Janet, a Town of Brookfield resident, has lived in the Elmbrook area for nearly 40 years and is an avid gardener and volunteer. Her blog focuses on the city and town of Brookfield – past, present and future.
Under Construction
As we all know, a TIF district was created to help redevelop the Brookfield Square Mall and to develop the Fountain Square Mall.
The gas station and McDonalds on Moorland and Bluemound Roads are gone. Both will be fashioned into two-story buildings in keeping with Brookfield’s required facade for the city’s “Gateway” areas. When it reopens, McDonalds will no longer have its familiar golden arches. The powers that be even refused to allow an “M” etched into the second story glass.
What a contrast to Fountain Square at Main Street and Bluemound Road. A prized tenant, Fidelity Investments, has a lime-green banner around its first floor windows – from front to back. Until this week, a similar banner also extended around its second floor windows. I’m hoping now that permanent signage is on the building the lime-green banner will disappear. Quickly.
Green has never been a favorite color. Lime green is particularly offensive. Etched glass pales in comparison.
Now, let’s return to the three-block construction zone along Bluemound.
Here’s what a reader wrote:
“I just returned from a futile attempt to run into Boston Store on a Saturday afternoon. I must be nuts. What a mess.
I think the mayor, aldermen, city staff and engineers who keep insisting on more and more development should be required to drive down Bluemound Road, Moorland Road and into Brookfield Square every Saturday afternoon. I’ve got to believe these guys never go anywhere in Brookfield. They must hole up in their backyards.
They should look at what they are creating (I mean destroying). I never found a parking spot and it took me another 15 minutes to get out of there. “
Once the restaurants and other new businesses open, a parking structure like that at Mayfair will most likely be needed.
