Plus: Conagra closing Milwaukee plant and logistics company moving to Bay View. By Jeramey Jannene - Jan 31st, 2021 06:27 pm //end headline wrapper ?>The Public Service Building in August 2020. Photo by Jeramey Jannene.
Most downtown workers will never know that the system they rely on to heat their workplace flooded in 2020. But they will pay for at least some of the over $60 million in damage.
On May 18, the We Energies steam tunnel system, which delivers steam heat from the Valley Power Plant to a number of downtown buildings, flooded following a significant rainstorm.
Millions of gallons of water poured into the tunnel system. The surge overwhelmed pumps, cut off steam access to half of the system’s 400 customers and damaged buildings. By chance, the building that suffered the most damage was We Energies’ own headquarters, the Public Service Building at 231 W. Michigan St.
Alonzo Robinson was a trailblazing architect By Jeramey Jannene - Jan 28th, 2021 03:27 pm //end headline wrapper ?>Milwaukee Fire Department headquarters, 711 W. Wells St. Photo by Jeramey Jannene.
The Milwaukee Fire Department Administration Building, an unassuming three-story building at 711 W. Wells St., will soon be named after its designer,
Alonzo Robinson. The change will honor the first Black architect practicing in Milwaukee and Wisconsin.
The Common Council is advancing a proposal, led by council president
Cavalier Johnson, to assign the name “Alonzo Robinson Milwaukee Fire Department Administration Building” to the structure, completed in 1961. The Public Works Committee unanimously endorsed the change on Wednesday. The third level is used for MFD administration with an active fire station on the first two levels.