Brookfield/Elm Grove Monthly

Barbara Eash antiques column Page 3B 247790004 The FREEMAN INSIDE PRSRT STD US POSTAGE PAID WAUKESHA, WI PERMIT NO. 3 Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/WaukeshaFreeman Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/WaukeshaFreeman Brookfield & Elm Grove T H I S M O N T H APRIL 2016 APRIL FOCUS Sprucing up body, home for springtime Remembering a fallen firefighter Details matter in interior décor Page 2B Stretch your horizons with yoga Page 2B 'The magnificent 2 1/2 miles' By Katherine Michalets Freeman Staff BROOKFIELD — Chicago may have its "Magnificent Mile" of shopping on Michigan Avenue, but Waukesha Coun- ty Executive Paul Farrow said Wiscon- sin has its "magnificent 2 1/2 miles" of retail along Bluemound Road in Brook- field. Numbers were presented during a recent Greater Brookfield Chamber of Commerce event to back up that description, including that the retail corridor will likely generate 3,600 new jobs in the next 36 months, which does- n't include commercial jobs, Farrow said. Updates on three significant projects were given March 8 during the "Blue- mound Road Building Boom" discus- sion at DoubleTree by Hilton: The Cor- ners in the Town of Brookfield, The Cor- ridor in Brookfield and Brookfield Square Mall in Brookfield. Jeff Sachse of the Department of Workforce Development provided an economic perspective. Of every dollar spent in a community, Sachse said $0.36 will result in related spending. He said retail developments "bring income into communities that didn't exist there before." Also as more development occurs, it signals to others that the "corridor is ripe for development." Brookfield Square Mall Laine Walker, senior leasing manager for CBL, operator of Brookfield Square Mall, said in fall 2015 the mall added 19,000 square feet, which included new restaurants and stores near Sears. The next phase of expansion, phase two, will include a building wrap near Boston Store with restaurants facing Moorland Road and specialty stores on the Bluemound Road side. A parking deck on the west side of Boston Store will also be constructed, she said. The 55,000-square-foot phase two of Brookfield Square Mall will break ground during the first part of 2017 and should be completed that fall. Bluemound Road booming: Corners to open spring 2017, Portillo's in June Charles Auer/Freeman Staff Bluemound Road can be seen in the distance behind the support columns for The Corners in the Town of Brookfield. Charles Auer/Freeman Staff Workers continue on the support structure for The Corners recently in the Town of Brookfield. See BOOM, PAGE 2A Page 1B Page 4A EBHS gala Governor Walker sends troops Easter packages Page 3A

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