The Deal of the Year Awards & Annual Meeting recognizes the most notable commercial real estate professionals and transactions in Wisconsin. The awards event was created to highlight accomplished CARW members who have displayed exceptional achievement in sale and/or lease transactions. We received a record number of submissions this year, and you can view all submissions below.
Submission categories include Office, Industrial, Retail, Investment, and Development!
Thank you to those who nominated deals for this year’s CARW Deal of the Year Awards! – Finalists will be announced the week of September 28th
2026 Nominated Deals
3282 N. 35th Street – City of Milwaukee DPW Acquisition
13001 Baxter Court Investment Sale | Caledonia Corporate Park
425 Better Way, Appleton – Corporate Headquarters Sale
7616 S. 6th Street – Sale, Leaseback + Industrial Repositioning
Amazon DeForest Distribution Center | Six Years. Multiple Setbacks. One Creative Solution.
Archdiocese of Milwaukee Purchase of New Administrative and Pastoral Headquarters
Aya at Ascent Milwaukee
Dynatect Manufacturing Sale Leaseback Portfolio
F Street Germantown Spec Warehouse
FIS Office Building Sale to Kars4Kids
Flamingo Marine – Germantown Gateway Corporate Park
Founders Properties | Badger Distribution – Sussex, WI
Genesee Gravel Pit Redevelopment, County Highway C
Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, P.C. @ R1VER (210 W. Becher Street)
Henricksen Anchors Eagleknit Building in Walker’s Point
Historic Milwaukee Property Sold to Archdiocese of Milwaukee
Ideal Partners & Bayshore Shopping Center
Jackson’s Food Company
Johnson Controls Innovation Center – Warren Johnson Engineering Lab Investment Sale
Landmark Credit Union Former HQ Sale to The Lifeway Church
Mobile Healthcare Innovations Build-to-Suit
Northland Avenue Industrial Development, Appleton
Park Place, Appleton – 8 Building Office Complex Sale
Prairie Towne Center – Turning Crisis into Opportunity on the West Side of Madison
Quad | Generac – Sussex
Ridgewood Industrial Center
Ruekert & Mielke HQ acquisition at Ridgeview IV
Sale of Former Jelly Belly Facility
Sale/Leaseback of Messer Cutting Systems
Schreiber Foods – Beloit WI
Shopko – East Town Mall Reimagined
The Shoppes at The Corridor – New Multi-Tenant Retail Construction
Trail’s Edge Apartments
Walbec Headquarters Acquisition
Whole Foods Market – Madison, WI Investment Sale
Wipfli Advisory LLC relocates HQ to Huron (511 N. Broadway)
Wisconsin School of Professional Psychology Relocation
Zizzl Leases Top Two Floors at CityCenter (735 N. Water Street) with Room To spare