Eleven mayoral candidates were asked the following questions this month. All responded by e-mail unless otherwise noted: “What role should the city play in fostering neighborhood-scale economic development? Are there any specific programs or changes you would implement to help stimulate Milwaukee’s “neighborhood economies”?
January 2004
Posted inNeighborhood News
Twindominiums on Center Street
Bob Schaeffer and Dennis Rehberg are relatively good natured about the hurdles they say the city had them jump through in order to develop the property at Center east of Humboldt. While referring to it as trial by fire, and calling the first three attempts at beginning construction as the “hole from hell,” they admit that it’s all part of the learning curve.
Posted inBusiness Briefs
January 2004
J. T. Bones – Will Play Guitar for Food – East North Avenue Business Improvement District
Posted inBusiness Spotlight
There’s Something Fishy Here
by Kevin Flaherty
Kim Wall had been an accountant, banker, real estate agent, public-relations manager, and spice maker all by her early 40s. So perhaps it shouldn’t have surprised those that knew her that she jumped in — if not the deep end of the pool, then certainly the cold waters of the North Atlantic — and bought a business she knew little about at the time: pickled herring.
Posted inRNA News
Police Chief, Water Works Head Meet with Riverwest Residents
by Lorraine Jacobs and Sonya Jongsma Knauss
At the Riverwest Neighborhood Association’s final meeting of the year, several city officials generously gave up part of their evening to answer questions from neighbors. First up was a presentation by new police chief Nan Hegerty, who was accompanied by Capt. James Shepard, Lt. Don Gaglione, and P.O. Bruce Scott.
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