Design/build teams line up for 3rd Ward food market protect.(Brief Article)

Plans to build a public food market in Milwaukee's 3rd Ward are moving forward as the project's steering committee prepares to review proposals from four design/build teams that want to create the 20,000-square-foot structure.

Einar Tangen, president of the Historic Third Ward Association and a member of the steering committee, is optimistic the project will meet its $11.9 million fundraising goal by the end of 2001. The goal maybe reached before then if the committee can sell naming rights for the market's main hail for $3 million, he said.

The public market is planned for a Milwaukee County-owned parking lot at the corner of North Broadway and East St. Paul …