some exciting breaking skyscraper news out of milwuakee today!
if built to the reported 50 stories,
this would almost certainly be a new tallest building for the city of milwaukee, probably standing in the 700-800 ft. range.
the city's current tallest building is the 42 floor, 601 ft. US Bank Center built in 1973.
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Alderman says Johnson Controls is planning 50-story HQ downtown
January 21. 2015 4:18PM
Johnson Controls Inc. is working on plans for a 50-story, 1.2 million-square-foot corporate headquarters office building that would be built near the lakefront in downtown Milwaukee, according to Ald. Robert Bauman, who represents the downtown area.
“That’s what I’ve heard from people at (the Department of City Development) and the mayor’s office,” Bauman said. “They want to build the biggest building in the state.”
By comparison, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. is building a 32-story, 1.1 million-square-foot office building at its downtown Milwaukee corporate headquarters campus. The U.S. Bank Center at 777 E. Wisconsin Ave. is 42 stories tall with 1.07 million square feet of space, according to city records.
Bauman estimates the proposed Johnson Controls corporate headquarters building would house about 2,000 to 3,000 employees. The building will house all of the company’s top executives and corporate office staff, he said.
“This is maybe one of the biggest deals ever for downtown,” Bauman said.
Ald. Nik Kovac, on the floor of the Common Council today, referred to the project as the, “Johnson Controls world headquarters consolidation.”
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source:
http://www.biztimes.com/article/2015...NEWS/150129900