Shorewood is only 1.5 square miles, and it isn’t cheap real estate. Moving it into Riverworks would make sense. They already have a post office annex over on Holton Street.

Milwaukee could get a new public works facility, but it would be for a neighboring suburb.

The Village of Shorewood is looking to move its public works facility to a vacant, 4.2-acre site near Capitol Drive.

A newly filed occupancy permit request is just the latest step in a long-running effort by the village to relocate its public works operation from a constrained, New Deal-era site located between the Oak Leaf Trail and N. Morris Boulevard.