Wednesday, July 18, 2012
The business district will be one of the voices heard at the July 30 public hearing. After the meeting, village officials will discuss rezoning the property and creating a tax incremental finance district.
The public will soon have an opportunity to voice their opinions about the Mandel Group's proposed luxury apartment development. The public hearing will be held at 6:30 p.m. on July 30 before the Village Board and the Community Development Authority. After the public hearing, a joint review board made up of Plan Commissioners and Architectural Review Commissioners will discuss the details of creating a tax incremental finance district at a meeting at 5 p.m. on Aug 6. The Mandel Group gave a brief presentation in front of the village's Plan Commission Tuesday night regarding their request to rezone the parking lots on the north end of Silver Spring Drive as a planned development district. The commission referred the rezoning petition to the…
Thursday, May 17, 2012
The four-story apartment proposal was introduced to two village committees this week, but two business district leaders say they should have had a seat at the table earlier on.
After seeing the proposal for a luxury apartment development in the Fox Bay parking lot, Whitefish Bay Plan Commissioners gave the concept its preliminary approval. The Plan Commission held a pre-petition conference with the developer, Mandel Group, Wednesday night. The conference, required by the village's planned development process, does not include a public hearing, but gives commissioners a chance to decide whether the general proposal should be further considered by the Village Board. "This is really intended to be a preliminary discussion with all of you," said Dick Lincoln, the company's senior vice president. The developers first publicly presented their plans at a Community Development Authority meeting Monday night. The …
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
The proposal from The Mandel Group would build three high-end apartment buildings in the lot spanning from Associated Bank to Starbucks without significantly reducing parking availability.
Whitefish Bay officials reacted favorably to a Milwaukee-area developer's plans to build a $27 million luxury apartment community in the parking lot behind the Fox Bay Cinema Monday night. The Mandel Group is well known for its estimated $825 million in high-end apartment and condominium developments in the Milwaukee area, such as Marine Terminal Lofts in the Third Ward, University Club Tower downtown, The North End on Water Street, and soon, LightHorse 4041 at Oakland Avenue and Kenmore Place in Shorewood. The developer unveiled its plans for Whitefish Bay in front of the village's Community Development Authority and Architectural Review Commission Monday night. The proposal calls for the construction of 103 high-end apartments in three …
Come on Already
1:36 pm on Monday, July 23, 2012
@Absolutelyfabulous Mandel has not purchased the forclosed lot they "have it under contract". The contract most likely states that they will only close on that land if they are approved to do this project by the Whitefish Bay Village Board. The devil is always in the details and words do matter. more ›