Bay View apartment proposal scaled back

After getting a tough response to plans for two Kinnickinnic Avenue apartment buildings during a first neighborhood meeting two months ago, a local developer on Wednesday floated a smaller proposal with fewer units.

The project in Milwaukee’s Bay View neighborhood would replace a BMO Harris Bank branch, vacant restaurant building and houses at Kinnickinnic and South Herman Street. Milwaukee-based F Street Group in October first pitched two six-story buildings with a combined 230 apartments for…