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BUILDING BLOCKS: BRIX apartment lofts
By: Matt Taub, [email protected]//June 3, 2015//
Project: BRIX apartment lofts (formerly Florida Lofts)
Address: 408 W. Florida St., Milwaukee
Cost: $16 million
Size: 200,000 square feet
Start date: Fall 2014
Estimated completion date: Summer 2015
Owner: Florida Lofts LLC
Developer: Hovde Properties
Lead contractor: J.H. Findorff & Son
Lead architect: The Kubala Washatko Architects
Lead engineer: The Matrix Group (mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection); Pierce Engineers (structural); R.A. Smith National (civil)
Number of workers employed: 164 temporary construction jobs and 76 estimated permanent jobs
Project challenge: Adaptive re-use of an historic seven-story (plus full basement) warehouse located within the Walker’s Point neighborhood of Milwaukee.
Significance to the region: The mixed-use redevelopment will include 98 loft-style apartments, an 8,000-square-foot restaurant space, 10,000 square feet of retail space, and two levels of structured parking with a green roof plaza.
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