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Ugly Building: 2986 S. Kinnickinnic Ave.

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Cara Spoto
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Located near the corner of South Kinnickinnic and East Rusk avenues and sandwiched between a home and a dive bar, the tiny one-story brick building at 2986 S. Kinnickinnic Ave. in Milwaukee’s Bay View neighborhood has certainly seen better days.  Long home to Grayce’s Cosmo House of Beauty, the 1,495-square foot building has been vacant

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Cara Spoto
Cara Spoto, former BizTimes Milwaukee reporter.

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Located near the corner of South Kinnickinnic and East Rusk avenues and sandwiched between a home and a dive bar, the tiny one-story brick building at 2986 S. Kinnickinnic Ave. in Milwaukee’s Bay View neighborhood has certainly seen better days. 

Long home to Grayce’s Cosmo House of Beauty, the 1,495-square foot building has been vacant for years. But Milwaukee-area real estate investor MaryJo McBurney is hoping to change that. A limited liability company owned by McBurney purchased the property in May with hopes of finding someone interested in either renovating or expanding the roughly 100-year-old building or redeveloping the 4,530-square-foot lot where it sits. 

“I have been reaching out to developers,” said McBurney, who owns Lee’s Luxury Lounge next door and 33 other properties in the Milwaukee area. “I want it to complement the area, something that is going to bring more business down there.” 

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