Help choosing a new parkway tree in the Northern Midwest (flowers, lawn)

[TheWayISeeThings]

The Ash tree on my parkway got the ax last summer. The city is putting in adult replacement trees. I've narrowed the list to the following:

Miyabei "State Street" Maple Is the wood weak?
Freeman's Maple (Marmo or Matador) Is the wood weak?
Sweet-gum
Yellowwood
Hackberry
Apple Serviceberry How much pruning is required?
Japanese Lilac I know it needs to be trained. Is pruning difficult given its size?
Pekin Lilac

The parkway is well drained and we tend towards drought in July/August. My street is at a low spot compared to the streets to the north and south, so we are somewhat sheltered from the wind. We do get heavy snow and ice periodically. I have an oak in the back and don't want to deal with anymore slow compost material and messy (painful) fruits. Between the oak and the pines, I get plenty of yard debris.

Here is a picture of the house. The x's show the trees that were removed. The white line is where my electric/cable service runs from the pole on the other side of the street. It is a southern exposure in with some mature trees on the street...many of them conifers. My neighbor on the right has two large Norway Spruce just on the edge of their lawn and a smallish elm in the parkway. My neighbor to my left has a large Elm in the parkway and a Norway Spruce directly in front of their house. I have no trees in my front lawn at present.

How do all those pines affect the acidity of the soil? Does that affect the kind of tree I should select?

I've considered putting in a fence with some flowers along the sidewalk and am torn between wanting a shade tree that will spread out over the street and provide autumn color vs. a smaller tree that will provide more sunlight to the front yard allowing flowers to grow. In front of my house, I have two Japanese Weeping Lilac that are well established and I would hate to hinder them.