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All that is great- really it is, but ill informed Im not. I've been to Milwaukee several times and every time I went it was dead.
Yeah, when you are there scoring your crack at 4 in the morning on a Tuesday in April during a thunderstorm things tend to be a little slow. I kid you.
Milwaukee's downtown is not "dead" by any means. Weeknights are slower usually. But you cannot say Milwaukee is dead. The Water Street bars alone are jumping 4-5 nights a week and are alot of fun. Certain bars/clubs literally draw large crowds 6-7 days a week! Not bad for a small city. In the summer, Brady Street is crawling with people all weekend. Jefferson Street is becoming more popular now. If you want wall to wall people, the college crowd, whatever just go to Flannery's or that trendy ass Trinity. You cant squeeze another drunk in those joints on most Fridays/Saturdays. Or if you really want to blow your mind, go there during a Marquette game night. Or any of the clubs. Milwaukee is a party town but parties harder on weekends. But we do our partying INSIDE the buildings, not inside of taxicabs, or out on the streets. Makes for fewer lines getting into places and fewer drunks getting run over. As for overall vibracy during the day? What do you expect for a city of only 500,000? everyone's at work!
Yeah, when you are there scoring your crack at 4 in the morning on a Tuesday things tend to be a little slow.
Milwaukee's downtown is not "dead" by any means. Weeknights are slower absolutely. But you cannot say Milwaukee is dead. Water Street alone is jumping 4-5 nights a week. In the summer, Brady Street is crawling with people all weekend. Jefferson Street is becoming more popular. If you want wall to wall people, college crowd, whatever just go to Flannery's or that trendy ass Trinity. You cant squeeze another drunk in those joints. Or if you really want to blow your mind, go there during a Marquette game night. Or any of the clubs. Milwaukee is a party town. But we do our partyinf INSIDE, not inside of cabs, or out on the streets. Makes for fewer lines getting into places.
Perhaps you're right- maybe the few times I went I caught it when things were quite
Well the last time I was there which was in late April I was visiting a friend at Marquette so we spent some time on Wisconsin, Wells, State street visited and visited the Water Street Brewery. I also went to the Rock Bottom Brewery and the Lake Front Brewery which as you know is in Milwaukee- those were all nice places but the downtown to me was slow and dead. Honest to goodness I only saw one taxi one time I was there and I thought it was kind of strange seeing that you guys have so many breweries
The part of downtown you're describing is dominated mainly by hotel bars. That's where tourists who don't know any better go out in Milwaukee. Lake Front is cool to do the brewery tour or the Friday fish fry, but it's not much of a nightlife establishment. Rock Bottom is nothing more than a chain restaurant, definitely not the creme de la creme for nightlife either. Your friend should have taken you to some better spots.
As far as the taxi thing goes, I hope you realize that Chicago and Manhattan are pretty much the only cities in the US where you can hail a cab at the drop of a hat.
Well, if you don't cut off all of his quote it would be clearer. It's just downtown. For now, it is a business/government center for the most part. Akin to Wall St. in NYC. The other parts of the city are thumping all the time.
Nobody mentioned Detroit, wow... I guess Casinos must add some sort of Vibrancy.... Ive been to most of the Sunbelt cities mentioned and none of them seem as dead as Detroit. You can add Indianapolis to that list as well. And I know its supposed to be 500,000 plus, but if you were to drop the population down to 400,000 then I would add Cleveland. Atlanta used to be dead, but much of that is changing. You can add LA to the same list as Dallas and Houston when it comes to lets just do business here and then go home... And the John Hancock building is in Downtown Chicago, but at one time that wasnt considered downtown.
So the John Hancock Center isn't a part of Downtown Chicago?
Yes the John Hancock building is on 875 N. Michigan Ave so it's on the northern edge of downtown. Division is 1000 north and Clark is a bit west of Michigan so Im not seeing your point....
Phoenix's downtown is pretty dead 99% of the time. You could probably shoot a cannonball downtown at night and not hit anything but tumbleweeds and shadows.
Phoenix's downtown is pretty dead 99% of the time. You could probably shoot a cannonball downtown at night and not hit anything but tumbleweeds and shadows.
At least none of the residents are frozen in their farm houses like where you're from.
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Yes the John Hancock building is on 875 N. Michigan Ave so it's on the northern edge of downtown. Division is 1000 north and Clark is a bit west of Michigan so Im not seeing your point....
