A preservation group indicated it is has withdrawn a lawsuit seeking to block construction of a 44-story apartment building on Milwaukee's lakefront, paving the way for construction of $122-million Couture, a project under development for years.
Milwaukee-based Preserve Our Parks will no longer appeal a decision by Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Christopher Foley that allowed Couture developer Rick Barrett to construct the project at the site of a lakeside transit center. Preserve Our Parks contended that because the center was constructed atop a lake bed, the parcel was protected from private development. In June, Foley ruled that a state law locating the lake bed boundary east of the center was valid.