Depending on which news sources you follow, Milwaukee is going through either a “renaissance” or a “reinvention.” However you want to define it, it’s safe to say that Milwaukee is currently building a lot of new and wonderful things! Here are some of them, brought to you by GTG Home Buyers!
• Want to weigh in on future plans for Milwaukee County trails and bike lanes? You know, trails like the Oak Leaf Trail and bike lanes like the bike lanes that everyone likes complaining about? If so, show up to South Shore Park on August 27 for a Milwaukee County Parks public input meeting on the always popular topic.
“The county has contracted with SmithGroup for the project, which will seek to identify gaps in the existing trail network and catalog the existing trails in the county,” reports Urban Milwaukee. “SmithGroup will compile a report on areas available for trail development, including public lands, as well as waterway, utility and rail corridors. The project will consider areas for both ‘soft’ hiking trails and paved multi-use trails, according to Parks.”
There’ll be more meetings, too. Oh, and you can make suggestions digitally using the recently launched MKE Trail Comment App. [Urban Milwaukee]
• Lincoln Creek Development has purchased the long-vacant Villa Theater, a.k.a. The Ritz, at 3608 W. Villard Ave. “The buyer intends to re-open the theater as a performance space for plays, live acts and talent shows and lease out the retail and office space,” reports [OnMilwaukee].
• A five-story, 22-unit apartment building may be coming to the site of the long-vacant (and soon-to-be-demolished) Vogue Cleaners at 1414-1420 N. Phillips Ave. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
• New Land Enterprises wants to build a big, honkin’, two-building, approximately 500-unit apartment complex on a mostly vacant lot at 2252 S. 1st St. “A single warehouse building remains in the middle of the site. Two buildings at the northern end of the site were demolished in 2016, as well as a southern building,” reports [Urban Milwaukee].
• Veterans Community Project will begin construction of 40 “tiny homes” for veterans at 6767 N. 60th St. this fall. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
• Headline question: “Can County Afford A New $17 Million Zoo Entrance?” Article answer: “But the price tag for the entrance is steep, and county officials responsible for prioritizing infrastructure projects don’t see the project fitting into the budget, at least not right now.” [Urban Milwaukee]
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