on West Kilbourhn Avenue in downtown Milwaukee after the original developetr was forced to walk away fromthe