MILWAUKEE -- Milwaukee County officials plan to sell their last full block of Park East land in downtown Milwaukee to Wangard Partners Inc. for a $52 million development with apartments, retail space and a parking structure.
The development would be on the more than two-acre block bordered by North Water Street, North Broadway, East Ogden Street and North Milwaukee Street.
The Milwaukee developer this fall responded to the county’s call for development proposals for the land.
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According to the Milwaukee Business Journal, the outline of its development plans are similar to a proposal Wangard Partners submitted to Milwaukee County for the same land in 2013. The latest proposal, dated December 18th, has the same renderings by Eppstein Uhen Architects used in Wangard’s 2013 proposal. In 2013, the earlier proposal was rejected.
Wangard Partners' chief executive officer Stewart Wangard said the development is similar, but slightly larger than the 2013 plan. He declined to comment on details, the Milwaukee Business Journal says.
Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele released the following statement:
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