Bay View projects on chopping block (UPDATE)

Published: December 29, 2009
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By Sean Ryan
A Milwaukee alderman wants the city to reject seven redevelopment proposals for a vacant lot in Bay View.
That includes a $39.5 million development plan submitted by the Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee, which a panel of judges selected by the city chose as the best of the seven responses to the [...]

Alderman: Go green or go away

Published: November 5, 2009
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By Sean Ryan
sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com
Citywide Development LLC is the first private developer in Bay View to test a local alderman’s demand for green construction.
Tony Zielinski, the alderman representing Milwaukee’s Bay View neighborhood, refuses to support project plans unless they require at least half of a new building’s energy come from renewable or on-site sources. He is asking [...]

Hide House developer seeks local support

Published: July 15, 2009
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Sean Ryan
sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com
A developer is trying to gain the trust of people who say the Hide House project threatens the neighborhood’s peace but is getting rammed through Milwaukee City Hall anyway.
General Capital Group LLP, Milwaukee, wants to tear down a part of the former tannery, now called the Hide House, and develop 60 apartments reserved [...]

Hide House history prompts split decision

Published: June 16, 2009
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Sean Ryan
sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com
State and Milwaukee preservation experts disagree over whether the Hide House in Milwaukee’s Bay View neighborhood has any historic significance.
The Hide House is a 200,000-square-foot complex that started out as a metal stove and bed factory in 1898 and was slowly built up by a rotating cast of industrial tenants. The last major [...]

Bay View pushes for disclosure on development

Published: June 8, 2009
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Sean Ryan
sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com

Bay View residents want the skinny on development proposals submitted for a former Army Reserve property in their Milwaukee neighborhood.
They’re not likely to get it before the project is awarded to a developer.
The Milwaukee Department of City Development’s front-runner for the project is the Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee’s Eco Bay proposal [...]

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