Brookfield is where Waukesha County does its shopping. The Corners anchors one end, Brookfield Square the other, and the Bluemound Road corridor between them holds most of the county's restaurants, boutiques, and salons. Von Maur on a Saturday is practically a civic event.
There is more to it than retail. The Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts brings real touring work into the suburbs, and Fox Brook Park and Wirth Park give the city its green space, swimming beach and sledding hill included. Mitchell Park's trails fill up the second the weather turns.
The schools set the rhythm for a lot of families here. Brookfield East and Brookfield Central have a rivalry that is genuinely old, and a fall Friday in this town tends to end at a football field. Elmbrook is the reason plenty of people moved here in the first place.
Brookfield has an eye for detail and does not settle for cookie cutter, which is exactly how we work. Clients drive up Bluemound for Botox, filler, and facials that read as refined rather than obvious, and fit into a put-together week without announcing themselves.
What surprises people about Brookfield is how much green space is folded into it. Behind the Bluemound corridor there are creek corridors, conservancy land, and quiet residential streets with mature trees. The city has close to 42,000 people and does not feel like it from most of its neighborhoods.