Protected bike lanes, RiverWalk murals and designs to improve King Drive and Pere Marquette Park would be funded with $6.4 million generated by property tax revenue from newer Milwaukee developments planned for city officials.
The two proposals would change the tax increment financing districts associated with The Brewery, the mixed-use development in the former Pabst Brewing Co. downtown complex, and Kinetik Apartments near Zillman Park in Bay View. Both require approval from the Common Council.
The downtown financing district would spend $4.9 million on public improvements near The Brewery.
These include expanding protected bike lanes on West Highland Avenue from North Sixth Street to North 18th Street; redesigning King Drive with wider sidewalks and other features between West McKinley Avenue and West Wisconsin Avenue; possible improvements to Pere Marquette Park, including a beer garden; medians, roundabouts and other traffic calming measures, and RiverWalk murals.
Bay View’s funding district proposal would spend $1.5 million for a protected bike lane along Kinnickinnic Avenue from Maple Street to Becher Street, and along Bay Street from Becher Street to Lincoln Avenue.
That would create connections between the city’s KK River Trail and Milwaukee County’s Oak Leaf Trail.
Both changes were approved Thursday by the city redevelopment authority board.
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This article originally appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Milwaukee to get more protected bike lanes and murals under new plan
