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Old Posted Oct 3, 2003, 5:02 AM
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With infrastructure underway to reweave the urban fabric once detroyed by the now-demiolshed elevated Park East Freeway, developers are ready to pounce on the opportuity to grad up more blocks for development.

The City will be holding a series of public meeting in the coming weeks where citizens can address issues and see presentations of the lastest, and hopefully final, drafts of the Renewal (Regulatory) Plan and Master Plan for the redevelopment project. Once the plans are ultimately approved by the County Board and City Council, developers can start making deals.

An article from Friday's Small Business Times discusses the excitement building around rebuilding a huge chunk of Downtown Milwaukee. It also gives some info about how materials from the freeway's demolition are being recycled and put to use in other redevelopment efforts underway and scheduled for the near future in other parts of the city.

Read all about it: Get ready, get set, develop - If market conditions prevail, 'they could be lining up to buy' Park East land


In other news, tug of war between commerical development in Downtown Milwaukee and suburban Waukesha County continues. GE Medical is still pondering sites for relocating its headquarters, which currently resides in Waukesha. Nothing really new since the last time reports came out, and the list of contenders remains pretty much the same:
  • Downtown Milwaukee - Ovation Plaza, 22-story office building (proposed last Fall) to be built on Water Street (current site of Marcus Center parking structure)
  • Downtown Milwaukee - A site on Cherry Street, in Park East/Schlitz Park
  • Wauwatosa - Milwaukee County Research Park, near the Zoo Freeway
  • Brookfield - A suburban site near Bluemound and Calhoun Roads
  • Brookfiled - Another site near Bluemound and Calhoun Roads
  • Menomonee Falls - Heritage Reserve, suburban office park
  • Oconomowoc - Pabst Farms, a wannabe new urbanist suburban office/residential development

See article for more details: Downtown Milwaukee jumps high for GE Med jobs

Last edited by Markitect; Oct 3, 2003 at 7:40 AM.
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