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Historic Preservation

Gallun Tannery Site Presents Opportunity and Challenges

Jan 26th, 2011 | By | Category: Feature, Lower East Side

Milwaukee is in the process of losing a historic landmark, the remaining tannery buildings of the former A.F. Gallun & Sons Company tannery are being demolished on the city’s Lower East Side. The buildings once housed one of the city’s many tanning businesses, but in a few weeks all that will remain is the redeveloped office building on the south side of North Water Street.



Marriott Hotel Project Wins Appeal on 3-2 Vote at Zoning Committee

Jan 14th, 2011 | By | Category: East Town, Feature, Zoning, Neighborhoods & Development Committee

At yesterday’s meeting of the Zoning, Neighborhoods & Development Committee Jackson Street Management LLC won an appeal of the Historic Preservation Commission’s ruling regarding their request to demolish five buildings within the East Side Commercial Historic District to make way for a new Marriott Hotel.



Introducing The City Center at 735

Dec 15th, 2010 | By | Category: 735 N. Water Street, East Town, Feature

Gold’s Gym will soon open at 731 N. Water Street, a building that has been empty for 22 years. The gym will occupy five out of eight floors in the building, which was originally built as an annex to the Daniel Burnham designed First Wisconsin National Bank building next door at 735 N. Water Street. As part of the opening of Gold’s Gym, both of the First Wisconsin National Bank buildings will be rebranded as The City Center at 735.



A Possible Solution for the Marriott Proposal?

Dec 14th, 2010 | By | Category: Downtown, Feature, Historic Preservation Commission

Last night the Historic Preservation Commission voted to allow Wave Development, LLC to demolish the historic structures located along Milwaukee St. and Wisconsin Ave. to build a new Marriott Hotel. Under the condition that the project would save and restore the buildings’ facades as part of the new development.



A Room With A View for the New Preservationists

Dec 13th, 2010 | By | Category: Downtown, Feature, Historic Preservation Commission

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Marriott Hotel proposed for downtown Milwaukee has received a lot of attention lately. It parlays questions going far beyond the buildings themselves.



Marriott Proposal to Go Before Historic Preservation Commission on Monday (Renderings)

Nov 12th, 2010 | By | Category: East Town, Feature, Historic Preservation Commission

Wave Development, LLC is seeking a Certificate of Appropriateness to demolish the buildings located at 319-327 East Wisconsin Ave., and 625-631 North Milwaukee St. to construct a Marriott Hotel. This request will be taken up at the November 15th, 2010 meeting of the Historic Preservation Commission.



Demolish Part of Downtown Milwaukee? No.

Oct 16th, 2010 | By | Category: Downtown, Feature

Recently, it was reported that Robert and Michael Levine are once again considering the demolition of historic buildings along Wisconsin Ave. and Broadway, with the hope of landing a hotel development. This proposal draws on the failed “urban renewal” projects of the past. Bulldoze the heart of the city, level the past, and then try, one day, to build new.



Authentic Identity

Apr 11th, 2010 | By | Category: Neighborhoods

Enhancing Milwaukee’s identity is an elusive endeavor. A city can both make and be given an identity. Some recent town center developments have tried to create identity with one massive all encompassing project.



“We can put a wrench in the process”

Sep 8th, 2009 | By | Category: Brewer's Hill, Historic Preservation Commission

So says Jill Capicchioni, of the Historic Brewers Hill Association, in an email to the neighborhood mailing list. The “process” that Jill is intent on putting a wrench in is the proposed move of the State Department of Health Services from the Marcia P. Coggs Human Services Center, 1220 W. Vliet St., to a remodeled space at 2151 N. King Drive.



Hide House Developer Wins Partial Appeal of Historic Designation

Jul 24th, 2009 | By | Category: Hide House, Tony Zielinski

At the Thursday July 23rd meeting of the Zoning, Neighborhoods & Development Committee the appeal of he interim historic designation of the Hide House complex in Bay View was heard. The Hide House complex is made up of a series of buildings constructed over decades with the earliest buildings dating to 1898. At earlier meeting of the Historic Preservation Commission Alderman Zielinski’s nomination of the complex for interim historic designation was approved