Progress is coming along safely and efficiently at the River House Phase II project along the banks of the Milwaukee River on Milwaukee’s Lower East Side.
Prior to the Thanksgiving weekend holiday, Greenfire’s project team conducted a routine safety briefing with the entire project crew at the River House site. As a thank-you for all the hard work the trades people had put forth and maintaining an incident-free worksite thus far, Greenfire treated everyone to a special luncheon from Smoked @ Two-Twenty Five.
Following River House’s successful first phase of construction, completed in 2017, Greenfire is now managing the construction of the second phase of construction. Similar to the project’s first phase, the second phase of construction is the erection of two new four-story towers, totaling 333,400 SF. The podium-style construction will provide the high-end apartment dwellers with two levels of underground parking. Building three has been successfully topped off, allowing insulation, drywall and other phases of interior construction to commence. Meanwhile, the fourth and final tower is quickly following suit, with crews preparing for the building envelope to be fully enclosed and interior work to begin. Once completed, the entire River House complex will be nearly 716,500 SF consisting of four towers of one-, two- and three-bedroom floorplans. Upscale living is offered to residents, with features like private balconies, fitness centers, outdoor courtyard pools, rooftop lounges and a bocce ball court.
Greenfire’s project team has successfully navigated complex site logistics in a high-traffic and compact urban area along Water Street. Keeping the site safe with unique and complicated excavation then infill is a testament to our team and is an achievement worth celebrating. But it is also worth noting that being safe never takes a break, and Greenfire will continue to work to keep our project teams safe and efficient throughout the life of any project.
