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.
March 2003
Posted inNeighborhood News
The Riverwest Investment Cooperative: A Capital Idea That Needs You
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?
Posted inNeighbor Spotlight
Jesse Windom
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.”
Posted inCommentary & Opinion
What Does It Mean To Say Riverwest Is Integrated – Is It Really?
GUEST COMMENTARY – by Jackie Reid Dettloff
It was Saturday afternoon when I read the January issue of Riverwest Currents with Tanya Cromartie-Twaddle’s “Living a Life Mosaic: Diversity in Riverwest.” The question, “how shall we live together?” was fresh in my mind the next morning, when I opened the Sunday Journal Sentinel and found the first of several articles on segregation in our city and its surrounding suburbs. Whether one agrees or not with Lois Quinn and John Pawasarat’s definition of an integrated neighborhood as being “20% white and at least 20% black,” the publication of the results of their study has opened a spirited dialogue. I see that as good.
Posted inColumns
Group Efforts
Recently in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel there was a lengthy article about Milwaukee’s collaborative visual arts groups. In part, this article was a response to a Jan. 19 article in the New York Times, “Doing Their Own Thing,” which identified Milwaukee as one city where artists made their own art scene through collaborative efforts.
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