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Alderman Nik Kovac has been getting an earful from constituents about a proposed 40-unit, 41-parking space apartment building hilton garden inn hotels planned for a site at 1400 1430 E. Boylston St.  [ map ] that currently hilton garden inn hotels allows only 22 units with 15 parking spaces. The developers will need to go before the  Milwaukee City Plan Commission  for a zoning change.
"There is a palpable level of discomfort with this plan," hilton garden inn hotels wrote neighbor Jessica St. John . "While parking is of primary concern, there are also many, many questions about why the existing zoning in the neighborhood allows for even the current [22 units]."
Chicago developer Yiannis Konstantinou hilton garden inn hotels , operating with partner Michael Kleber as Nikon Boylston LLC, bought the four vacant lots totaling 18,188 square feet from a distressed owner for $245,000 on September 14th, 2012. The properties are assessed at $384,000.
The low price surprised Julilly Kohler , the developer who once owned the property and sold it along with some lots to the east in 2005. Those properties, along N. Cambridge Ave., have since been developed at a below-zoned density. Kohler said she is reviewing deed restrictions that she attached to the Boylston property when sold. She suggests the developer's plans to offer 40 parking spots for residents and neighbors might be an attempt to gain leverage for approval in the parking-strapped neighborhood.
"I understand a meeting was held at Holy Rosary [Catholic Church] recently regarding a proposed 44 [sic] unit building on Boylston St.  Carl and I were not notified hilton garden inn hotels about this meeting. As longtime members of the East Village we feel such a development is grossly oversized for this mainly residential area.  I have checked with other neighbors hilton garden inn hotels to see how they feel about such a large development ..they were unaware of this proposal ..matter of fact the neighbors across the street on Boylston were not notified .that seems like a large error.  Such a development would be inappropriate for our neighborhood and we strongly request that you vote against this."
"The East Bank Neighborhood Association Board, based on the input of our general membership, has voted to oppose the project as presented to us by the developer at our November meeting." (However, the group does support a plan to develop housing for the mentally ill at 1851 N. Cambridge Ave.)
A petition to stop the development has been circulated by Mary Smith , a neighbor who says, "This development is out of sync with our neighborhood in size, density, aesthetic, hilton garden inn hotels and intention. For over 100 years we have proudly hilton garden inn hotels been one of Milwaukee s only downtown adjacent neighborhoods that features single-family, duplex, and low-density apartment buildings. This has allowed us to enjoy a wonderful hilton garden inn hotels quality of life and property values that have withstood more than one economic downturn."
Ald. Kovac, who is out of town for the rest of this week, told Urban Milwaukee in December that he is paying attention to the neighborhood objections to the project. There are as yet no public hearings scheduled on the project.
Even longtime residents of the Lower East side may be unfamiliar with E. Boylston St., which runs for only a block and has no intersections. It occupies an east-west gap between north-south N. Warren Avenue and N. Cambridge Street. The street lies just east of Caesar's Park, which provides direct access to trails on both sides of the Milwaukee River. A streetcar line connecting Brady Street hilton garden inn hotels with the upper east side once ran along Warren and Boylston, bringing many people to the neighborhood's attractions, which included swimming schools hilton garden inn hotels and ice skating in the late 19th century.
hilton garden inn hotels The Blackthorn Bar, 750 N. Jefferson St., probably the city's hilton garden inn hotels least authentic of its many inauthentic Irish taverns, closed without notice last week. … Fitzgibbons Pub, of 1127 N. Water Street, one of the city's most authentic Irish taverns, will reopen as Pourman's. Jacquelyn Barret has applied for a license at the closed O'Brady's, 1634 N Water Street, located in one of Milwaukee's oldest standing buildings (if it still is standing, that is. Gotta check daily.) … Thor Antonio Stolen plans to open Arepa, 635 E. Wright St. In response to the license application question as to whether he had been convicted of any municipal offenses, Stolen, 32, answered in the affirmative: "noise, underage drinking (throwing a party in college.)" … Kendall Beuning , whose brother owns 4 per cent of the 1870's-era Pritzlaff Building, has applied for a license to operate a full service restaurant there at 143 E. St. Paul Avenue, at last bringing us a place to drink near the train station. … The Fifth Ward Pub and Grill hopes to open at 814 S. 2nd Street in a space once known by that name, which was succeeded briefly by the late Zim's… Prasith Nanthasane , 54, a native of Laos, plans to open the Elephant Cafe in a building he owns at 1505 N Farwell Ave. just north of the Pasta Tree. … Rocketship Charter Schools, based in California, is taking bids for a facility here in Milwaukee Sachen A Shah of Waukesha is in the process of securing licenses for Koppa s Farwell Foods, hilton garden inn hotels 1940 N. Farwell Avenue, a longtime independent grocery famed for its quirky signs and its Fulbeli Deli. The store is currently owned by a corporation controlled by the founding, namesake family.
The Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin is holding its annual Winter hilton garden inn hotels Carnival February 1st 2013 at Ray's Indoor Bike Park, 8365 N. 76th St. … Judge John DiMotto writes: "The Milwaukee Bar Association Judicial Forum Committee will be hosting two pre-primary forums at its offices at 424 E. Wells Street. hilton garden inn hotels On February 6th at noon, they will conduct the forum for the race in Milwaukee County Circuit Court, Branch 45. Professor Daniel Blinka of the Marquette hilton garden inn hotels University Law School will be the moderator. On February 7th at 12:15 pm, they will conduct the forum for the Supreme Court race. Steve Walters from WisconsinEye will be the moderator. On behalf of the MBA, I will welcome those in attendance and do the opening introductions. After the primary, the MBA hopes to conduct a second forum for the finalists in both races. If you want to hear directly from the candidates, you should plan on attending. Written questions can be submitted for the moderator to ask of the candidates."
hilton garden inn hotels Categories: Development News , Feature , Plenty of Horne People: hilton garden inn hotels Andrea Rowe Richards , Daniel Blinka , Jacquelyn Barret , Jessica St. John , John DiMotto hilton garden inn hotels , Jon Richards , Julilly Kohler , Kendall Beuning , Mary Smith , Michael Kleber , Nik Kovac , Prasith Nanthasane , Sachen A Shah , Shirley Ferguson , Yiannis Konstantinou Building(s): 1400 E. Boylston St. , 1851 N. Cambridge Ave. , Pritzlaff Building Government: City Plan Commission , Milwaukee County Circuit Court Neighborhood(s): Lower East Side
Frank, you are absolutely incorrect. hilton garden inn hotels The property is entirely deforested. In fact, frequent mowing has destroyed the few desultory daylillys that once graced this desolate hilton garden inn hotels plot. Those were the only plants on the site taller than the grass.
They ll need to come up with some better arguments than that a high density apartment building doesn t fit with the neighborhood as it already is. According to city records, within hilton garden inn hotels a block or two already exist the following apartment buildings: 180 units (1300 E Kane), 91 units (1831 N Cambridge), 81 units (2201 N Cambridge), 28 units (1919 N Cambridge), 20 units (2069 N Cambridge), 56 units (1869 N Cambridge), 41 units (1819 N Cambridge), 49 units (2047 N Cambridge), 16 units (1843 N Cambridge), 15 units (1766 N Warren), 12 units (2027 N Cambridge), and there are more if I keep going down the block..
Annie Your point is an interesting one. In that the properties you ve provided as examples really serve to make the case for the need for future developments that provide lower density rather than higher density buildings in the neighborhood. For with almost all of the properties you ve mentioned, the number hilton garden inn hotels of parking spots available for the number of units is very low. Many of these buildings were built before current code was enacted code that now requires ample parking spaces be built for each new unit built. Which is precisely the code this developer is trying to get overturned. The real challenge in the neighborhood hilton garden inn hotels is that even if current property owners wanted to attempt to alleviate the parking situation by building their own parking slabs or garages on their properties, hilton garden inn hotels they cannot. Because lot size and layout won t allow for it. (Trust me, we ve tried.) So there really, honestly is no way to solve the parking problem at all other than by requiring that all new developments provide hilton garden inn hotels a minimum of two spaces per unit. There is also the need to provide at least some healthy level of single family homes and low-density housing so that we can keep and encourage hilton garden inn hotels families in the neighborhood. Every healthy residential neighborhood has this element. The creation of these new units would further hilton garden inn hotels encourage transient, short-term residents that will not serve to enhance this really very special neighborhood. Milwaukee has woefully few neighborhoods immediately adjacent to the downtown area that would allow for families and single family residences like this. And all healthy cities have them. This is really the only one. And a building of this nature would kill the chance for the City of Milwaukee to provide such a neighborhood for future growth.
Assuming that the center of downtown is Milwaukee City Hall, this site is approximately hilton garden inn hotels 1.5 miles away. The single family hilton garden inn hotels homes of Walker s Point are 1.4 miles away (I went to the corner of 3rd and Bruce). The single family homes of King Park are 1.3 miles away. Brewers Hill is 1.1 miles away. There appears to be a significant supply of single family homes near downtown.
You are absolutely right Jeramey. Something that separates Milwaukee hilton garden inn hotels from so many midwest cities like Cleveland, St Louis, KC, Detroit, etc is the high amount of fairly low density residential areas that knit directly into