Set squarely in the heart of the city, Midtown is a perennial meeting place, a neighborhood where the historical, geographic, and social currents of Milwaukee have always mingled, and the result is a character more complex than you'd find in communities several times its size. The community has gone down the road of preservation and redevelopment since the 1970s, and Midtown is less whole cloth than a collection of patches, or pockets, one distinct from another and all creating a pattern that takes time to decipher. The multicultural character of Midtown has bred a tolerance for different lifestyles.