The latest plans for the project include numerous public elements including: a rooftop park, a public transportation concourse, a streetcar stop, a walkway to the lakefront, a bike sharing station, public parking and a public plaza. The project has 81,560 square feet of public space and $17.5 million in public improvements, according to the Barrett and Abele announcement.
^eastsider, there are dedicated threads in the highrise proposals subforum for all of the taller milwaukee proposals.
it's cool if you still want to cross post info to this thread too; just an FYI for you in case you want to follow and add to the discussions in the following threads:
In the coming months we can look forward to the construction start of Greenwhich Park, Mandel's Adventure Rock development, DOMuS, Rhythm, River House, Wangard's Brady/Water development, and North End's final phase. 833 East, NML, Kimpton, North End's 3rd phase, Walker's Landing, and Frederick Lofts are already well underway. Milwaukee's new arena and the Streetcar Blue Line should be underway before the end of the year. And there are countless projects awaiting confirmation that could also be starting this year including the 700 East tower.
I will try to make it up to Milwaukee in Spring for a bike ride so I can get photos of everything under construction because there will be cranes everywhere.
Milwaukee - It's a big hole in the ground right now, but after this weekend, the Northwestern Mutual building could start taking shape. Contractors poured concrete on the foundation for the new building starting Friday night.
Cement trunks moved in and out of the site. They'll move 10,000 cubic yards of concrete - about the size of an NFL football field that's five feet thick.
"The concrete foundation walls and the whole tower can start to come out of the ground," Rick Schmidt, from CG Schmidt, said. "This is really step one in getting this whole tower going and getting it out of the ground so people can see it."
The first construction contracts for the downtown Milwaukee streetcar could be awarded in July, with heavy work on the system’s track and overhead wires set to begin in one year.
That prospective timeline puts the city on course to complete heavy construction on the downtown system in spring 2018 and, after a series of tests, begin service in July of that year, according to project consultants. The construction timeline for a streetcar spur to the downtown lakefront, with a stop in the proposed Couture apartment high-rise, has not been determined.
Engineers are moving the project through final design leading up to construction next year. Relocation of public utilities, including sewer and water lines, will be the first construction work to start for the streetcar, said Tom Clancy, project manager for The Concord Group. Those public utility contracts are to be awarded in July with construction starting in September, and being completed in late summer 2016.
The county and city of Milwaukee on Feb. 20 filed the lawsuit. It was an anticipated move after, 10 days earlier, the Wisconsin Supreme Court refused to take up the case. Hanging in the balance is the $122 million, 44-story Couture development, which will have 302 apartments in a tower atop a base with significant retail space and a public concourse that will include a streetcar station.
Bucks president Peter Feigin told a group of young professionals at a luncheon Thursday that the team needed to have a packaged plan on the arena done in time for consideration by the Joint Finance Committee. He said the franchise hoped to break ground on the arena in the fall.
This week, the Commercial Association of Realtors Wisconsin hosted a discussion about the arena and potential ancillary development. In general, Realtors involved in the office, retail, commercial and housing industries were bullish about potential new development near the new arena. One Realtor said he had been in contact with the heads of several companies who had expressed an interest in possibly moving their headquarters to sites near the proposed arena site.
The Bucks have targeted the site just north of the BMO Harris Bradley Center as the site for a new arena. Bucks officials also are targeting portions of the Park East corridor, as well as a city-owned parking ramp at the corner of N. 4th St. and W. Highland Blvd., for additional ancillary development.
A small sample of the many projects currently under construction in and around downtown Milwaukee. Sorry for the crappy quality, I'm not a photographer.
Update on some of the bigger Milwaukee projects...
Crane City
Full Map of Downtown Milwaukee Development
3 more towers could be rising by the end of this year and numerous infill projects could be joining the countless new construction/renovation projects already in progress. By Fall, the streetcar will be started and a new, 17,000-seat arena for the Bucks with $400 million in surrounding development could be breaking ground. Stay tuned...
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