2015 in Review

Aperture Apartments. Photo by Jack Fennimore.

Look no further than our weekly Friday Photos column for an example of how the apartment boom is reshaping Milwaukee.

We covered more than 25 projects in 2015, almost all including a housing component. If one is looking for evidence of a building boom in Milwaukee, look no further than the wide range of projects we covered. That included everything from the biggest building in Milwaukee (Northwestern Mutual‘s new tower) to a new building on Marquette’s campus for housing priests, not to mention the wave of adaptive reuse projects driven by changes to the state’s historic preservation tax credit program and various apartment buildings rising in infill locations in Milwaukee’s most urban neighborhoods. We saw a little of everything get built in 2015, but almost all of it was driven by the demand for urban housing primarily targeting the millenial generation.

Looking forward to 2016, we’ll have an almost entirely new slate of projects to cover. Milwaukee’s momentum looks likely to continue. Meanwhile, here’s a chance to pause and look back at all the projects chronicled in Friday Photos in 2015.

Projects – Developer – Designer/Architect

• 1029 S. 1st St. – New Land Enterprises – Kindness Architecture
• 700 Lofts – Bear Development – Excel Engineering
• 833 East – Irgens Development Partners – Kahler Slater
• Aperture Apartments (The North End Phase III) – Mandel Group – HGA Architects & Engineers
• Belay Apartments – Mandel Group – Johnsen Schmaling Architects
• The Buckler – Phoenix Development Partners – DimensionIV Madison
• Eleven25 at Pabst (Building 29) – Blue Ribbon Management – HGA Architects & Engineers
• Edge on North – Joseph Property Development – James Piwoni Architects & Planners
• Flats 1809 – Yiannis Konstantinou
• Frederick Lofts – Gorman & Company
• Greenwich Park Apartments – Mercy Housing Lakefront – Korb + Associates Architects
• Ingram Place Apartments – Vangard Development Group – Korb + Associates Architects
• Dr. E..J. O’Brien Jesuit Residence – Marquette University – The Kubala Washatko Architects, Inc.
• Kenwood Interdisciplinary Research Center – UWM – Flad Architects
• Kimpton Hotel – HKS Holdings – Kahler Slater
• King Building – Scott Genke/SG Property Development + Management – Gallus Architects
• Martin Building – Margaret Martin – Engberg Anderson
• Milwaukee Intermodal Station – State of Wisconsin – Hanno Weber & Associates
• Milwaukee Streetcar – City of Milwaukee
• MKE Lofts (Posner Building) – HKS Holdings – Engberg Anderson
• Northwestern Mutual Tower and Commons – Northwestern Mutual – Pickard Chilton
• The Rhythm – Tim Gokhman – Kindness Architecture
• Sage on Prospect – Dominion Properties – Striegel-Agacki Studio
• Sojourner Family Peace Center – Sojourner Family Peace Center – Zimmerman Architectural Studios
• SpringHill Suites Marriott Hotel – Jackson Street Management – Kahler Slater
• Walker’s Landing – Kendal Group, Ltd. – Engberg Anderson
• Water Tech Two (Zurn Industries HQ) – Klein Development Inc. – Eppstein Uhen Architects

2015 Friday Photos

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Articles

• New NM Tower Keeps on Rising
• Sage on Prospect is Green and Growing
• “Water Tech Two” Coming to Walker’s Point
• Finally Comes Greenwich Park Apartments
• More Apartments for Bay View
• Quick Pace for NM Tower and Commons
• Ingram Place Apartments on Holton
• The Rhythm Gets Going
• Aperture Apartments Nearing Completion
• Behold the Belay Apartments
• Martin Building Adds Apartments to Third Ward
• Old Bottling House Becomes Student Housing
• SpringHill Suites Marriott Hotel
• The Buckler?
• Taxi Parking to Urban Living
• Ripping the Top Off
• Milwaukee’s New Rooftop Bar
• New Jesuit Residence in Town
• Walker’s Point Apartments Begin To Rise
• Progress on Ingram Place Apartments
• Walker’s Landing Takes Shape
• Third Ward’s Hotel Takes Shape
• 833 East Redefines the Skyline
• Milwaukee’s Biggest Building Rises
• Walker’s Landing Has Landed
• Milwaukee’s New Train Shed
• North End Redefines Water Street
• Sojourner Center Will Be a National Model
• Presenting the Posner Building Apartments
• The Brewery’s 100-Unit Frederick Lofts
• East Side Apartments Nearly Complete
• 1800 E. North Ave Arises From the Ashes
• Early Progress on Kimpton Hotel
• NM’s 27-Hour Concrete Pour
• Walker’s Landing Aims for Third Ward Style
• 833 East Building Making Progress
• The Northwestern Mutual Tower Begins
• Progress on Frederick Lofts
• Streetcar Signing is Quite a Celebration
• UWM’s First New Academic Building in 20 Years
• North End III is Rising
• 700 Lofts Takes Shape in Westown