{"id":1384,"date":"2021-10-25T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/2021\/10\/welcome-to-the-new-oak-creek-wisconsin-part-1\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T15:10:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:10:30","slug":"welcome-to-the-new-oak-creek-wisconsin-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/2021\/10\/welcome-to-the-new-oak-creek-wisconsin-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome To The &#8220;New&#8221; Oak Creek, Wisconsin&#8230;? &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/NewOC.jpg\" style=\"clear: left;float: left;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"372\" data-original-width=\"660\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/NewOC.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;font-size: medium\"><b>A huge Drexel Avenue streetscaping project could highlight Oak Creek as a &#8220;city on the lake&#8221;&#8230;<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">A wave of light could flow down Drexel Avenue in Oak Creek along new walls, plantings and past freshly planted trees as part of a new streetscaping concept designed to highlight the city&#8217;s proximity to Lake Michigan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">An engineering and consulting firm based in Milwaukee, presented a conceptual streetscape design to the Oak Creek planning commission. The goal of the plan, which reaches from Ikea Way to Howell Avenue, is to \u201cre-envision the current existing condition of Drexel Avenue.&nbsp; The plan made use of this and tried to encapsulate elements of Oak Creek\u2019s Lake Vista Park design into the streetscaping.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/communities\/south\/news\/oak-creek\/2021\/09\/30\/huge-oak-creek-streetscaping-project-proposed-drexel-avenue\/5912043001\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read more&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A huge Drexel Avenue streetscaping project could highlight Oak Creek as a &#8220;city on the lake&#8221;&#8230; A wave of light could flow down Drexel Avenue in Oak Creek along new walls, plantings and past freshly planted trees as part of a new streetscaping concept designed to highlight the city&#8217;s proximity to Lake Michigan. An [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-estate","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1386,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions\/1386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}