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"Hundreds of new jobs are coming to downtown Milwaukee in the form of a new hotel.The first jobs will be for construction workers. The permanent jobs will be for hotel employees.The Marriott Hotel will open on East Wisconsin Avenue and Milwaukee Street. It's the first full-service hotel to be built downtown in more than 20 years.\"Improving the hotel package downtown and adding a great product like Marriott helps us attract big national conventions and when we do that all the communities around us benefit from additional business and additional revenue,\" Visit Milwaukee President Paul Upchurch said.The Marriott hotel work will be rolled out over the next few weeks.The $54 million privately funded deal will eventually create up to 450 construction jobs. Steam fitter Ken Kraemer said construction workers need the paychecks.\"We're talking from carpenters, plumbers, electricians, steam fitters. All the trades will be involved in this project from demolition to the remodeling part,\" Kraimer said.The Marriott will have 200 rooms, a restaurant and luxury service, creating as many as 200 permanent jobs when it opens in mid-2013.Business leaders such as Wyman Winston are celebrating a move forward in a tough economy.\"The ability for the public and private sector to work together on a common goal to bring economic vitality to the city downtown to spur jobs,\" said Winston, the executive director of Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority. Jon Peck represents the company that will run the Marriott and hire the crew.\"The type of people we're looking for is friendly people. I mean, we can teach technical in the hotel business. It's not overly complicated, but the friendly part we have to have,\" said Peck of White Lodging Services.The hotel construction begins following controversy over preserving the history of that part of downtown.The hotel is expected to add more than $2 million a year to the local tax base."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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