State Trunk Highway 100
Length:	39.69 mi[1] (63.9 km)
South end:	WI-32 near Oak Creek
Major junctions:	US-45 in Franklin I-94 in West Allis US 41 in Milwaukee
North end:	I-43 in Fox Point
Wisconsin highways < WIS 99 WIS 101 > County - Bannered - Rustic

State Trunk Highway 100 (STH 100, commonly known as Highway 100 or WIS 100) is a road which encircles the outer edges of Milwaukee County. Officially, the road is designed as a bypass around the city of Milwaukee, but with residential and commercial development along Highway 100 on almost all portions of the road, this purpose has been negated, and it serves as one of the Milwaukee area's major commercial corridors. Highway 100 roughly parallels the freight railroad beltway around Milwaukee constructed in 1912 by the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. A mile is a unit of length, usually used to measure distance, in a number of different systems, including Imperial units, United States customary units and Norwegian/Swedish mil. ... km redirects here. ... State Trunk Highway 32 (often called Highway 32, STH 32 or WIS 32) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, running from the Illinois border (at Illinois Route 137) north to the Michigan border (concurrent with U.S. Highway 45). ... Oak Creek is a city located in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. ... Image File history File links US_45. ... United States Highway 45 is a north-south United States highway. ... Franklin is the name of some places in the U.S. state of Wisconsin: Franklin, Jackson County, Wisconsin Franklin, Kewaunee County, Wisconsin Franklin, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin Franklin, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Franklin, Sauk County, Wisconsin Franklin, Vernon County, Wisconsin This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other... Image File history File links I-94. ... Interstate 94 (abbreviated I-94) is a long interstate highway connecting the Great Lakes and Intermountain region of the United States. ... Wisconsin State Fair West Allis is a city in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States. ... Image File history File links US_41. ... U.S. Highway 41 is a north-south United States Highway that runs from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to Miami, Florida. ... Nickname: Cream City, Mil Town, Brew City, The City of Festivals Location of Milwaukee in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Coordinates: County Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett Area    - City (97 sq. ... Image File history File links I-43. ... Interstate 43 is an intrastate interstate highway located entirely within the state of Wisconsin, United States. ... Fox Point is a village located in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. ... List of Wisconsin State Highways Wisconsin State Highway 16, originally US-16. ... Image File history File links WIS_101. ... Milwaukee County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. ... Bypass routes are a type of bannered highway usually used when the main route of the highway goes through a town and an alternate route of the same highway goes around the highway. ... Nickname: Cream City, Mil Town, Brew City, The City of Festivals Location of Milwaukee in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Coordinates: County Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett Area    - City (97 sq. ... The Chicago and North Western Railway (AAR reporting marks: CNW, CNWS, CNWZ; unofficial abbreviation: C&NW) was a Class I railroad in the United States. ...

In Milwaukee's immediate western suburb Wauwatosa, Highway 100 was once known as Lovers Lane. Municipal Tank No. ...

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. Mayfair Mall is a shopping mall located on [Highway 100] between North and Center Avenues in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. ... Cruising is a social activity among teenagers in many United States towns that primarily consists of driving a car around looking for friends. ...

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 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. Waukesha County is a county located in the state of Wisconsin. ... Edge city is an American term for a relatively new concentration of business, shopping and entertainment outside a traditional urban area, in what had recently been a residential suburb or semi-rural community. ... The Medical College of Wisconsin (www. ...

References

External links

• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article from May 16, 2005, about Highway 100