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Downtown Milwaukee is the central business district of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. [2] The economic and symbolic center of the city and the Milwaukee metropolitan area, it is Milwaukee's oldest district and home to many of region's cultural, financial educational and historical landmarks including Milwaukee City Hall, Fiserv Forum and the Milwaukee Art Museum.
The main north–south arterial streets - Holton Street and Humboldt Boulevard - connect Riverwest to the downtown area, the lower East Side (specifically Brady Street), and suburban Shorewood. Along with those streets, Locust, Center, and Burleigh Streets are the major east–west corridors with cafes, bars, and shops where people congregate.
Many of the skywalks in Milwaukee were constructed during the 1980s. The mayor at the time, John Norquist, believed that the skywalks would be bad for retail businesses since they would remove pedestrians from street-level. [1] At some time in the 1990s, a committee was created to review the designs of any new skywalks. [1]
By 1924, the boundaries of the City of Milwaukee were extended west to North 60th Street. The current set of map boundaries was established by the neighborhood association.
Despite Milwaukee's efforts to eliminate duplicate street names, the Laytons aren't the only repeaters on city maps. There's the Washingtons (street, on the south side, and boulevard, on the west ...
Downtown business interests, as well as officials from St. Francis, Cudahy and South Milwaukee, fear removing part of I-794 would clog Michigan Street and other nearby roads and greatly lengthen ...
The shopping center was named after a bustling merchant street during the 19th century, Grand Avenue (the portion of the present day Wisconsin Avenue west of the Milwaukee River). A main portion of The Shops of Grand Avenue encompasses the former Plankinton Arcade with many of its original features still intact including the statue of John ...
Later in 2010, Erie Street Plaza, a small park and public space built on a former parking lot, opened on the southern edge of the neighborhood, near the confluence of the Milwaukee River and Kinnickinnic River. [6] The Hop began service in 2018, connecting the neighborhood to Downtown Milwaukee to the Milwaukee Intermodal Station.