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UWM selects riverfront site for new dorm
Published October 2, 2008 - BizTimes Daily
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Real Estate Foundation announced that it has selected a site at the northwest corner of East North Avenue and North Cambridge Avenue, proposed by Milwaukee-based Mandel Group Inc., for a new 700-student dormitory.
The site is located on the opposite side of the Milwaukee River from the 475-student RiverView Residence Hall, which UWM opened in January. The site is a brownfield and was formerly the location of a Hometown gas station.
The dorm project will have three buildings with first-floor retail space along North Avenue and green space along the river.
The UWM Real Estate Foundation chose the site from a list of eight proposals that were narrowed down to three finalists. The other two finalists were the Prospect Mall and parking lot site proposed by Boulder Venture at the intersection of Ivanhoe Place and Kenilworth Place and a site proposed by Phelan Development LLC and Towne Investments at 1774 N. Farwell Ave.
Community meetings were held to discuss the proposed sites.
"I was inspired by the turnout at those meetings," said Alderman Nic Kovac. "As a community, we sent a strong message to the developers and to the university that we care about our neighborhoods, our river, our jobs base and our tax base. We made it clear that nothing is going to happen without our knowledge, input and cooperation."
UWM hopes the new dorm will be completed in 2010.
