A $21 million mixed-use Bronzeville development featuring production space for filmmakers, musicians and other creatives, as well as affordable apartments, is taking a step forward.

The Bronzeville Creative Arts and Technology Hub's proposed project site, 1.1 acres north of West North Avenue and west of North Sixth Street, would be sold by the city to the project developers under a plan approved Thursday by the Milwaukee Redevelopment Authority board.

That plan, which sets the stage for the authority to begin negotiating a sale of the site, allows developers Fit Investment Group LLC and Cinnaire Solutions Corp. to pursue financing.

That would include federal and state affordable housing tax credits to help pay for 54 to 60 apartments.

The developers also hope to use federal New Markets Tax Credits to help finance a three-story, 22,000-square-foot building to house musicians, artists, graphic designers and other creatives, including start-up businesses. It also would have a street-level cafe.

Both phases combine to create a development where creatives can live, work and play.

The hub was recommended in April by the Bronzeville Advisory Committee.

It could join other developments proceeding in the Bronzeville area, which runs along North Avenue, from I-43 to North King Drive, and along King Drive centered on North Avenue.

Those other projects include:

• Bronzeville Center for the Arts, a 50,000-square-foot arts and cultural center focusing on Black art. It will replace the former state Department of Natural Resources regional office, 2300 N. King Drive, which is to be razed.

• Bronzeville Center for the Arts offices and gallery, a 6,650-square-foot building replacingr a renovated duplex and vacant lot at 507 W. North Ave.

• ThriveOn King, the conversion of the historic six-story former Schuster's department store, 2153 N. King Drive, into 100,000 square feet of office space, anchored by the ThriveOn Collaboration, led by Medical College of Wisconsin and Greater Milwaukee Foundation; 89 apartments, and 50,000 square feet of early child education and community space, including a food hall.

• Dohmen Co. Foundation Inc.'s new headquarters within a two-story, 34,000-square-foot building at 2007 N. King Drive that housed Fein Brothers before the restaurant supply business moved.

• Niche Book Bar, a vacant building at 1937 N. King Drive being converted into a book store that focuses on Black literature that includes a coffee house and wine bar.

Tom Daykin can be emailed at tdaykin@jrn.com and followed on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

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