Downtown Milwaukee Area Plan Update Kicks Off Billions of dollars in investment and thousands of new residential units later, Milwaukee is ready to update the plan for its downtown. March 4, 2021, 6am PST | James Brasuell | Jeramey Jannene reports on the initial push to update the Milwaukee Downtown Area Plan from the previous update approved in 2010. This would be third Downtown Plan update in as many decades, according to Jannene. Milwaukee Downtown, the area business improvement district, is providing $100,000 to fund the process, and the city is chipping in $50,000. A previous initia...