Developer revises Waukesha affordable housing proposal

Jan. 09, 2012

0 Comments

By Laurel Walker of the Journal Sentinel

Jan. 09, 2012 0

Waukesha - MSP Real Estate and Development Co. will bring revised plans for affordable apartments and a residential facility for seniors with dementia back to the Plan Commission on Wednesday.

The project would be located on 9.5 acres off Meadow Lane in Waukesha, immediately south of a Goodwill Industries building The company is seeking multi-family residential zoning for a 70-unit apartment building and a 36-unit "memory care" facility. It is also seeking site plan and architectural review and a conditional use permit for the senior residential facility.

In December the company had sought approval for 94 affordable housing apartments, but that number has been scaled back to 70, including 28 with one bedroom, 34 with two bedrooms and eight with three bedrooms. The height of the apartments was reduced from three stories to two.

The commission will also consider a request for a conditional use permit for a 15,000-square foot sports bar and table tennis center called Thumpers on the north side of Lincoln Ave. west of Les Paul Parkway, on the city's east side.

The Plan Commission meets at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall.

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.