In March 2010 the development team for Mercy Housing Lakefront Inc. presented the design for a nine-story LEED certified affordable housing apartment building to the Greenwich Village Neighborhood Association. The apartment building is proposed to be located on Milwaukee’s East Side between N. Farwell Ave. and N. Murray Ave. on an existing City of Milwaukee surface parking lot.

Beerline B Apartments

General Capital Group plans to break ground on the 140-unit Beerline B apartment project, located at the long vacant corner of Commerce St. and Pleasant St., in November.

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Recently I moved my mother from a single family home into a low-income subsidized senior housing development. It wasn’t fun, or easy, but it was necessary. It’s vitally important that all of our communities have facilities like these, as imperfect as they might be, to allow our aging population safe and clean housing to live in. Unfortunately, there is a severe shortage of affordable units, not just in Milwaukee or the Bay View neighborhood, but nationally.

One item of note was the request for a changing in zoning from Industrial Heavy and Park to General Planned Development that had been held at the last City Plan Commission meeting. The approval of this resolution would be next step in allowing the Empowerment Village low income housing project to be built [...]