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The Greenest Ever and Going Up

Sage on Jackson would be the greenest multi-family structure in Wisconsin and Illinois.

By - Mar 28th, 2014 03:32 pm

Sage on Jackson would be the greenest multi-family structure in Wisconsin and Illinois. Back to the full article.

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4 thoughts on “Friday Photos: The Greenest Ever and Going Up”

  1. Kevin says:

    >20 market-rate residential units with 30 parking spots.

    That seems like a lot of parking. Given the neighborhood I can’t imagine them averaging 1.5 cars per unit. Not to mention people who prefer to park on the street instead of paying for parking. Is it because of parking minimums? I can’t imagine the law in Milwaukee would be _that_ absurd.

    If it is because Milwaukee mandates that urbanmilwaukee should start to pay more attention to _why_ developers build as much parking as they do in certain developments. If a developer believes that their development is more likely to succeed with extra parking that’s fine; but if the city is requiring someone to build more parking than they know they need urbanmilwaukee should use their position to point it out and work for reform.

    Overly high parking minimums waste space, increase building costs and decrease the number of units available in a neighborhood, pushing up rents. Milwaukee should be trying to encourage more development in the neighborhoods, not less.

    If Dominion Properties is above the minimum parking requirements I have no problem with them doing so but I do want to include a snide remark about a “green” building which assumes more than one car per unit…

  2. Dave Reid says:

    @Kevin I’d have to go back and check, but I do believe the neighborhood pushed for more parking (as they unfortunately usually do). But yes so much parking does take away from its green mission.

  3. Grant says:

    Hi all, does someone know how many units this building has?

    The article isn’t clear whether it has a total 20 units or 20 market rate units and some subsidized. I’m guessing the former.

  4. Dave Reid says:

    @Grant Sage on Jackson will have 20 market rate units.

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