Monday, May 13, 2013
Developers suspended plans for a 52-feet high apartment building on Underwood Avenue after failing to reach a negotiation for tax incremental financing with the city.
Apartments that were once planned for the former Wauwatosa Fire Station No. 1 site on Underwood Avenue have been suspended by the developer, reported the Business Journal. The proposal of a four story and 52-feet high apartment building adjacent to residential properties brought much outcry from residents who accused the developers, Sean Phelan of Phelan Development and Blair Williams of WiRED Properties, of trying to squeeze every dime of profit out of the project without regard to the character of the surroundings. The developer and the city were negotiating a potential tax incremental financing for the $7.5 million project but the city wasn't fond a TIF financing. The 36-apartment building would have been the tallest building in the …
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Shoppers won't know they're not in brand new stores, developer says as reconstruction commences on retail center built on the shell of vacated warehouses to house Nordstrom Rack and other retailers.
A new and long-awaited chapter in the story of the Burleigh Triangle opened last week with the official groundbreaking leading to its new life as The Mayfair Collection. While the work is only beginning, the course is set for an opening of the upscale retail center in the summer of 2014, said Tim Blum, executive vice president of HSA Commercial, developer of the project. The first, $47 million phase of a redevelopment of about 70 vacated acres at Burleigh Street and U.S. Hwy 45, will create 270,000 square feet of retail space. Already on board and "in store" for shoppers are Nordstrom Rack, Dick's Sporting Goods and ULTA, a cosmetics outlet. Blum said HSA has several more tenants lined up but not quite ready for prime time. "Within the …
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N 112th St & W Burleigh St, Milwaukee, WI
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Monday, April 22, 2013
The DQ franchise was planning to close and Wing Stop was planning to come in. But now the latter is out, the former might still be in, and property owner is weighing his options.
A fast-food chicken-wing restaurant won't be coming to the East Tosa business district, citing a negative reception in the neighborhood and from the city. But Dairy Queen, the old-line fast-food establishment that planned to close and make way for it, might instead try to stay. Wing Stop has pulled out of plans to occupy the property at 6520 W. North Ave., the property owner says, but his current tenant is now rethinking his plans to give up his Dairy Queen franchise and depart. In the meantime, though, landlord Jerry Mehring listed the property for sale – although he's not feeling pressured to sell now that DQ isn't pressing to leave. Mehring, who spoke to Wauwatosa Patch from Honolulu, where he and his family were celebrating his …
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Dairy Queen
6520 W North Ave, Wauwatosa, WI
May elect to stay on North Avenue
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Friday, April 19, 2013
Former North Avenue sports bar transformed into a classy, North Woodsy, Quebecois kind of place, with art on the walls and game on the menu. Shepherd's is open now.
Pere Marquette would be proud. Wauwatosa is home to the Milwaukee area's newest French Canadian dining spot. Shepherd's reopens Friday night, but it's nothing like the Shepherd's you knew – if you knew it at all. Formerly a sports bar festooned with memorabilia, Shepherd's, 6715 W. North Ave., was bought over the winter by Marty Beaudoin, owner of the Red Dot on Milwaukee's east side, and transformed into a casually up-scale restaurant and lounge. It doesn't look any different on the outside – yet – but inside is another story. The walls have been stripped to the brick and building tile, and fine art hangs where sports posters once did. Suspended ceiling – gone. Now, it goes all the way up, and features some nice exposed beams. Sconce …
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-87.996457
Shepherd's Sports Bar
6715 W North Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Now open for business
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Thursday, April 11, 2013
Server slipped up when a regular customer with a deal to have her card account automatically reloaded found that it hadn't been – and Mo's managers found there was a shady reason for that.
A 28-year-old Greenfield man has been charged with embezzling funds from his employer by using the business' computer system to create fraudulent gift cards, according to a criminal complaint. Adam C. Podkomerksi was charged April 1 in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with three counts of theft by embezzlement of less than $2,500, a Class A misdemeanor punishable by up to nine months in jail. It appears from the evidence in the complaint that Podkomerski had kept up a ruse for more than six months by creating phony gift cards from time to time but not using them for large withdrawals at any one time, making the transactions less noticeable. He slipped up, according to his bosses, the police and prosecutors, when he put money on a phony card…
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Richfield, northwest of Milwaukee, has approved a ban on fast-food restaurants in certain areas.
