Officials Break Ground on Deer District Apartments

Fieldhouse Flats is poised to transform a vacant city block across the street from Fiserv Forum.

The $117 million development, which broke ground Thursday, will bring 269 units of workforce housing and an athletic facility for students at Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) to a parcel bound by W. McKinley Avenue, W. Juneau Avenue, N. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and N. Vel R. Phillips Avenue...

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Leo's notes: The project’s layered capital stack—including LIHTC equity, bonds, TIF, and institutional partnerships—shows how complex financing has become even for well-located workforce housing developments. Glad to see examples of housing development integrated into broader placemaking and economic development strategies.