{"slug":"most-building-permits","topic":"City Hall","query":"commercial_permits_by_neighborhood","title":"Most commercial building permits by Milwaukee neighborhood","question":"Which Milwaukee neighborhood has the most commercial building permits?","answer":"Juneau Town has the most commercial building permits of any City of Milwaukee neighborhood, with 23 permits issued from November 3, 2025 to June 15, 2026.","finding":"A few neighborhoods got a large share of commercial permits. The top 5 neighborhoods got 30.1% of the 256 permits, and 88 City neighborhoods got none in that stretch.","metric":"City of Milwaukee commercial building permits","period":"Permits issued November 3, 2025 to June 15, 2026","source":{"title":"City of Milwaukee residential and commercial permit work data","url":"https://data.milwaukee.gov/dataset/buildingpermits","license":"Public domain (City of Milwaukee Open Data Policy, Council resolution of July 14, 2016); the dataset page states Creative Commons Attribution","redistributable":true},"method":"We count the commercial permits in the City's permit data, by the neighborhood each permit's address is in. Homes aren't in this count.","caveat":"This is only the stretch of permits we have today, from November 3, 2025 to June 15, 2026, not a full calendar year. A longer stretch could reorder the table, and one big project can hold several permits.","columns":[{"key":"share","label":"Share of permits"}],"floor":null,"city":[{"rank":1,"slug":"juneau-town","name":"Juneau Town","value":23,"shown":"23","extra":{"share":"9.0%"}},{"rank":2,"slug":"bay-view","name":"Bay View","value":17,"shown":"17","extra":{"share":"6.6%"}},{"rank":3,"slug":"kilbourn-town","name":"Kilbourn Town","value":14,"shown":"14","extra":{"share":"5.5%"}},{"rank":4,"slug":"mitchell-west","name":"Mitchell West","value":12,"shown":"12","extra":{"share":"4.7%"}},{"rank":5,"slug":"lower-east-side","name":"Lower East Side","value":11,"shown":"11","extra":{"share":"4.3%"}},{"rank":6,"slug":"walkers-point","name":"Walker's Point","value":9,"shown":"9","extra":{"share":"3.5%"}},{"rank":7,"slug":"riverwest","name":"Riverwest","value":7,"shown":"7","extra":{"share":"2.7%"}},{"rank":8,"slug":"avenues-west","name":"Avenues 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