A community outside Wauwatosa has joined the movement to restrict chain restaurants. Richfield's planning commission voted last week to ban construction of new fast-food restaurants near large residential areas, reported the Associated Press. Richfield is northwest of Milwaukee near West Bend. A proposed zoning amendment in Wauwatosa calls for the restriction or prohibition of chain restaurants in East Tosa. Under the amendment, the city would be able to turn away such restaurants in the stretch of North Avenue from 60th Street to 76th Street (Wauwatosa Avenue). The Wauwatosa Common Council is expected to make a decision on the amendment later this month April. A ban on fast-food restaurants was enacted in Sister Bay in 2010, reported the …
Monday, April 8, 2013
With many stores closing – including one just on the Brookfield side of Tosa's boundary – the shop at Blue Mound and Hwy. 100 will remain open but as a Peet's Coffee and Tea store.
If you enjoyed Caribou Coffee as an alternative to other chain coffee shops, you will be out of luck as of April 14 in Brookfield but OK in Wauwatosa – if you don't mind a change of name. The two stores in Brookfield, at 17335 W. Blue Mound Road and 12455 W. Capitol Drive at the border of Wauwatosa, will be closing as of noon on Sunday, April 14, according to store employees. The Wauwatosa location at Blue Mound Road and Highway 100 will stay open, but will become a Peet's Coffee and Tea. The Peet's chain was founded in 1966 in Berkeley, CA, and has mainly operated stores on the West Coast. The decision relates to a corporate acquisition of Caribou by Joh. A. Benckiser Group (JAB) in December 2012. The same company also acquired Peet's …
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Caribou Coffee Company
418 N Mayfair Rd, Wauwatosa, WI
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Village development contingencies are turned around, with a recessed fourth story again under consideration but no application for tax-incremental financing.
Negotiations will continue toward finding a way to redevelop the city-owned former firehouse lot in the Village, but a new set of parameters emerged Monday after a closed session of the Community Development Authority. After earlier rejecting a four-story mixed-use development plan in favor of three stories to satisfy the concerns of neighbors, a fourth story is now back on the table as an option – but only if the upper story is set back so that it is less visible to neighbors. And after also indicating earlier that limited tax-incremental financing through the city was a possibility to help fill a gap in the project's finance plan, the authority now says no TIF funding should involved. With little to no appetite shown by the Common …
Friday, April 5, 2013
Don't let your dog go to the dogs. There's a lot of love lost in bad pet food, and if you care about your pet, you'll feed it the way you'd want to eat.
A few weeks ago, two shops opened in the same small retail center on the west edge of Wauwatosa, neither knowing the other was coming. One, Purr Tosa, is all about cats. The other, Bone Appetit, is gone to the dogs. Thursday, we featured Purr Tosa – only because it was slightly first. Today, we bring you... Bone Appetit. Amy and Luke Crow do love their pugs. And Amy had been experimenting with all-natural treats for her pets for some time. But when their pugs became overweight and began to sicken, they really began to focus on their dogs' diets. "One of our pugs got overweight and started to have an eye issue," Luke said, "and we started feeding it a natural, holistic diet, and it cleared up in about a week." "There's so much filler in …
Thursday, April 4, 2013
When a cat store and a dog store suddenly open next to one another, something wild is going on in Tosa. Today, it's the cats' meow.
In a small retail center on the west edge of Wauwatosa, two businesses opened within a couple of weeks of one another. Neither knew the other was coming. One, Purr Tosa, is a boutique for feline fanciers. The other, Bone Appetit, caters to keepers of canines. It's the perfect pet corner. Today, it's all about the cats. Tomorrow, we go to the dogs. Amy Dedow loves cats and always has. She has dogs, too. She's an equal opportunity animal lover. But when the energetic and emotional pull and drain of a career in gerontology began to get to her, she began to ask herself what she really wanted to do with the heart of her life. And so did her daughter. "She asked me, 'Mom, what would you really want to do?'" Dedow said. "And I thought about that…
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Purr-Tosa
12201 W North Ave, Wauwatosa, WI
Cat boutique is open next to... a dog boutique....
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Getitright
9:43 am on Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Furthermore, the most 'whining' seemed to be coming from Pete Donegan and NOT because he was protecting his constituents as he would have you believe. His only concern seemed to be WHO was doing the project and NOT what they were actually doing. Had his buddy been given the opportunity to develop that corner it would have been 2 blocks long and five stories high! more ›