Moxy Hotel Passed by Divided Committee, Sets Up Council Showdown
Deer District project hit by proxy war over unionizing The Trade.
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All this “highest and best use” BS topped off by a heaping helping of Bauman word salad…LOL, cheers, M’waukee!
“We’re told we can’t talk about ‘highest and best use,’ so we won’t talk about highest and best use,” said the alderman. He said he was moving to reject the zoning change because it lacked a rooftop bar, relied on a first-floor bar for check-in instead of a conventional desk and had small rooms. “A logical assumption is that at this location you would have a rooftop bar… that’s a detail, a new detail.”
This whole development along with the FPC venue is a carbon copy of the one already built in Madison. I assume Live Nation (FPC) is building similar developments all over the country.
I’ll put aside the monopolistic tendencies of Live Nation and just concentrate on the proposal itself. I’ve been to the Moxy and the adjacent music venue the Sylvee in Madison. It’s a modern, hip hotel that caters to out of town guests going to concerts.
Is it the best thing that could be built on this site? No. It’s pretty cookie-cutter and, along with the Trade a block away, will likely fill a hotel niche that Milwaukee may or may not be lacking.
If I had a magic wand, I’d like something more substantial for the site. I’d also breakup Live Nation and disallow their directly competing venue from being built across from the lovely Turner Hall (AEG affiliated, the other major concert player in the world).
Overall, it’ll probably be fine. I wish Westown had less “event space” and more housing.