You may have noticed an influx of business on Oakland as of late, but what you may have missed is something else — that many of these new shops are owned by women. Coincidence? Perhaps not, because while these women all have different stories to tell, they all have on thing in common — a will to succeed…
October 2004
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Riverwest Artists Association Creates Mural With Neighborhood Children
A new mural in honor of ArtWalk was created at 918 E. Center St. by Riverwest Artists Association member Melissa Dorn Richards, with the help of 12 children from La Escuela Fratney. It was unveiled Saturday, Sept. 25…
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Garden Park: The Story Continues
As reported earlier this year, Garden Park, at the corner of Bremen and Locust Streets, was one of two Milwaukee recipients of federal brownfield remediation money, a project in which Department of City Development brownfields specialist and Riverwest resident Benjamin Timm has played a key role. The award of $125,000, part of the first round of Wisconsin’s new Greenspace and Public Facilities grants, was announced at a joint press conference on May 20 by Mayor Tom Barrett and Governor Jim Doyle.
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Mayor’s Budget Matches Needs with Means
On September 22, the day before he presented his proposed 2005 Budget to the Common Council, Mayor Tom Barrett offered a briefing session highlighting areas of the proposal he believed be of measurable concern to Milwaukee neighborhoods…
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