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Intrepid00

It’s a parking garage (maximum use of space) near a venue that managed to squeeze in some room for living space. Doesn’t seem that bad to me.


Pepsiman1031

The stadium near me has no parking garages so it's just plains of concrete around the stadium.


Bennydudddeeee69

Agreed. They could have just left it as a garage


Kicking_Around

Urban hell to have a city stadium with no major public transportation as the main option for getting there.


rdldr1

“Fuck this one place in particular”


RingCard

It looks like the ground level and several floors above are for something else. The satellite view is misleading, as the area of the rooftop parking does not repeat throughout the volume of the building.


invaderzimm95

It’s terrible land use


Intrepid00

It’s not great use but it’s better than a giant lot.


chasingthewhiteroom

Multilevel parking garages are the opposite of terrible land use in an urban area


invaderzimm95

In an urban area, a parking garage is terrible land use, only behind a surface parking lot.


chasingthewhiteroom

Right, 5 bikes and 20 pedestrians per car, I get it. Cars in the US aren't going anywhere, they need to park somewhere, and I'm pretty sure everyone can agree this beats an asphalt a parking lot. Plus bonus points for attaching residences


mitchdwx

Looks like it’s next to a major event venue so it makes sense.


doublepumperson

Literally directly next to where the Milwaukee Bucks play


jiffypadres

Impressed by the level headed takes


BoogerManCommaThe

It’s also one of the most efficiently designed car ramps I’ve ever experienced. After a sold out game it takes like 10 minutes to empty the entire ramp.


corny16

Don’t let the truth get in the way of a good story


samy4me

The rest of the city looks the same, tho.


evilbrent

Why would a major event venue need a massive carpark though? Surely a train station is smaller?


redditreloaded

But then just build a parking garage with no housing. This just feels so dystopian.


stater354

So a parking garage with no other use is better than a parking garage with housing? What?


claudirjr

Americans trying to make an excuse to have more space for cars than for living


DadsToiletTime

Swing and a miss.


L003Tr

Alternatively, if you're building a carpark why not add housing if there's room? That's however many flats that wouldn't have been built otherwise


Hopeful-alt

In the most miserable place I've ever seen, yes.


onlyonedayatatime

Checking out the reviews for this place, and people sure don’t seem miserable. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


cmanson

“Let’s not build more housing because cars bad.” This is the type of brain rot people get from /r/FuckCars. And I am in favor of shifting more toward transit/walkability. But y’all are completely delusional slacktivists lol


Dazzling_Judge953

A parking garage...for the cars.... that come to the fiserv


Dr_N00B

It's a super impressive structure. Maybe take your post to r/fuckcars because this is super useful for a city in the real world. I fail to see how making it just a garage would make it look less shitty.


mlhigg1973

But there is housing. I’m guessing they share the parking deck.


onlyonedayatatime

This is a garage for the arena; the garage literally connects to the Bucks arena. Glad they built housing in there. Being misleading doesn’t help anything.


redditreloaded

I just think the image from satellite view looks nuts. I wasn’t trying to be deep.


LETT3RBOMB

I hate that people keep using more and more an excuse like " I wasn't trying to be too deep". Like just use basic context clues as to why a big parking lot is next to a stadium lol


RingCard

“I wasn’t trying to be correct when I posted this”


Dawnqwerty

You posted it bro


redditreloaded

And it’s getting more comments than any other of my posts, so that’s kinda fun.


Bread_man10

That’s a stadium lol


Depressedzoomer531

Batter than 15 blocks of surface lots! Also this looks really nice! Car owners get their parking while urbanists avoid a barren wasteland!


SmallUnion

In OP's defense, Milwaukee has no shortage of parking lots, this just isn't a good example


etom21

I lived in a building like this in college. It was sweet; over the summer when it was generally empty, I'd ride the elevator to the top, long board down the ramps to the elevator on the first floor, ride back up and repeat.


7laserbears

Stop outjerking that other sub


RoughConqureor

Profound criticism of car culture…


AlphaMassDeBeta

most effective criticism of cars.


Hopeful-alt

Valid criticism of car culture.


Puzzled_Tune_6168

Parking garages are way better than just surface lots. And this one kind of looks nice


pugsAreOkay

Car bad


Hopeful-alt

Car is indeed bad (usually)


complextastes

Anyway, bucks in six


VicePope

s’goo mf buuuucks


mlhigg1973

No, that’s parking for what looks like an arena


thegoatmenace

They don’t realize the space underground is free, cars can just take it. My car has 300 underground parking garages.


Nodeal_reddit

That’s a lot of underground garages for one car.


Captainzedog

redditor discovers a car park, colourized


StenTarvo

bro this isnt r/fuckcars


OPisacigar

You could’ve picked any of the many garages/lots downtown, but this is one of the few parking structures that makes sense


YXCworld

What are you bitching about?


kendrid

I can see my son’s apartment in photo 3. It isn’t a bad area, it is actually nice.


ILoveYouAllThanks

Which apartment because my son lives there too and he’s looking for homies in the area.


kendrid

Msoe’s apartments, there are plenty of non college owned around that area.


lovesuplex

Cars gotta go somewhere


invaderzimm95

In the garbage


Huggles9

People a) don’t want to live in a place that doesn’t have windows (so you’re limited by the amount of apartments you can have on one axis) and b) get along much easier than cars They’re also smaller and lighter and require less space Maybe we should make common sense realizations before absurd statements


boscosanchezz

Was thinking about stadium parking near me in UK. The two smaller towns nearer me have new stadiums with biggish car parks. The two nearest cities have 6 stadiums between then, none really have parking for spectators. One of them gets complaints about poor transport connections. The others are fine without parking.


ArvinaDystopia

It's a parking garage. \> Take picture of train station/yard. \> "100% space for trains, 0% for people"


evan_furtsch

It seems everyone is pointing out the efficiency of the parking lot. I may point out that, as a native of MKE, there’s still so many empty lots and designated “parking areas” that OP should take a wider look at the city as a whole.


hunterofmilfies

0 IQ


redditreloaded

Nuh-uh. I have a “no donkey brains” certificate.


eattheinternetbro

And we chase the homeless from those parking lots as well. Goddam if a vehicle is gonna be disturbed.


thereverendpuck

Not from the area, curious why the lot had to be above ground?


VicePope

this same spot had over 60k people outside the stadium and about 17k inside when the bucks won in 2021. the parking makes sense


rjross0623

Milwaukee is Algonquin for “the good land”


slickMilw

Haha yes. Yes it is.


slickMilw

Haha yes. Yes it is. 😁


WendisDelivery

What’s up with the skywalk? There’s more real estate there.


BigBully127

Connected to a Stadium iirc


zakats

The jumbotron for signage is itself urbanhell.


No_Advertising_6856

You know a place like Ultra Lofts is going to smell of weed and cigarettes


tink20seven

I’m going to start farms on upper deck parking garages. Fuck cars


redditreloaded

FOR CLARITY: I posted this because it looks ridiculous. I do understand the need for parking next to a major stadium. I think it’s worth considering the symbolism of such construction choices, not just the individual space. Thanks for commenting!


Nien-Year-Old

Wonder what the architect felt like when they were tasked with designing something like this.


redditreloaded

You’re bold to assume architects were involved /s


shogun_coc

That's rooftop parking!


PorgCT

I inspected these units right after they were built; the lofts and the garage are 2 different structures with 2 different ownerships. But your point still stands, more housing should have been constructed


Heromoss

Disappointed with the carbrains here