An Illinois manufacturer that is developing a new line of automated farming equipment is moving into one of the large industrial buildings in the former Bucyrus-Erie campus in South Milwaukee.

The buildings were originally part of the headquarters of mining equipment manufacturer Bucyrus, which was acquired in 2011 by Caterpillar Corp.

Milwaukee developer Scott Crawford Inc. has returned to South Milwaukee with a $36.7 million plan to convert former Bucyrus-Erie buildings into apartments and commercial space, and has a new ...