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!
• You know that little half-block of Highland Avenue, between MLK Drive and the Milwaukee River? It’s one step closer to becoming a spiffy new riverfront public plaza. On Wednesday, the city’s Public Works Committee gave the so-called Gary P. Grunau Memorial Park a thumbs-up. The park—named in honor of Milwaukee developer Gary Grunau, who died in September 2019—will feature “places to sit, greenery, and a walkway/ramp connecting to the pedestrian bridge and RiverWalk.” Pending approval from the full Common Council, work is expected to begin in October. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
• Demolition work has begun on the former Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources building on the corner of North and MLK Drive. The site will be the future home of the long-in-the-works Bronzeville Center for the Arts. However… [Urban Milwaukee]
• …the arts center has lost one of its key donors, philanthropist Deborah Kern. HOWEVER… [Urban Milwaukee]
• “I was surprised to read the misguided article in Urban Milwaukee last evening. It accurately quotes me, but somehow got the story wrong.” [Deborah Kern]
• Power generation manufacturer Global Power Components wants to convert the former Milwaukee Journal Sentinel printing plant, located at 4101 W. Burnham St. in West Milwaukee, into a manufacturing facility. The new facility would employ roughly 1,000 people. [Milwaukee Business Journal]
• That big blue office building at 310 W. Wisconsin Ave. in the heart of downtown Milwaukee—you know, the one right across the street from The Avenue—could be redeveloped to include 222 apartments. [Urban Milwaukee]
• A plan to build a seven-story, 156-room Moxy Hotel at 430 W. State Street near Fiserv Forum has run into some union opposition. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
• The city is prepping a complicated financing plan—a plan complete with a “new tax incremental financing (TIF) district with a virtually impossible-to-describe shape”—to create 59 affordable houses in the Harambee neighborhood. [Urban Milwaukee]
• The new owner of the former Master Lock complex at 2600 N. 32nd St. is going to do…something with it. [Milwaukee Business Journal]
• Headline: “When The Argo could open in former Fox-Bay Cinema.” Answer: November. [Milwaukee Business Journal]
April 2020
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