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In Milwaukee's immediate western suburb Wauwatosa, Highway 100 was once known as Lovers Lane. The roadway served the Muirdale Tuberculosis Sanatorium and County Airfield and Limestone Quarry at what is now Currie Park. In the late 1950s, due to the combination of ready roadway and rail access, the area experienced an employment boom as several large cold storage warehouses and food-related truck terminals were constructed nearby. With the development of the Mayfair Shopping Center in 1958 by malting scion Kurtis Froedtert , the name was changed to Mayfair Road. One of the few vestiges of this earlier era is the roadway's popularity as a "cruising strip" for exhibition motorists. Inexpensive land and burgeoning growth in Western Milwaukee County and the adjacent Waukesha County have served to create a new Edge City commercial center centered on this busy arterial. The Mayfair Shopping Center remains a key vital component of this area. With the privitization and redevelopment of the County Grounds including Muirdale and the expansion of Froedtert Hospital and the Medical College of Wisconsin there will be increasing pressure to develop the last large parcels of adjacent privately-owned open space in the area; and there will likely be additional traffic pressures placed on this onetime Lovers Lane. |
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