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Piggly Wiggly affiliate buys north side shopping center

A north side shopping center anchored by a Piggly Wiggly supermarket has been sold to a group with ties to that grocery chain. The 90,000-square-foot shopping center, 709-733 E. Capitol Drive, was sold to PJR Properties LLC for $3.85 million, according to state real estate records posted Thursday. PJR’s registered agent is Michael Isken, chief financial officer at Sheboygan-based Piggly Wiggly Midwest LLC, which franchises the Piggly Wiggly brand in Wisconsin and elsewhere. Piggly Wiggly Midwest operates 31 corporate stores under the Piggly Wiggly and Butera brands, and franchises 78 Piggly Wiggly stores, according to SupermarketNews.com. Isken couldn’t be immediately reached for comment on the group’s plans for the property. The seller was 709 E. Capitol LLC, which lists Derrick Martin as its registered agent. The Martin family operates the Capitol Drive Piggly Wiggly, as well as Lena’s supermarkets at 2322 W. Oak St., 4030 N. Teutonia Ave., 4061 N. 54th St. and 4623 W. Burleigh St.

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Jason Kidd’s house sold to Milwaukee angel investor

An angel investor in metro Milwaukee has purchased former Milwaukee Bucks head coach Jason Kidd’s Lake Drive mansion in Fox Point for $2.65 million. John and Brigid Miller bought the 8,140-square-foot, two-story Tudor-style home March 1, according to state records. Kidd and his family had lived in the house since August 2014. Kidd paid $2.39 million for the home, purchasing it one month after being named coach of the Bucks. Kidd was fired Jan. 22. The house was listed for $2.75 million. It is assessed by Milwaukee County for $2.39 million. The gated home was built in 2009 on 1-1/2 acres of Lake Michigan frontage. It has 18 rooms, including six bedrooms and six-and-a-half bathrooms. John Miller is the founder and principal at Walker’s Point-based Arenberg Holdings, a venture capital fund established in 2015 to make investments in early-stage companies, with an emphasis on companies located in the Midwest. Miller began his career in Democratic politics and worked as a congressional staffer. He later worked at his family’s farm equipment manufacturing business, Miller-St. Nazianz Inc., becoming the fifth generation president and chief executive officer in 2008. In late 2014, Miller sold the company to CNH Industrial. Miller and his wife, Brigid, have three children.

The Irish Pub owners sell Third Ward business and building

After almost 12 years of owning and operating The Irish Pub in Milwaukee’s historic Third Ward, owner John Duggan has sold both the business and the building, located at 124 N. Water St. The two-story structure, built in 1904, sold on Wednesday for $1.3 million to Chicago-based Alliance 37 LLC, which is registered to Adam Weber of Riverwoods, Ill. Duggan said Weber is an experienced restauranteur with family ties to Wisconsin, hoping to establish himself within Milwaukee’s restaurant industry. Weber could not be immediately contacted for comment. The building– previously home to longtime LGBT bar, the M&M Club– sold for $511,000 more than its current property assessment of $829,000. According to Duggan, Weber plans to make only limited changes to The Irish Pub, operating it under its current name and keeping its current staff. A sign on the building’s window indicates The Irish Pub temporarily closed Dec. 11 through Dec. 14 and will reopen today, Dec. 15, but the bar still appears shuttered. Duggan, a senior vice president at Chicago-based real estate firm, The Concord Group, bought the building in May, 2006 with co-owners Tom Coffey and Ed Stritch and shortly after, opened The Irish Pub. Coffey is a senior associate at New York City-based human resources consulting firm, Mercer and Stritch is president and CEO of The Concord Group. The three sold the bar because they decided “it was just time to move on,” Duggan said. “We built a successful business there and created many happy times for many different people, and lots of people have shared those happy memories with me,” Duggan said. “As owners and staff, we are proud to have created an atmosphere that has created so many great memories over the years.” Neither Duggan, Coffey nor Stritch have immediate plans to stay involved with Milwaukee’s restaurant scene.

