Spaces; New Condo Tower Brings Height You Won't Hate

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Milwaukeeans have a love/hate relationship with tall buildings. We bemoan our vertically challenged skyline and covet the soaring towers of Chicago and Manhattan. But almost any time someone here proposes a tall building outside the central business district - even a building that by big-city standards isn't terribly tall - the old not-in-my-backyard hackles go up. Out of character, out of scale, we're not Chicago, there goes the neighborhood - well, you know the litany.

This nervousness can be justified when a tall building makes no concessions to its surroundings. But height alone is not something to be feared. It's a sign of a vibrant real-estate market. And it is the way hemmed-in cities like Milwaukee grow and reinvent themselves in the fight against sprawl. What matters more than lankiness is how we experience a building at the street level.

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Spaces; New Condo Tower Brings Height You Won't Hate

Case in point: The new University Club Tower, 825 N. Prospect Ave., a 36-story condo spire just south of E. Kilbourn Ave. Construction won't be complete until late summer or early fall. But even now, t...

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