Milwaukee Lowcountry on Water Street closes
Milwaukee Lowcountry on Water Street closes
Lowcountry restaurant on Milwaukee's Water Street closed for good. This comes just days after a strip club announced their temporary closure, and months after a bar shut down in May.
MILWAUKEE - Another business on Milwaukee's Water Street closed for good.
Lowcountry, a seafood restaurant, announced on Sunday it is saying goodbye.
A look online shows the business has positive reviews and a glance at the restaurant's window shows a sticker with an "A" health rating.
Imagine the confusion when customers looked at the door and saw a sign saying, "Thank you. Closed for good."
"Apparently, lately the lights have just been off," Milwaukee resident Robin Lamonte said.
Lamonte found out the news while heading there for dinner with friends.
"We were happy, we were ready to get a boil in or something," Lamonte said.
FOX6 News on scene updated the group while they were waiting outside.
"The sudden closure is kind of wild," Lamonte said.
Lowcountry announced the closure on social media but gave no explanation as to why. FOX6 went there in person, and the general manager said, "Business is not what it used to be."
Last week, the gentleman's club Silk Exotic announced it is temporarily closing its doors. The business said it is not abandoning the downtown area and would reassess in November.
Back in May, Duke's on Water shut down for good.
While Lowcountry did not go into specific details, Silk and Duke's cited violence and safety concerns in the area as reasons for closing.
Neighbor Nehemiah Brown said he thinks the increased underage crowd in the area causes problems.
"They do a lot of stupid stuff like fighting and all of that," Brown said.
As multiple businesses closed, either permanently or temporarily, in just over three months, people downtown said they hope more will not follow.
"I just hope it doesn't affect the development or the further development of this area," Lamonte said. "A lot of people come here to have a good time, and a lot of people come here to eat. There are a lot of good restaurants."
The district's alderman, Robert Bauman, told FOX6 he did not know why the business closed and has not received any communication from them.
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The Source: Information in this story was gathered from Robin Lamonte, Lowcountry social media announcements, the general manager of Lowcountry, Silk Exotic, Duke's on Water, Nehemiah Brown, Robert Bauman and FOX6 News reporting.