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Developer Rick Barrett is excited, greeting first construction equipment arriving on site. By Jeramey Jannene - May 11th, 2021 11:51 am //end headline wrapper ?>Rick Barrett at The Couture construction site. Photo by Jeramey Jannene.
So much so that as construction starts on the 44-story, 322-unit The Couture tower, he’s talking about developing an even bigger building. The 44-story apartment tower will be the tallest residential building in the state. He would like to one day build the tallest building of any kind.
Barrett held court on the project site, 909 E. Michigan St., Tuesday morning as construction equipment from J.H. Findorff & Son was unloaded around him.
Wisconsin’s tallest housing tower, The Couture, gets underway in Milwaukee
Officials gather on Tuesday for a groundbreaking ceremony at the site of the Couture project, near where Lincoln Memorial Drive meets East Michigan Avenue, in downtown Milwaukee. Work is finally getting underway on the long-planned 44-story residential tower, a project that has been on the books for nearly a decade. (Staff photo by Nate Beck)
Crews formally broke ground on Tuesday on the Couture high-rise project, a 44-story tower that will eventually overlook Lake Michigan in downtown Milwaukee after being in the works for nearly a decade.
The ceremony came after the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced last week that it had put the finishing touches on a $104.7 million construction loan and guarantee for the $188 million project the largest deal of its kind for the agency’s Midwest region since 2000.
Construction begins on Milwaukee skyscraper
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MILWAUKEE (WDJT) A new skyscraper and transit plaza will soon be near Milwaukee’s lakefront. After nine years, construction began on “The Couture” Tuesday, May 11, right across from the Summerfest grounds.
It’ll be about three years before all of the high-rise is complete. One of the developers called it a monumental day.
“It’s a project that says “Milwaukee is on the rise,” said Rick Barrett, Barrett Lo Visionary Development. “Skyscrapers, by their very nature, are the ultimate sign of progress in any given city. A 44-story high rise in Milwaukee, at this location is meaningful.”
A County Opinion on City Legal Dispute?
Dispute between council and City Attorney gets ever stranger, as committee requests county corp counsel s opinion. By Jeramey Jannene - May 10th, 2021 04:57 pm //end headline wrapper ?>The Couture Rendering. Rendering by RINKA.
Construction on the 44-story The Couture apartment tower is getting started, but the fight that emerged on a last-minute adjustment isn’t over.
When developer Barrett Lo Visionary Development needed a liability shield added to the $19.5 million city financing agreement to satisfy investors, the Department of City Development was poised to grant it in exchange for a $1.41 million personal guarantee for a portion of a federal streetcar grant that funds a line that will run through the base of the building.