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Defining Lakefront Vision Moves Forward
Sale of Couture Development Approved
Sale of Couture Development Approved Back to the full release.
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Are there any updates on the road plans for the lakefront?
I’m surprised the Urban Milwaukee crowd is so gung ho on these tower projects. This is standard Garden City development and I suspect it will have no effect on life on the ground.
This is little more than taxpayer subsidized housing for wanna be one-percenters built on public land. An “instant landmark” it’s not– it’s an uninspired painted concrete and glass building that looks like everything else built in the city the past few years.
You see Garden City towers in a park, I see towers fronting Central Park. At the core of it, you’re defending a windowless concrete box that houses diesel buses on Milwaukee’s front door. Is your goal to sabotage Milwaukee or is it just bad sarcasm?
I see a lot of thoughtless tearing down of this proposal and it’s lazy, toss out your “better” ideas.
I want to see this beautiful project rise up. It’s designed to make the Lakefront more accessible to everyone. Bringing residents to the area and literally bridging between a corporate office dead zone and our own beautiful inland ocean. I don’t care that I can’t afford to live there, I’m happy enough that this will improve the area, be nice to look at, will provide many jobs to build, and will provide about as much property tax per year as it costs to run a library.
How does a skyscraper make an area accessible? Tim explicitly states that he will have no reason to make use of this structure. But it will be nice to look at while he’s driving down the freeway.
I’ll bet dollars to donuts that ground level will remain a dead zone because this development is of no interest to anybody except the handful of people who live and work there.
Look at the transit portion of the development and literally the bridge to be built across Lincoln Memorial Drive before spouting off.
So tell me, who finds the windowless concrete bus warehouse interesting? No one. Were you behind the awful public art in many Milwaukee County parks… Cheering loudly for a big red steel beam to grace Lincoln Park or a garbage sculpture to enliven Gordon Park?