Avenue Foch of the Service of Promenades and Plantations of Paris, who also designed the Bois de Boulogne, the Bois de Vincennes, Parc Monceau, the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, and other parks and squares built by Napoleon III. The iron fences and lamps were designed by the architect Gabriel Davioud, who designed all the distinctive ornamental park architecture of Paris during the period, from fountains and temples to gates and fences. The final design consisted of a central avenue one hundred twenty meters wide and 1300 meters long, flanked by sidewalks for pedestrians, riding paths for horsemen, and criss-crossing alleys, shaded by rows
The Avenue (Milwaukee) The Avenue (Milwaukee) The Avenue (until December 2018 previous known as the Shops of Grand Avenue) is an urban shopping plaza that spans three city blocks in the downtown neighborhood of Westown in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Avenue is the only major indoor shopping facility in the city of Milwaukee proper with the closing of Capitol Court in 2000 and the Northridge Mall in 2009 due to competition from newly renovated malls in nearby suburbs. The Shops of Grand Avenue opened in 1982 and hosted over 80 specialty stores, along with what was at one time the largest food court in