Oak Creek Acquired 46.7 Acres of Near-Lakefront Property
Oak Creek is purchasing land near the lakefront, more than doubling the size of city-owned parcels abutting Lake Michigan.
However, it's unclear what the city plans to do with it.
“Right now, we do not know what the future land use of the property (will be), and there won’t be any immediate development,” City Administrator Andrew Vickers said, adding the city will be conducting "due diligence" on the parcel.
A huge Drexel Avenue streetscaping project could highlight Oak Creek as a "city on the lake"...
A wave of light could flow down Drexel Avenue in Oak Creek along new walls, plantings and past freshly planted trees as part of a new streetscaping concept designed to highlight the city's proximity to Lake Michigan.
An engineering and consulting firm based in Milwaukee, presented a conceptual streetscape design to the Oak Creek planning commission. The goal of the plan, which reaches from Ikea Way to Howell Avenue, is to “re-envision the current existing condition of Drexel Avenue. The plan made use of this and tried to encapsulate elements of Oak Creek’s Lake Vista Park design into the streetscaping.
