Third Ward apartment project to add 60 units
Joseph Property firm gets review board approval
A new apartment building proposed for Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward would add 60 high-end units to that neighborhood’s growing housing stock.
The six-story building would be constructed on two adjacent parking lots, at 431 E. St. Paul Ave. and 317-323 N. Jefferson St.
It would include about 3,500 square feet of street-level commercial space, with a possible mezzanine level, at the southwest corner of East St. Paul Avenue and North Jefferson Street.
Joseph Property Development LLC’s proposal was approved Wednesday by the Historic Third Ward Architectural Review Board.
The firm hopes to begin construction by the end of this year, said owner Rob-
ert Joseph. The apartments, ranging from one to three bedrooms, would be completed by the end of 2019.
The building would include 76 parking spaces, most of them within an enclosed parking structure.
Other features include a fourthfloor outdoor deck above the parking structure.
It would be the latest in a series of new apartment buildings in the Third Ward.
Three projects were completed in 2017: Mandel Group Inc.’s 132-unit Domus, 441 E. Erie St.; the 31-unit Atelier, developed by HKS Holdings LLC, at 336 N. Milwaukee St.; and Lindsey Bovinet’s 14-unit Broadway Market Lofts, 325-331 N. Broadway.
Domus was newly built, while Atelier and Broadway Market Lofts were historic conversions.
Joseph Property Development is completing its conversion of the former Jennaro Bros. produce warehouse, 322 N. Broadway, into streetlevel restaurant space and upper-floor offices.
The firm’s other Third Ward projects include the 30-unit Chicago Street Lofts, 200 N. Water St., which opened in 2014 in a converted historic building.
That apartment building also has offices that are leased to advertising and marketing firm Hoffman York, which moved there in 2016.
Joseph’s other Third Ward apartment buildings include Jackson Square, 159 N. Jackson St., and Riverview Lofts, a historic conversion at 249 N. Water St.
The firm also has converted two historic neighborhood buildings into condos: Lofts on Broadway, 191 N. Broadway, and Warehouse 525, 525 E. Chicago St.
Joseph’s Third Ward commercial projects include 301 Commission Row, a historic conversion with retail and office space at 301-315 N. Broadway. It’s anchored by an Anthropologie store.