MILWAUKEE | MPAC Parking Garage Redevelopment | 613 FT | 55 Floors (a new tallest)
 

RENDERING REVEAL!!!!!


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Source: https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2024/07/2...-in-wisconsin/


Source: https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2024/07/2...-in-wisconsin/




now, this long-rumored project is still all very pie in the sky right now, but it's still cool to see imagery for what could possibly become a new tallest building for Milwaukee, if the stars align.

The developer still needs to finance and build the adjacent Edison development (on the left along the river in the first image above) before tackling this considerably bigger fish.

That’s really impressive. The shape reminds me a little of 940 N Michigan Avenue in Chicago.

that is a handsome looking postmodern design. Hope they keep it.

Yeah, the angles and sloping tops are reminiscent of One Magnificent Mile in Chicago, but that's actually one of Fazlur Kahn's famous "bundled tube" designs, where as this project appears to be 3 individual towers, likely to afford a phased construction schedule (not sure which phase the tallest tower would be).

Pretty pretty pretty good

I didn’t realize that One Mag Mile was a bundled tube design. I love that building.

Indeed!


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Great Project. Hope it comes to fruition

Gorgeous... MKE is on a roll!

Great looking project!

I love the render but am not sold on mass timber, and this would be the world's tallest. I would much prefer the same design with normal construction materials as opposed to wood.

Regardless of whether or not you are "sold" on it, mass timber towers are now a thing.

Milwaukee is already becoming a national leader in the building type, with the current tallest mass timber tower in the country, the 283' tall Ascent, completed two years ago. And the mass timber 362' tall Edison proposal, also in Milwaukee, is poised to eclipse that mark in a couple years. And should this 613' tall mass timber proposal ever get off the ground......


Like it or not, a mass timber tower might very well show up in a skyline near you in the coming years.

Absolutely love it; the design is great and unique. Hope it gets built.

Whew boy, that's an extremely good looking proposal!

I really like the design. But what I'm even more excited about is the potential of bring more residents and activity down to that area.

That’s neat looking skyscrapers. I hope they build it! :cheers:

I was gonna suggest Three First National. Either way, it's definitely giving early-80s SOM.

They should be congratulated for thinking big. We don't often see something this ambitious even on a full-block site, in any US city. The 80s had a lot of ambitious plans like this, but most were left unfinished after economic forces cut them short (Fountain Place in Dallas, etc).

I am curious how they will handle parking, though. Obviously Milwaukee doesn't have a rail system, and Uber/Lyft can replace short urban trips easily, but the tourists and suburbanites staying in the hotel, going to the Marcus Center etc will unfortunately still need a big-ass garage somewhere. Unless it's pushed underground, that suggests a big and sterile parking podium.

Looks good!

Awesome. Hope that it happens.

Marcus Center development proposals need redo, Bauman says. Citing Edison tower's work halt