by Jim Loew, photo Vince Bushell Perhaps only in Riverwest is it possiblethat a funeral home can be convertedinto a prosperous hot dog eatery andbar. Yet this is what the new owners of House of Frank N Stein did. Ismail Ozcan, who formerly owned arestaurant in Sussex and a retail clothingstore on Brady Street, purchased […]
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Boxed In!
by Jackie Reid Dettloff When Tom Tolan wrote his community history of Riverwest, he began by focusing on the Milwaukee River: Today, many people think of it as little more than a boundary between neighborhoods, a basement for bridges but I want to give the river its proper due as the most important constant in the […]
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Inside Story – Jewel
The scene is the Jewel-Osco store on the corner of Humboldt and North — the same store that caused such controversy when it was first proposed back in 1997. Local residents crowded into meetings of the City Zoning Committee and the Common Council to express their opposition to the development, but all to no avail. Jewel-Osco came into Riverwest with promises of providing a quality supermarket that would be an asset to the neighborhood and providing jobs to local residents.
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Riverwest Renewal
Inside Fuel Cafe one May afternoon hipsters guzzle java in the smoky din to the whirr of the coffee grinder. Down the street, shoppers peruse naughty trinkets on the shelves of The Tool Shed, a female-friendly erotic boutique. A few blocks down the street, Riverwesters chow down on spicy African cuisine at Club Timbuktu. What do all of these businesses have in common? All are small, locally owned enterprises located on Center Street in Riverwest.
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First Person: Uninsured
With health insurance, I might have visited a doctor sooner and done without the eventual trip to the emergency room and overnight hospital stay. I might have visited a doctor directly after leaving sick from work, after the first sharp pains in my abdomen, and not waited until I lost so much blood that I lost consciousness.
By working full time at a tree nursery, and with the gracious help of my aunt who charged me no rent, I was able to pay for the five classes I attended at UWM.
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