About four years ago, New Land Development purchased properties at Kenilworth and Farwell Avenues on Milwaukee's East Side. Plans have now surfaced for this corner. They include a great-looking building of high end, one-room apartments and street side retail.
New Land Enterprises and Kindness Architecture have met with the immediate commercial property owners surrounding this corner that's just across from Ma Fisher's and the Kenilworth Building. The developers also have met with the general membership of the East Side Association and Business Improvement District board (Jeff Sherman is a board member).
Scott Kindness tells me that the duplexes on the corner will be razed and that "ideally they would like to break ground this spring, with a spring 2010 opening."
New Land is looking to mainly to building housing for the many young professionals who work at Columbia St. Mary's.
"The unit designs do not foster roommate situations," says Kindness. The units range from 560 to 850 square feet and are all studios and one-bedrooms.
There is no name for the development at this time.
A life-long and passionate community leader and Milwaukeean, Jeff Sherman is a co-founder of OnMilwaukee.
He grew up in Wauwatosa and graduated from Marquette University, as a Warrior. He holds an MBA from Cardinal Stritch University, and is the founding president of Young Professionals of Milwaukee (YPM)/Fuel Milwaukee.
Early in his career, Sherman was one of youngest members of the Greater Milwaukee Committee, and currently is involved in numerous civic and community groups - including board positions at The Wisconsin Center District, Wisconsin Club and Marcus Center for the Performing Arts. He's honored to have been named to The Business Journal's "30 under 30" and Milwaukee Magazine's "35 under 35" lists.
He owns a condo in Downtown and lives in greater Milwaukee with his wife Stephanie, his son, Jake, and daughter Pierce. He's a political, music, sports and news junkie and thinks, for what it's worth, that all new movies should be released in theaters, on demand, online and on DVD simultaneously.
He also thinks you should read OnMilwaukee each and every day.