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Josephine Dolan built Downtown’s Harp Irish Pub

Most Milwaukeeans know about The Harp Irish Pub at 113 E. Juneau Ave., but, sadly, few now remember its founder, Josephine Dolan, who was a beloved Brew City publican. Though the history of the place is no secret, an email from her granddaughter, Patricia Doherty, allowed us to remember its founder during OnMilwaukee’s annual Bar Month. “I thought you might like the attached picture,” Doherty wrote about the image below. “My grandmother founded The Harp Irish Pub. In 1965, she did a beautiful job building the patio area and she won the city’s beautification award for it. This picture is from the late 1960s.” In fact, when Dolan won the city’s first certificate of appreciation from the Mayor’s Beautification Committee for the project, she was presented with the award at the fountain in the foreground of the photo. A later newspaper article recalled that “Mayor (Henry) Maier said at the time Dolan had created ‘a small island of beauty right here in the Downtown’.” Dolan, who was one of 11 children, was born in Omaha – the daughter of a railroad worker – and arrived here in 1924 when she married Manitowoc native George Dolan, who passed away 17 years later. Dolan worked as a waitress and hostess and then opened her first tavern, called JD’s, in 1944 at 1008 W. Center St. That building survives and is still a working bar. But Dolan’s tenure there was brief. In ’45, she moved to a space at 933 N. Broadway, which sits where MGIC is now located. A Milwaukee Journal article noted that Dolan, “a middle aged widow with all of the spunk that her name suggests,” ran “an authentic Irish bar. … Some of the community’s most substantial citizens, judges, aldermen, a mayor now and then – most with nary a trace of the ‘old sod’ in them – made it their oasis.” Her brother Gene (Eugene) Ralph – 10 years her junior – who passed away in 1980, worked alongside Dolan for many years. The old Harp was ousted by a redevelopment project – the MGIC Plaza was completed in 1973 – and Dolan found a new spot for her tap, which had been renamed The Harp upon its move Downtown. Though The Harp was lauded as a real Irish pub, even for her final St. Patrick’s Day on Broadway, Dolan skipped the cabbage. “I never served corned beef and cabbage,” she told the Milwaukee Sentinel’s Ray Kenney. “I never could stand the smell of it cooking. We serve only Irish stew, highly seasoned. The Irish never season anything. Their food is too bland.” Dolan clearly had no truck with bland. “All our drinks will be green,” she told Kenney in no uncertain terms. “Even if the customers don’t want them that way, that’s the way they drink them.” Dolan, recalls her granddaughter, always spoke her mind and was one tough cookie. “In eighth grade I got in trouble for getting in a fight,” Doherty recalls of an incident […]

Chef Zach Espinosa to take reins at Mr. B’s, A Bartolotta Steakhouse

After spearheading the launch of the three Bartolotta-managed restaurants at the Mayfair Collection, Zach Espinosa will take on a new challenge as head chef for Mr. B’s, A Bartolotta Steakhouse, at 18380 W. Capitol Dr. The news comes with the departure of Chef Dane Baldwin, who has been a part of the Bartolotta Restaurant Group since 2004. During his tenure, he held posts at Bacchus and Harbor House, before joining the team at Mr. B’s in early 2014. The change, which will take effect in late February, will capitalize on Espinosa’s 14 years of work with the Bartolotta restaurants, including his knowledge of both culinary and operational functions and expertise in seafood, which he honed during his years as executive chef for Harbor House. “We are excited to have Zach join Mr. B’s,” says corporate chef Adam Siegel, “We are confident he can lead the kitchen to continued success, and we thank Dane for the time and talent he has provided to our company.” The Mayfair Collection restaurants, which include ABV Social, Café Grace and Taqueria El Jefe, will continue under management by the Bartolotta-trained team.