East Town Apartments
East Town Home to Milwaukee’s central business district. The neighborhood is east of the Milwaukee River. It is bordered by Brady Street on the lower east side, the Third Ward on the south, and Lake Michigan on the east. This area contained the original Juneau Town settlement which competed with the neighboring Kilbourn Town for people and resources and has a remarkably different feel. East Town has dense, narrower streets and a more intimate feel, whereas Westown has broad, vast streets with older buildings. The strikingly modern skyscrapers of the Northwestern Mutual Life complex and Milwaukee’s tallest building, the U.S. Bank Center, as well as the city’s four other tallest buildings, dominate the eastern portion of the neighborhood. Other noteworthy buildings include the Chase Bank building, the Faison building, and the Morgan Stanley building. Also, two large condominium developments, Kilbourn Tower and University Club tower, are under construction or have been recently completed in the northern half of the neighborhood. Both buildings are over 32 stories tall and have units priced at two million dollars apiece. The neighborhood also contains the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist and Old St. Mary’s Church which have survived from the early days of Milwaukee. The East Town neighborhood association hosts Jazz in the Park, an outdoor music concert series at Cathedral Square Park.
