Milwaukee's Shopping District Transforming

"Shabby though it is right now, it's part of the avenue's quirky sense of place -- something that its successor is unlikely to reinforce. Despite some attractive features, such as windows with awnings, an architect's rendering shows a store dismayingly similar to any number of other Walgreens built throughout the area, including one at the corner of N. 35th St. and W. Wisconsin Ave.: brick facade, hipped-roof towers, a pastiche of faux-Old World touches. Goodbye diversity; hello, sameness and inauthenticity."