Three senior Milwaukee County political leaders and philanthropist Michael Cudahy on Friday threw their support behind a proposed engineering school and research park that the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee wants to build just west of the city as an incubator of economic growth.
The officials addressed the UW Board of Regents ahead of a meeting Monday of the Milwaukee County economic development committee, which is scheduled to vote on a motion to begin talks to sell a parcel of unused county land in Wauwatosa for the UWM campus.