Jeramey Jannene
Friday Photos

East Side Apartments Nearly Complete

Chicago developer's project will add 36 apartments just off Brady Street. And a huge increase in city tax revenue.

By - Apr 24th, 2015 02:45 pm

Another apartment building will soon be completed on Milwaukee’s East Side. A “Now Leasing” sign adorns the construction site of 1809 N. Cambridge Ave., a five-story, 36-unit building just north of E. Brady St. The project is being developed by Chicago developer Yiannis Konstantinou.

The development was built “as of right,” meaning it conforms to all existing zoning rules. This allowed the developer to skip a lengthy approval process. Instead of meetings and hearings with the City Plan Commission, neighbors, Common Council, and Department of City Development, the developer simply pulled building permits and went to work.

Konstantinou acquired the lot from CIBM Bank in early 2013 for $150,000. He bought it less than a year after a fire severely damaged a vacant home that occupied the parcel. Prior to the fire, the home was sold in June 2012 for $280,000. As recently as 2011, the home and lot were assessed for a combined $410,900. Last year, the land was assessed at $46,500. The assessor’s office didn’t miss the changes to the property, bumping up the land assessment to $252,000 and setting the value of the improvements at $1,702,000 this year.

That assessment increase will raise the annual property tax bill from $1,393.74 in 2014 to approximately $62,400. The new building will yield local governments a combined $61,000 more than the empty lot it replaced. That’s a nice chunk of change, roughly equivalent to the salary of a police officer.

Photo Gallery by Brendan Murphy

2 thoughts on “Friday Photos: East Side Apartments Nearly Complete”

  1. Paul Gibler says:

    The exterior of this building is turning out nicer than I would have expected given the lack of review.

    Also curious why there is no email sharing option among the sharing functions of the Urban Milwaukee website. I see all the social sharing options, but no email option.

  2. Alan says:

    The facade is tasteful enough, if dull. The ground-level pedestrian interface is pretty bad, dominated by a garage door and without any detailing of interest. Hopefully it will be hidden behind landscaping, at least.

Leave a Reply

You must be an Urban Milwaukee member to leave a comment. Membership, which includes a host of perks, including an ad-free website, tickets to marquee events like Summerfest, the Wisconsin State Fair and the Florentine Opera, a better photo browser and access to members-only, behind-the-scenes tours, starts at $9/month. Learn more.

Join now and cancel anytime.

If you are an existing member, sign-in to leave a comment.

Have questions? Need to report an error? Contact Us