October 2002
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Riverwest Parishes Vote to Merge to Maintain a Neighborhood Presence

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by Jeff Johnson

For more than 100 years Riverwest has swirled around two spiritual pillars: one, St. Casimir, overlooks Bremen and Clarke Streets, and the other, St. Mary of Czestochowa, is at Burleigh and Fratney. Their very names proclaim the neighborhood’s working class Polish heritage. But in a meeting in late July, the joint parish council voted unanimously to accept the recommendation of a strategic planning committee to merge. Final action on the vote depends on the new Milwaukee Archbishop Timothy Dolan and his staff, but the parish anticipates that he will agree with the decision.

Posted inBusiness Briefs

October 2002

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Lena’s Grocery on Holton is getting ready to open. Construction crews have been hard at work in recent weeks behind the painted windows. The new store represents a $3 million investment in the neighborhood.

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The Future of Garden Park and Gardener’s Market: Somewhere, Somehow, Some Place for Us

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by Vince Bushell

Neighborhood dreams centered in an old commercial building died and were buried under the weight of polluted soil dumped on the site from a nearby torn down tannery from Milwaukee’s industrial age. If you lie on the ground you can almost hear the echoes of the music from the basement nightclubs — Tiny Tim strumming his ukulele on “Tiptoe through the tulips” at Humpin Hannahs… the cash registers ringing and neighborhood gossip flowing in past co-ops. Neighbors hoping for a community that was people-centered. All dead. All gone. And what was left was a littered, wind-swept vacant lot filled with hard clay.