Riverwest Co-op is moving ahead on plans to convert its garage space to a cafe. The Lincoln Neighborhood Redevelopment Corporation (LNRC) and Northcountry Cooperative Development Fund have agreed to loan more than $50,000 to the co-op to fund the project. . . .
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Posted inFurther Down Stream
September 2003
Aldermanic candidates – Riverwest Co-op Expansion – Center St. Daze – Flux Design – Baby Park renovation – Road Builders’ lobby – plans for Humboldt Bridge redecking – MPS makes cuts to driver ed
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D’Amato On Development: “Reknitting the Urban Fabric”
by Sonya Jongsma Knauss / photos by Tess Reiss
D’Amato, a supporter of New Urbanism-style city planning, notes that problems can result if developers build without neighborhood or city input. On a driving tour of his district, he points out buildings, both good and bad, that have gone up under his tenure as alderman. Looking at a house on Warren Street with huge garage doors facing the street on the first floor, he says, “Buildings like this detract from the value of the neighborhood.”
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Feral Cats: No Simple Solution
by Stacy Conroy In the April Pet Tales, Street Cats Don’t Live Happily Ever After, I wrote about the problems people cause when they feed stray cats or let their pet cats roam outside. Soon after writing that piece, I received a letter from Michelle, a fellow Riverwest resident. She told me of her involvement […]
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The Largest “Vacant Lot” in Riverwest
by Peter Schmidtke
The wind gusts stronger along Bremen Street, past the Riverwest Tavern on Auer Avenue. That’s because it knows it has three acres to gather steam. It’s not a UFO landing field, but it might as well be. A chain-linked fence with prickly barbed wire rings the perimeter, and a dozen or more padlocked monitoring wells protrude from stubbly yellow grass like rusty periscopes from stalled submarines.
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