February 2004

City Residents Deserve a Community Benefits Agreement

by EditorFebruary 2004

by Kathleen Mulligan-Hansel

For over a year, a coalition of Milwaukee organizations — including labor unions, faith-based organizations, research and advocacy groups, and community organizations — has been organizing to include a Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) in the redevelopment of the former Park East corridor. Influenced by similar agreements negotiated by coalitions in Los Angeles, the Good Jobs and Livable Neighborhoods coalition wants to ensure that the considerable investment poised to flow into downtown development creates tangible improvements in other parts of the city. The proposed CBA would require developers that receive public subsidies or build on public land to invest in the human side of development.

Neighborhood News

Community Benefits Agreement: An Overview

by EditorFebruary 2004

It sounds simple, doesn’t it? Either you are for or against benefits to the community. While it isn’t quite that simple, an ordinance that’s been shuttled around City Hall for a few months is based on a relatively simple premise: that when the city sells public land or uses public money to subsidize a development, there should be some kind of public benefit.

Neighborhood News

YMCA NIP Helps Homeowners Maintain Properties

by EditorFebruary 2004

If you own your home and have a low income, you may qualify for a grant that would pay for major home repairs. The NIP program focuses on correcting building code violations on the properties accepted for work. A city inspector determines the type and quantity of repairs to be done.

Business Briefs

by EditorFebruary 2004

Mario Costantini, owner of La Lune on Burleigh Street, received a Lincoln Gaines Award from the YMCA at its 7th Annual Martin Luther King Breakfast on January 19. Costantini won an award in the Strong Kids division for his commitment to strengthening the lives of children in Milwaukee’s central city. For over 14 years he […]

Business Spotlight

Soapies Laundromat

by EditorFebruary 2004December 2013

by Kevin Flaherty

Not many people would consider buying and operating a business open 15-plus hours a day, seven days a week, to be “retirement,” but Earnie Daniels and his wife Lue do. Earnie had worked 27 years at American Linen Supply on 10th and North, ran Aurora Health Care’s laundry facility for another 15 years, and wrapped up his career at Goodwill Industries.