I'm very much in favor of preserving historic buildings and having social housing like this, but I'm not so sure I'm in favor of limiting such social housing to veterans as opposed to having a more mixed community.
I’m unhappy with any subsidy for this. There was no will to develop the parking lots around Miller Park for 20 years. If they had gotten developed – or if the massive pile of money the team owner has access to was simply used – there would be no justification for getting public money involved outside of any infrastructure improvements needed to support said development.
I forget, was this brought up at all during the discussions about Act 12 before it got passed? The prospect of another subsidy really feels like a bait-and-switch inside a law that already had so much poison inside it.
I feel like the whole “form a committee to study redevelopment of the parking lot” in particular is really evidently misleading… literally just meaningless words designed to sound good, but with no teeth behind them whatsoever.
In the bill, its literally 1 sentence… All it does is require the stadium district/brewers owner/city/county to write a report saying whether or not redevelopment is “feasible”… said report isnt even due for a full 2 years.
I didnt grow up in Milwaukee, but it was a relatively common occurrence for my un-airconditioned elementary school. Usually 1-3 days per year would get an early dismissal due to heat.
What a truly god-awful design. It’s like they hate the Square and want to kill it.
I don’t mean the overall style, I mean tearing down enjoyable, human-scaled buildings, and plopping down an automobile-scaled façade in the middle of a pedestrian-oriented area. The city government has already run surveys asking for suggestions on how to “activate” the space outside of the current museum, but it’s hopeless. You can’t “activate” a blank, stone wall. Replacing it with a blank, glass wall is not an improvement.
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