The “largest vacant lot in Riverwest” is in the news again. On November 22, US Senator Herb Kohl announced approval of federal funding for three major environmental initiatives in Milwaukee. Included is $300,000 to help clean up the former Johnson Controls site south of the corner of Bremen and Concordia Streets, once occupied by a battery manufacturing plant.
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Riverwest Receives More than $140,000 to Fund Green Space Projects
Riverwest’s Garden Park and the Beerline B Trail (to run south from Gordon Park at Humboldt and Locust to the North Avenue Dam) received $125,000 and $17,000 respectively in May to fund work on both projects…
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The Need for Leadership
How often events turn on the strength of leadership. The Milwaukee mayoral race is about leadership — not leadership as an abstract concept but the actual ability to guide, direct, influence and motivate. It is preferred that our next mayor be a leader. I don’t see that trait apparent in either of our choices.
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Alterra Coffee is Coming to Riverwest
The City has decided to sell the foreclosed-upon property at 2941-2955 N. Humboldt Blvd. known as the Post Teldyne building to Alterra Coffee Roasters for a cafe and wholesale bakery. (Developer Andy Busalacchi had originally proposed putting a condo development on the property but those plans fell through).
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City of Milwaukee Cleaning Up Its Act
The target this time is brownfields, a term coined by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to define “abandoned, idled, or under-utilized industrial and commercial facilities where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination.” The term brownfield was first used to distinguish developed land from unused suburban and rural land, referred to as “greenfield” sites.
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