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New Land Enterprises

About

Member Offices: Milwaukee

Website: https://www.newlandmke.com

A city is more than its buildings. Cities rely on the relationships that exist between people, nature, and the built environment. New Land Enterprises strives to create communities that celebrate and contribute to the unique fabric of each neighborhood, with the belief that cities thrive when they are diverse, walkable, and culturally vibrant.

Fields of Expertise

Developer

Buildings

Rank
Name
Status

Completed

Architecturally Topped Out

Structurally Topped Out

Under Construction

On Hold

Proposed

Vision

Never Completed

Demolished

Competition Entry

Canceled

Proposed Renovation

Under Renovation

Renovated

Under Demolition

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Height

1

Ascent

86.6 m / 284 ft

Building Completions Timeline

Videos

01 October 2020

Timber Rising | Erica Spiritos

Toward a Factory Approach to Tall Timber Building Construction

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Research

23 May 2022

Interactive Study - The State of Tall Timber: A Global Audit

This data study represents the significant recent momentum of the mass-timber movement worldwide. There are now 139 mass timber buildings around the world of eight...

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Global News

22 July 2022

High-Rise in Milwaukee Takes Title of World’s Tallest Mass Timber Hybrid

On July 20, 2022 New Land Enterprises welcomed the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) and the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional...

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Rank
Name
City
Height

1

Ascent

Milwaukee

87 m

284 ft

Statistics

Average Building Age*

1 Years

* Based on 150 m+ buildings currently in the database

Building Completions Timeline

Building Map

Construction Time Chart

NOTE: Construction start time is not available for all buildings. The average construction time is only displayed if there is three or more buildings with construction start and complete data in that year.

Ctbuh Leaders At New Land Enterprises

CTBUH Steel-Timber Research Project Steering Committee, 2022 – Present

Tim Gokhman

Managing Director, New Land Enterprises
Milwaukee, United States

Videos

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01 October 2020 | Chicago

Timber Rising | Erica Spiritos

Toward a Factory Approach to Tall Timber Building Construction

Research

23 May 2022

Interactive Study - The State of Tall Timber: A Global Audit

CTBUH Research

This data study represents the significant recent momentum of the mass-timber movement worldwide. There are now 139 mass timber buildings around the world of eight...

04 April 2022

Advancing Tall Timber, One Code Revision at a Time

Hans-Erik Blomgren, Timberlab

In 2021, several major obstacles were overcome in the path to adoption of mass timber as a viable option for high-rise construction in North America....

04 April 2022

State of Tall Timber 2022

Daniel Safarik, Jacob Elbrecht & William Miranda, CTBUH

The past few years have seen tremendous interest in the development of mass timber buildings of increasing height, in urban settings, many of which are...

12 January 2021

Ascending Timber Aspiration in Milwaukee

Tim Gokhman, New Land Enterprises

As developers’ appetites for building tall with mass timber grows, acceptance of the technique is growing among approving authorities, which in turn, allows the height...

16 September 2020

Ascent – Challenges and Advances of Tall Mass Timber Construction

Alejandro Fernandez, Jordan Komp, and John Peronto, Thornton Tomasett

Ascent, a 25 story residential tower located in Milwaukee, WI (USA), will become the tallest timber building in the world upon completion. This paper discusses...

Global News

22 July 2022

High-Rise in Milwaukee Takes Title of World’s Tallest Mass Timber Hybrid

On July 20, 2022 New Land Enterprises welcomed the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) and the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional...

17 December 2021

Ascent, Milwaukee Structurally Tops Out

New Land Enterprises and development partner Wiechmann Enterprises celebrate milestone as mass timber construction is structurally topped out. Earlier this week, the final mass timber beams,...

01 September 2020

Construction Starts On Milwaukee Mass Timber Tower

Construction has started on an unusual downtown Milwaukee apartment tower. The 25-story, 259-unit high-rise is being constructed with a type of mass timber construction called...

01 May 2020

Timber Composite Tower in Milwaukee To Begin Pre-Leasing

New Land Enterprises will begin pre-leasing apartments in Ascent, a proposed 25-story apartment tower made from mass timber, in the coming days. A brochure will...

30 September 2019

Proposed Wooden High-Rise in Milwaukee Gets Final Changes Approved

The City of Milwaukee Plan Commission and the Zoning, Neighborhoods and Development Committee have unanimously approved changes to New Land Enterprises’ Ascent residential project that...

15 May 2019

Mass Timber Apartment Tower Moves Forward with Grant in Milwaukee

A downtown Milwaukee high-rise has found support from an unlikely source: the United States Department of Agriculture. The department’s Forestry Service division announced this week...

24 January 2019

Timber Frame, 21-Story Milwaukee Apartment Tower Wins Plan Commission Approval

A downtown Milwaukee apartment high-rise that would use high-grade timber, not steel, for its frame has won Plan Commission approval. The 21-story Ascent would feature...