Downtown Waukesha apartment project OK'd

Dec. 15, 2011
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By Laurel Walker of the Journal Sentinel

Dec. 15, 2011 0

Waukesha - The Plan Commission has given final approval to Kendal Lofts, a 42-apartment downtown project planned for the site of the vacant former O'Brien Photography building and an adjacent small business on W. Main St.

The project, which recently was awarded a variance so it could be built 25 feet from the Fox River, as opposed to the 75-foot minimum setback, would have three stories of one- and two-bedroom units with inside parking on the ground level.

The Plan Commission voted 5-1 Wednesday to approve the conditional use permit, required because the project offers no retail business on the ground level as is otherwise required. Ald. Joan Francouer voted against it.

In other business, the Plan Commission held over until next Wednesday a request of MSP Development Co. to rezone 9.5 acres on Meadow Lane near Willowood Drive on the city's northwest side.

The firm proposes to build a 34-unit memory care facility and a 94-unit apartment complex on the property.

In addition to the rezoning, which needs Common Council approval, the Plan Commission will consider a conditional use for the memory care facility and site plan and architecture approval of the apartments.

The commission will also take up final approval for the Woodman's grocery story on the closed Spancrete Industries property on Waukesha's east side.

About Laurel Walker
Laurel Walker covered local, school and county government for 20 years -- the last half of that at the Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel -- before she was named Waukesha County columnist in 1997. Today she writes about the people, places and events around metropolitan Milwaukee with a broad suburban focus. She was the youngest of nine children raised on a central Wisconsin farm before leaving the nest for journalism studies at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and a masters degree at the University of Oregon. She has spent the last half of her life in Waukesha County, where she and her husband raised two sons. Though she has a fondness for life in Waukesha, she eagerly partakes in the culture of the big city to the east and the recreation of the forests to the west. With sons in the arts, she has a special fondness for symphonic music concerts and art museums. She finds peace in a good book at a Northwoods getaway weekend, adventure in family visits to the east and west coasts, and satisfaction in a column well-written that reaches readers.
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