Sixty-eighth and Wells would have been a nice place for someone to live. But the neighborhood would have none of it. Oh the horror of it all...four or five condos with five or six new cars parking in its private lot.

Now, instead. they get still another overpriced "sustainable, earth-friendly, etc., etc." coffee joint, a street full of Priuses, bicycles and Smart Cars, and holier-than-thous sipping five dollar lattes, plotting their next capitol invasion and clucking about the social insignificance of the average Wal-Mart shopper.

Leaving your social commentary aside Dick, I agree that this development is likely to make this intersection another Tosa traffic nightmare. But I can walk there and avoid driving through 92nd and North....

I am looking forward to the new coffee shop with in walking distance, It's a better choice than the other few plans the site has had over the years.

Dicks Deli speaks the truth. If those neighbors thought that a condo developement would generate massive traffic propblems( What a joke!), wait till they get a sample of this traffic! They will be wishing for the 16 unit condo plan!

@H.E.Pennypacker

You are incorrect in your pejoratively phrased assumption regarding "geezers" and "no property tax spending".

The proposed development was a $2.5 Million condo with parking for its eight units, fully tax-paying. Its residents may or may not have been seniors, but they would be able to pay the developer his $2.5MM plus a reasonable profit, which translates (at only a 10% mark-on, 9% gross profit on sales, for for the developer) to 2.75MM or about $285,000 per unit, which should yield at least $6,000 each ($48,000 total) tax revenue, annually. Regardless of age, anyone able to spent nearly three big ones and six grand a year on housing, is unlikely to be living solely on Social Security.

What is Alterra paying in property tax?

Oh never mind, it's a done deal. I'll just watch the traffic from the park bench at 68th and The Avenue, and sip my better quality, $1.06, 20 oz. McDonald's java.

The condos are water over the dam; let's let that go and move forward. Many events conspired to cause the condo project never to happen. I'd focus on what is happening over on 104th and North Avenue in Wauwatosa. A four-story office building has been torn down with no word on what, if anything, will go on that site. That does not bode well for either Mayfair or the City of Wauwatosa. And how is Wauwatosa progressing on development of the site called the Burleigh Triangle? Or was that the Bermuda Triangle with an unkempt appearance and the signs of blight for the community?

I am concerned with the impact this may have on other businesses, such as La Tarte right across the street. How many coffee shops does Tosa need?

I am going to bet that La Tarte will busier than ever. That's what happens when you bring in over 500 new people into the area per day.