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Barry Mandel, a developer who created the surrounding apartment buildings, has an option to purchase the piece for $ 225,000. He hopes it will become the centerpiece of a new
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at the Burns Commons that would include a number of smaller works from recognized artists.
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The park itself was part of a land swap with the City of Milwaukee to expand available
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and carved from an abandoned freeway corridor, the piece has been described by the
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sculpture currently on display at the Burns Commons in
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Developer poised to find sculpture for east side park
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as "slicing into the sky like a tool left behind by
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Historic Preservation Commission Study Report (PDF)
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Beverly Pepper
Coordinates
43°2′51.159″N 87°53′46.783″W / 43.04754417°N 87.89632861°W / 43.04754417; -87.89632861
carbon steel
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
public art
Brooklyn
Beverly Pepper
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Paul Bunyan
Cor-ten
Chicago's
Navy Pier
New York's
Battery Park
Florence
Paris
sculpture garden
green space
Robert Burns
David Rose
Emergence of public art in Milwaukee
Developer poised to find sculpture for east side park
Biography of Beverly Pepper
First Ward Triangle Historic District
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Public art in Milwaukee
Downtown

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