Plus: A rundown of the week s real estate news. By Jeramey Jannene - Jan 17th, 2021 03:13 pm //end headline wrapper ?>Development site owned by Marquette University (700 Lofts at left). Photo by Jeramey Jannene.
In 2012, an Urban Milwaukee article described how two new apartment buildings would bring activity to two dead zones at the edge of Downtown.
One of those complexes, the 700 Lofts, was proposed for a pair of underutilized buildings at the corner of W. Michigan St. and N. James Lovell St. Bear Development completed the 49-unit, affordable housing project in the ensuing years.
But the dead zone didn’t disappear, largely because a multi-block project proposed across the street by Marquette University didn’t move forward.