What Should Be Built on the Old Riverbrook/Pig 'n Whistle Property?

Anne April 13, 2012 at 02:41 pm

A new Pig 'N Whistle.

CowDung April 13, 2012 at 02:47 pm

I think Shorewood really needs another hair salon...

Vicki Bennett April 13, 2012 at 03:24 pm

Anything but more apartment or condos!!!

CowDung April 13, 2012 at 03:25 pm

Including senior housing?

CowDung April 13, 2012 at 03:48 pm

Perhaps we need a 'community gathering place', since the book co-op is gone...

Bob McBride April 13, 2012 at 07:55 pm

How about a 20 story complex that includes on the ground floor a flower shop, a coffee shop, a hair dresser, a smaller version of the Pig & Whistle and a book co-op? Upper floors occupied by a combination of apartments, condos and senior living. Total off street parking - approximately 20 spaces. And to top it off, a drive-up mailbox that you can only approach by pulling into traffic coming from the opposite direction.

CowDung April 13, 2012 at 07:58 pm

I like it. You should definitely run for village board...

Jay Sykes April 13, 2012 at 08:14 pm

WHAT....no gas station with leaky tanks...

Absolutelyfabulous April 13, 2012 at 08:18 pm

Why build when you can buy. Citgo is for sale and it is a showcase property. They might have forgot to mention a few details in the listing.
http://www.showcase.com/property/1602-1604-E-Capitol-Drive/Milwaukee/Wisconsin/1270433

maurice johnson April 14, 2012 at 12:42 pm

This about sums up the loser comments on Patch. So the question is " What would you build?" Rather than forward one constructive idea (hint-they don't have one) they put forth their vitriol in the form of ridicule. Several of the posters are not residents and Clinga.... I mean Cow Dung is always around for the put down. Sad.

Jenny Heyden April 14, 2012 at 01:02 pm

I worry that housing that is there is a little bit of a disaster, I think largely because of the location. The housing that is there is not exactly showing up in our Shorewood ads.

Jenny Heyden April 14, 2012 at 01:04 pm

Sorry, Maurice, that wasn't exactly a productive comment. How about another vote for a Pig 'n Whistle. I love the idea of a meeting ground for East/West relations. i miss having a low-key spot besides Benjis and Bakers Square. Outpost has done well, and isn't far. Shorewood has been looking for a place for a seasonal farmer's market. What if we tested some things this summer, like allowed local Victory Garden farmers to sell organic produce there? It's an easy on/off in a car or on a bike - close to Oak Leaf.

CowDung April 16, 2012 at 02:20 am

Wow--I guess my "vitriol" must have struck a nerve. Are you still mourning the loss of Open Book as a 'community gathering place' or something?

Cricket April 16, 2012 at 02:45 am

Oh, please no victory gardens. You can ride down the path and see the one's by urban ecology center. A lot of people are putting them in their yards also and that is enough of an eyesore. As you said, Outpost is right down the road. A farmers market might be nice but that area needs a permanent structure. Shorewood does not need any more meet and greet places, there are enough coffee shops for people that want to chat and have meetings of the mind. A nice normal middle of the road to upscale restaurant/supper club would be nice. Nothing trendy, we have enough of that now. Could have security and entertainment and potentially employee many people. Culvers and Bakers Square as well as much of that surrounding area are really getting tacky, Shorewood is better than that.. They just should have left Riverbrook there. From what I understand the crime is getting pretty blazen in that area also. How about a satellite police depot? I hear we have people dropping over on the bike path from heroin od's. Not good. I fear that our Village, while striving for an eclectic feel is coming off more as schizophrenic. We are one of the few villages with such a vast difference in economic demographics. It seems to be suffering from an identity crisis not knowing which group to cater too.

Michael Marr June 4, 2012 at 06:14 pm

I agree! I was an Eastsider in the early 70s, a new immigrant from the UK, and the old Pig 'N Whistle was like nothing I had ever seen before. There was nothing like that in England, for sure, and I was in Pig Heaven.