7-story apartment plan pitched on east side
An investors group wants to build a seven-story apartment building overlooking Lake Michigan on Milwaukee’s east side.
E North LLC’s plan calls for 90 apartments, as well as internal parking, according to a new zoning change application filed with the Department of City Development.
It would be at the southwest corner of East North and North Summit avenues. The site is about one block west of the historic North Point Water Tower.
No other information about the proposal is available from the department.
Ed Lawton, a Madison attorney who represents E North, didn’t respond to a request for more information.
The building will feature apartments with a lot of amenities, said Randy Bryant, who controls the project site.
The design includes a wedge shape, with lots of glass, said Bryant, who declined to name the developer.
“It’s a beautiful building,” he said Tuesday. “It is not a cookie-cutter building.”
Bryant declined to provide more information prior to an upcoming community meeting about the proposal.
That meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. Feb. 12 at East Library, 2320 N. Cramer St., said Ald. Nik Kovac, whose district includes the project site.
Bryant owns several east side rental properties. They include a pair of twostory apartment buildings, each with four units, at 2231 and 2239 E. North Ave.
Those two parcels, along with two lots that now have two single-family homes, at 2275 and 2279 N. Summit Ave., make up the 20,000-square-foot development site.
Bryant has those two parcels under contract.
All four buildings would be demolished.
Those four parcels are separately zoned for single-family homes and duplexes, as well as a high-density multiunit residential development.
The new zoning would allow the combined site to accommodate the seven-story, 90-unit building. That change would require Common Council approval.
Kovac wants the new building’s design to activate North Avenue.
“We do not want a blank wall with parking behind it facing the sidewalk,” Kovac said.