[CPEO-BIF] Lakeshore Commons housing development, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Oak Creek plans neighborhood with 648 homes, rentals for brownfield site

By Nate Beck
Daily Reporter (WI)
December 9, 2020

The Milwaukee developer F Street Group is rolling out a plan to turn a 66-acre brownfield site on Lake Michigan into a residential neighborhood with more than 600 housing units in Oak Creek.
The project, called Lakeshore Commons, will mark the culmination of years of cleanup work at the city’s formerly industrialized lakefront area.

Oak Creek Mayor Dan Bukiewicz said F Street Group and the Milwaukee architect Rinka are planning to build 648 housing units - a mix of apartments and single-family homes - over the next decade. Work could begin as soon as mid-2021 on the project’s first phase, a 36-acre site that could have 300 housing units.

Bukiewicz said the cleanup of the industrialized area presented city officials with an opportunity to develop a project not often found in the Great Lakes area. For a model of what they are trying to do, city officials, F Street and Rinka looked to developments in Texas and Florida.

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For the entire article, see
https://dailyreporter.com/2020/12/09/oak-creek-plans-neighborhood-with-648-homes-rentals-for-brownfield-site/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
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