North Point Revetment and Parking Lot
The North Point Parking Lot serves Bradford Beach, the Northpoint Concession Stand (Moosa's), and the Lakefront. The pavement for the parking lot is in poor condition, and the storm sewer system has collapsed in several locations causing localized flooding during wet weather. Additionally, like many lakefront assets, the parking lot has experienced damage as a result of historically high Lake Michigan water levels and wave action, and the shoreline has been impacted by repeated and increasingly severe storms.
This project will result in designs for parking lot reconstruction. The project will include improvements for parking lot circulation, replacement of pavement, shoreline protection, storm water management including green infrastructure, lighting upgrades, and other utility replacements.
- Preliminary design and engineering is underway. Review the Proposed Design plans here.
Construction Update
Completion of the North Point parking lot project has been separated into 2 phases of work due to project costs. Phase 1 of the project includes the reconstruction of the stone revetment that protects the near-shore areas. This work began in early 2024 and continues to progress after several unanticipated delays, including an equipment operator's strike and Republican National Convention impacts. The revetment phase of the project should be completed in late September/early October of 2024.
Reconstruction of the parking lot area includes upgrades to site lighting, stormwater management, pedestrian circulation elements, and other landscape features. This phase of work. will be considered for inclusion in the 2025 capital budget. Pending expected funding, construction on the balance of the project would be planned to begin in early 2025 with anticipated completion by the summer of 2025.
Project Partners
Milwaukee County Parks
Freshwater Engineering
Visu-sewer
Gestra
Res
SEH Inc
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Project Details
Budget
Design: $193,185
Construction: $6,941,584
- Approved 2025 Milwaukee County Budget
Supervisory District: 3
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Project Owner
Phone 414-257-7275 Email parksplanning@milwaukeecountywi.gov -
Phone 14145678310 Email antonio.giron@milwaukeecountywi.gov
Seconding the thoughts on additional bike, scooter, etc parking for people not driving - there's no transit service, so it feels like we're artificially limiting beach visitors to the small number of vehicles that can fit in the LMD parking lots or people who are able to walk from the Northpoint area up the bluffs.
I'd also love to see a way to reduce time wasted looking for spots. It seems there's a lot of needless congestion as people drive around the parking lot to see if there is an open place to park. Using an electronic message board to display the number of available parking spots feels like it could reduce a lot of headache here. I don't know the cost of that sort of system but it seems to work very well in parking garages, and I think it would dramatically cut down on the circulation up and down LMD between the east and west side parking lots.
I'd love some bike parking on the North end of the lot. The spots by MooSa might as well not exist for anyone not going there. Imagine yourself riding a bike Northbound. You don't see either rack because they are both blocked by trees and the building and then have to continue to park in the pavilion, which never has enough bike parking, so you have to cobble your bike against the fence or drag it up to the upper level of the pavilion there and lock it up there and walking all the way back to where your friends were at the south end of the beach.
In contrast, you can fit 12 bikes in a single one of these parking spaces. Put some here, put some further North too. The county is better off making more space efficient parking for the area.
Also, why is it the parks business to be making huge parking lots? Parking is always going to be a pain here and anyone who knows the area knows to park up top and walk down after a certain time. For the majority of the day during the majority of the year (fall-through-spring), this parking lot is genuinely 80% empty. Lean into that and make the lot half the size. You're not upsetting expectations because people already are going to have to walk for the entire summer this is getting fixed. Use the remaining budget to do actual park things, not building private car storage.
Make biking and bike parking at the lakefront easier and safer instead of making it more dangerous and increasing the amount of car parking spots. Why are there more dangerous mountable curbs than bike racks in this plan? Is your priority making it harder to be safe in our parks or the opposite?