Updates on three new developments. Plus: a photographic tour of the Ward hall.
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The streetcar is starting to pay off. “Avenir”, at Ogden and Jefferson is being built, at least in part, because the site is near the streetcar line; the developer says as much.
The first phase of this project (104 apartments and 7,000 sq ft of retail) will cost $20.7 million, and its real estate taxes should cover about 10% of the City’s annual streetcar operating subsidy.
Some people have asked why buses can’t be used instead of the streetcar. This project is an example why. Milwaukee has had rubber-tire “trolleys” for many years, and NOBODY has ever built anything along its route citing the rubber-tire trolley as a reason for investing.
The City has said that if the streetcar generates $205 million in new taxable real estate investment, the added real estate taxes would exceed the $1.85 million annual operating subsidy (for the first 2.1 miles of streetcar). The City is already 10% of the way there, even before the streetcar has broken ground.
Looks like we’re going to have to settle for mediocrity at the corner of North and Oakland. Completely soul-less design.
I would like to echo Tom D’s highlighting of the Connector route. Believe it, it’s real. I also want to thank Wangard for their leadership and trail blazing. CARW is working on the Park East area and is preparing to accelerate the progress, Wangard’s project will certainly keep the momentum going. Special shout out to Barry Mandel and the North End. Turning the north side of downtown Milwaukee into a high demand neighborhood! New people downtown are catalysts. Exciting.
I feel sorry for anyone dealing with Mike O’Connor and Dominion Properties. I rented from them in “lovely” west Shorewood (take your chances, people) for years and dealt with the staff’s poor customer service and lack of concern for tenants’ living conditions. Every time it rained significantly, the basement hallway leaked rainwater that was rarely ever mopped up. Disgusting and a hazard. The great flood of 2010? Yeah… huge patches of mold everywhere in the basement and relatively no cleanup. I started wearing a particle mask whenever I went down to do my laundry. Doing some masonry work on the building, hey? Don’t even imagine cleaning up the dust that entered tenants’ units through the literally rotten windows. I was given a Shop Vac and told to clean it up myself, and I wound up coughing up blood due to inhaling brick dust. They even shut off the water to the entire buidling on a Sunday afternoon and told us to wait until Monday–it’d be fixed then because their plumber was out of town. Good luck to anyone in his/her business dealings with these folks. Their reply to me (or any posts that I’ve ever made) are that I am lying (and I have every email I ever exchanged with them, along with saved text messages and a spreadsheet of maintenance requests) and that it was “time for me to move out.” And how. What a life lesson. Good luck to the new lambs choosing to rent from them.
Did the apartments on the former pizza man site pass the ARB?
@Justin. Yes the did… More here http://urbanmilwaukee.com/2013/10/09/eyes-on-milwaukee-new-design-for-greenwich-park-apartments/