March 2003 – Page 3 – Riverwest Currents

Potential Housing Development on the Johnson Controls Site

by EditorMarch 2003

Third district Alderman Michael D’Amato and other city officials met in January with representatives of Johnson Controls, Inc. to discuss possible development of 12-15 residential lots on the cleaner portion of the company’s three-acre brownfield at 3238 N. Bremen St.

City and state public health and environmental managers met later that same month and concluded that more investigation would be necessary to rule out the potential for intrusion of industrial contaminants into existing or future homes in the area.

Neighborhood News

SEWRPC’s Freeway Expansion Plan: Impact on Milwaukee Neighborhoods

by EditorMarch 2003

The Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission (SEWRPC) has proposed redesigning the freeway system and adding new lanes to 127 miles of the region’s freeways. In Milwaukee County, more lanes would be added to I-894, I-45, I-43, and I-94. The plan would cost $6.25 billion, or $17.2 million per month — not including interest on any borrowing — for 30 years. No funding source has been identified. SEWRPC says finding a way to pay for its plans is not its responsibility.

Neighborhood News

Becoming “Successfully Gentrified”

by EditorMarch 2003August 2017

In recent years, Riverwest has been primed for gentrification. Higher property values near Brady Street to the south, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee area to the east, and the booming Brewers Hill neighborhood to the southwest are causing an increase in housing demand in Riverwest and driving up housing costs and property taxes.

Neighborhood News

The Riverwest Investment Cooperative: A Capital Idea That Needs You

by EditorMarch 2003

A new era is clearly upon the Riverwest neighborhood. Development is coming from the south. The housing market continues to boom, ignoring the sputtering economy and taking advantage of historically low interest rates. And new urbanism seems to be more than just a theory or a hopeful idea. So what is to happen to our beloved neighborhood? Will it be taken over by developers and investors with no appreciation for the unique character that Riverwest has become? The threat has never been more imminent. And who or what could possibly stop them?

Neighbor Spotlight

Jesse Windom

by EditorMarch 2003December 2013

by Jim Hendersen

Over the past eight years, Jesse Windom has taken five rundown, former slumlord properties and turned them into livable, comfortable shelters for the homeless, mentally handicapped and onetime criminal offenders. He could now be called, respectfully and legitimately, a “shelterlord.”