The current museum is more than twice the size of the new building, which kind of bummed me out a little. It sounds like the new structure will be more efficient, though. The bulk of the collections at the current museum are used for research and are not on display but all those collections are now going to be visible from the exhibit floors so that the visitors can see them. I'm excited to see what's happening, next.
"will be served by clean diesel buses until the batteries have been replaced"? Somebody invented a way of powering a diesel bus without burning diesel?
Going to Pius in the 90s, all of the windows were open after it started getting warm outside (since k12 schools don't seem to ever have AC). I could remember the constant sound practice over at the Milwaukee Mile. It would be neat to bring that back.
The county has a hell of a lot of "deferred maintenance" that has piled up since 2002. $31.6M won't even put a dent in it but hopefully, they can deal with the worst of it.
I remember meeting someone at the gate there as a kid (very pre-9/11) and remembering that I had a pocket knife on me. The security guy let me through with it because the blade was shorter than his thumb. These days, I have a backpack that is strictly used only for air travel and when I go to the airport, I don't even bring pocket change with me.
I have a single-family home in Glendale and I think that I would like to switch to a condo at some point just so I have less of a reason to be around all of the time. I like to travel and with winters in Wisconsin getting colder and my desire to be cold decreasing with each polar vortex, I figured that renting a place in Mexico for 2-3mo every year might be nice. It's harder to do that when you have to maintain a SFH while you are away.
I was working on the website for the Mandel Group around 2012. At the time, they were transitioning from building mostly condo developments to building nothing but apartment developments. I was told that if a developer builds a 300-unit condo development, you will have folks who buy before the building is completed, but half of those units could be on the market for years. Needing to sit on ~$30mil worth of inventory could keep them from being able to build the next development. If they build apartments instead, they can rent them out right away and start on the next project.
More housing is always better than less housing. Something tells me that these are going to be "Luxury Apartments" though (priced at something like $2500/mo) and folks who are downsizing will willingly pay it because only 25 total condo units have been built in Milwaukee since 2011. We need more housing to drive down costs but we need more housing in more categories (market-rate apartments, luxury apartments, and especially condos).