The base of the 46-story Couture was the site of great celebration on Thursday morning, as dozens of mass transit boosters, city and county officials, and the apartment tower’s developer, Rick Barrett, gathered to mark the opening of the structure’s long anticipated travel concourse and the full launch of The Hop’s Lakefront Line.
Recently, my friend Meaghan Heinrich - of the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music - asked if I knew what the song was engraved into a concrete wall at the I-794 freeway ramp just outside the Summerfest grounds. I said, I didn t know it, but maybe if she hummed it for me.
Milwaukee’s Department of City Development and Milwaukee Downtown, BID #21 released draft recommendations of a new downtown area plan entitled, “Connec+ing MKE: Downtown Plan 2040."