# Which Milwaukee neighborhood has the most new commercial construction?

It's a tie. Bay View and Town of Lake have the most new construction permits of any City of Milwaukee neighborhood, with 2 new construction permits.

Count by residents and Calumet Farms comes first, at 0.8 per 1,000, even though it ranks 3rd by plain count.

Metric: Commercial new construction permits. Period: As of November 3, 2026. Source: [City of Milwaukee residential and commercial permit work data](https://data.milwaukee.gov/dataset/buildingpermits).

## City of Milwaukee neighborhoods

| Rank | Neighborhood | Commercial new construction permits | Per 1,000 residents |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Bay View](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/bay-view) | 2 | 0.1 |
| 1 | [Town of Lake](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/town-of-lake) | 2 | 0.4 |
| 3 | [Brewer's Hill](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/brewers-hill) | 1 | 0.4 |
| 3 | [Calumet Farms](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/calumet-farms) | 1 | 0.8 |
| 3 | [Capitol Heights](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/capitol-heights) | 1 | 0.2 |
| 3 | [Goldman Park](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/goldman-park) | 1 | 0.6 |
| 3 | [Harambee](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/harambee) | 1 | 0.1 |
| 3 | [Juneau Town](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/juneau-town) | 1 | 0.2 |
| 3 | [Kilbourn Town](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/kilbourn-town) | 1 | 0.2 |
| 3 | [Lincoln Creek](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/lincoln-creek) | 1 | 0.1 |
| 3 | [Menomonee River Hills East](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/menomonee-river-hills-east) | 1 | 0.4 |
| 3 | [Menomonee River Valley](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/menomonee-river-valley) | 1 | 0.4 |
| 3 | [Southgate](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/southgate) | 1 | 0.4 |
| 3 | [Triangle North](https://littlemilwaukee.com/neighborhoods/triangle-north) | 1 | 0.8 |

167 City neighborhoods aren't in this table: no new construction permit in this stretch is inside their boundary.

## Suburbs

No suburb table: this is City of Milwaukee data.

## How it was measured

We count the City's commercial permits marked as new construction, by the neighborhood each address is in.

## What would change the answer

This is only the stretch of permits we have today, and most neighborhoods have none in it. One project can hold more than one permit.