The Mandel Group, which is planning to build 157 market-rate apartments on the site of the city's Blanchard Street parking lots, will close those lots soon in preparation for construction to begin.
The property at 7746 Menomonee River Parkway, just north of the Harmonee Avenue bridge, has been vacant since the city purchased it in 2020, tore down an old office building there and began seeking proposals.
