Milton Avenue, from Mount Zion Avenue northward to Humes Road, is a product of its time, rapidly built out in the 1970s and 1980s, spurred by the opening of the Janesville Mall.
The current multiple lanes of traffic and surrounding commercial district is an expanse of asphalt and concrete, lined by strip malls and frontage roads that offer a few street trees and landscape plantings, but nothing that could be construed as significant green space.
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