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!
• Remember that plan to build a $5 million, 2,500-square-foot Visitor and Education Center (VEC) in Lakeshore State Park? Well, it’s still a thing, and the Friends of Lakeshore State Park are still in fundraising mode.
“The low-slung hub for freshwater education, recreation and community events will be tucked into a native prairie near the park’s marina with a green roof, solar panels to generate electricity, bird-safe windows, permeable patio pavers, native landscaping and bioswales,” explains a brochure. “The building includes a classroom-events space, a permanent and interactive educational exhibit, accessible restrooms, drinking water station and offices for state DNR staff.”
Want to donate to the VEC? Click HERE. According to a list of donors and donations, the campaign has raised at least $1.8 million.
The 22-acre Lakeshore State Park island sits just across from Henry Maier Festival Park. It was built from Deep Tunnel landfill in 1991, and a visitor center was part of the original vision.
• Remember that plan to build a giant data center on the site of a former Walmart at 5825 W. Hope Ave.? Well, it turns out that everyone is saying it isn’t really a data center, that it’s just one use of a multi-use redevelopment plan, and that the thing (whatever it is) would only take up 10,000 to 19,000 square feet of the 160,000-square-foot site. (That’s not quite as “giant” as, say, the 2.5 million-square-foot data center campus coming to Port Washington.) Nonetheless, the City Plan Commission recently removed discussion of the Walmart “data center” from its May 18 agenda, and is looking into the issue further.
Oh, and here’s the a proposed floor plan, which shows how the “potential data processing/computer services/computer research facility” measures up to the other proposed uses for the mixed-use building, including a self-service storage facility and a new Capitol branch of the Milwaukee Public Library. [Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service]
Offsite links to more new and wonderful things…
• “Alderwoman delays Bay View apartment review due to neighbor concerns.” [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
• “Amazon plans second rapid fulfillment facility in Milwaukee.” [BizTimes]
• “Historic Milwaukee factory transforms into apartments.” [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
• “Historic Mayer Building in Third Ward eyes residential expansion.” [Milwaukee Business Journal]
• “Milwaukee convention center hotel plans face more study.” [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
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