![]() ![]() Current Bus AccessĪs noted, Bayshore is located in Glendale, with a population of 12,728. Public funding for private development like this should contain a public amenity like accessible transit. Certainly Bayshore’s 52 acres could have provided an excellent location for a true transit plaza, making the place a genuine destination. Bus drivers on break must likewise take a hike into the mall for a rest room. Direct access to the stores requires walking through a parking lot, and an automobile ATM lane. Across the street, the sidewalk ends at the stop, with no sidewalk to the north, but a thorny patch of rose bushes instead. There is no sidewalk on the west side of the street, where the bus stop occupies a small pad just inches from busy I-43, and no connection to an express bus stop to the south. Port Washington Rd., have only very sketchy sidewalk access. With the planned expansion of a street grid within the development, and a “pedestrian-friendly” interior, Bayshore could easily have permitted Milwaukee County Transit System buses to run routes through the center, dropping off customers and workers at the doors to the mall’s rotunda and stores.Ĭurrently all bus stops are on the periphery of the property, including the terminus stops for routes 14, 15 and the Green Line. Bayshore could have served as an excellent example. “Transit Oriented Developments” have been cited as a major way to revitalize the thousands of failing malls across the country, especially mixed-use developments like this one. Thus it comes as a surprise that after a first failed 21st century effort to bring the mall into the present day, the study for the second request for taxpayer money did not take into account transit. ![]() By 2033, tax money would again flow to the city, and Bayshore’s tax assessment would rise. The former iPic would become an entertainment center. The former Sears space would become a home for Total Wine and Spirits. The new plan would modernize the storefronts, create new streets and pedestrian amenities. The city would then issue a new TID, for $37 million. AIG would pay off the $57 million TID, reduce mall space by 37 per cent, remodel other spaces, and create a better pedestrian experience in the mall. Yet Another Re-DoĮarlier this year, the City of Glendale announced an agreement with American International Group, Inc., once an investor in the project, and now the owner after the failure of the original developer. Too bad it was not done correctly the first time - as a Transit Oriented Development. This year, the assessed valuation of Bayshore was set at $65 million, down from $310 million the year before. More than 30 of the center’s commercial spaces are vacant, including Sprecher’s Restaurant and pub, which closed in January, Hom Wood Fired Grill, and Applebees, which closed on September 28th. ![]() The building housing Kohl’s, which remains in operation, is under separate ownership, although part of the mall. Today, the Sears building is demolished, the Boston Store is empty, the iPic is closed. The master plan called for Sears, Boston Store, an iPic cinema/entertainment complex and a Kohl’s to anchor the project. Financing included the state’s largest Tax Incremental Financing District - $57 million. In 2006 the Bayshore Mall, which dates to 1954, was converted into a “Town Center” in a $400 million renovation, resulting in 1.3 million square feet of office and retail space along with 113 apartments and 4,442 parking spaces on the 52-acre property. Bayshore Town Center redevelopment rendering. ![]()
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