Plans unveiled for first two buildings of nine-block downtown Kenosha redevelopment
As the first phase of a nine-block redevelopment of downtown Kenosha moves ahead, developers are proposing two apartment buildings with hundreds of units to get the project started.
Developer Cobalt Smith is planning a 10-story tower with 188 apartments, ground-floor retail and coworking, and seven townhomes, as well as a five-story apartment building with 158 units.
The two buildings would be the first in a planned $450 million redevelopment of downtown Kenosha that could add a total of 1,000 new housing units as well as retail, office buildings and a hotel over the next decade.
Cobalt Smith is a partnership between Milwaukee-based Cobalt Partners and Fond du Lac-based general contractor C.D. Smith. The city last year approved a development agreement to allow the firms to oversee the downtown redevelopment.
These first two apartment buildings are up for initial city review this week.
The proposed 10-story building would be built on a site kitty-corner from the city’s Harbor Park on the site of the existing LaMacchia Travel Agency at 618 55th St. The existing building would be razed to make way for the new building and an attached three-story parking garage.
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