Marquette University: Zilber Hall
Marquette University: Zilber Hall
Marquette University: Zilber Hall
Marquette University: Eckstein Hall
Marquette University: Eckstein Hall
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Tomorrow is the second of HMI’s events, Public Involvement in the Planning Process
PANELISTS:
Jim Draeger – Architectural Historian for the Wisconsin Historical Society
Michael D’Amato – Former Alderman of Milwaukee’s 3rd District
Daina Penkiunas – National Register Coordinator for the Wisconsin Historical Society
The relationship between Developers and Preservationists has never been an easy one. City development is on the rise, how can the process of community input more effectively aid and improve planning and development in Milwaukee?
The following sponsored post comes from Historic Milwaukee, Inc. Registration for the event is available on Urban Milwaukee. For more information on advertising with Urban Milwaukee please visit our advertising page.
Historic Milwaukee Inc. invites you to join us for A View of Our City in Four Acts: HMI’S 2009 Panel Discussion Series. This series brings together Milwaukee’s most tuned-in and interesting thinkers in an intimate setting. Listen and react to thoughtful discussions on Milwaukee’s built environment as influenced by history, law, design, art and politics. Creative genius behind the project is Attorney Bruce Block, who will be acting as Moderator for each discussion. Visit www.reinhartlaw.com to learn more about Bruce.
We are also holding a Cocktail Hour prior to each discussion. Speak one-on-one with the evening’s panelists and fellow attendees interested in our built environment while enjoying cocktails and substantial hors d’ouevres. Reservations for the Cocktail Hour are an additional $20.00 per person and limited to 20 people per evening. We are lining-up a stellar group of speakers. You will not want to miss this.
1. Milwaukee’s Comprehensive Plan, January 29, 2009
2. Public Involvement in the Planning Process, February 26, 2009
3. Joseph Zilber’s Neighborhood Initiative and Chicago’s New Communities Program, March 26, 2009
4. African American Settlement in Milwaukee Thursday, April 23, 2009
Location: Penthouse, 1000 N. Water St.
Time: 7:00PM-9:00PM
Parking: Attendees may use the public parking lot at 1000 N. Water St. The entrance ramp is located on the East side of the building, on Market Street. Volunteers will be stationed at the building’s street entrance and parking garage entrance to guide guests to the penthouse.
Ticket Price:*
Members of Historic Milwaukee $15.00 per discussion / $45.00 for series
Non-Members $20.00 per discussion / $65.00 for series
University and College Students $7.00 per discussion
Cocktail Hour: 6:00PM-7:00PM, $20.00 each or $50.00 for series. Reservations limited to 20 people per night
I hope you will be able to join us in exploring Milwaukee’s past, present and future.
*All Historic Milwaukee 2009 Guide Training Students can attend our Panel Discussions at no charge. To find out more about this in-depth course on Milwaukee’s history and architecture, please visit www.historicmilwaukee.org.
Even during this economic downturn the City of Milwaukee continues its efforts to cleanup environmentally contaminated sites within the city and prepare them for redevelopment. Superficially, this file would give blight designation to six city owned lots, in the Riverworks area, which will allow the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Milwaukee to obtain EPA funds to conduct remediation efforts. Once completed it would be the goal to put these lots out for possible redevelopment. This file was approved and will now go before the full Common Council.
File number 081419 proposed that the often delayed and long awaited missing link in the Beerline section of Riverwalk to be funded through the Department of Public Works and reimbursed by the property owner. The construction of this link, that abuts the Brewers Point Apartments, would be carried out by Titan Builders for $250,000 and should begin construction this spring with the intent of being completed within the year. This file was approved and will now go before the full Common Council.
File number 081431 would allow the library to apply for a Public Library Innovation Grant which would be used to extend the summer reading program in to a year round program. Alderman Davis pointed out that he brought the grant to the library staff’s attention and said “they have a great success rate, that if we leading them to water, they know how to drink”. This file was approved and will now go before the full Common Council.
What evidently has been a long an ongoing process to comply with a 2003 Department of Justice ruling in response to an American with Disabilities Act complaint will be going through another iteration. The 14th Amendment to the Riverwalk Development Agreement for Business Improvement District 15 would increase the budget for accessibility to $4.8 million. The original judgment included ten lifts, whereas the current plan will include six ramps and four lifts which should last better in Milwaukee’s climate. Progress has been made toward complying with the ruling in that the first of the new ramps has been completed and the Mason St. ramp will be completed shortly. This file was approved and will now go before the full Common Council.
Just about everyone in Milwaukee is ready for spring, right? Well in the event that you’re not, we have two pretty impressive videos to share with you that have a lot of snow (and Milwaukee) in them.
One was created by Erik West, and is a composition of tilt-shift photography featuring Milwaukee’s lower east, downtown, and the airport. Now that’s impressive in itself, but the fact that it was done during a snow storm makes it all the better. A rare chance to view the city in a completely different way than you normally would, with many shots taken from parking garages in and around downtown.
Fire (Jimmy Edgar Remix) from Erik West on Vimeo.
Hat tip to Mary Louise Schumacher, who linked to the video on her Art City blog.
The second is of the fun that can be had between the Beerline and Riverwest in Kilbourn Park. Kudos to reader Sam Dodge for putting it together.
Snow Day 2009 from Sam Dodge on Vimeo.
In some cities residents have been allowed to plant a variety of plants and flowers in the area between the curb and the sidewalk in an effort to beautify the neighborhood. This practice has generally been illegal within the City of Milwaukee but this may soon changes as file number 081117 intends to implement a planting policy that would allow planting within this strip of land. The file originally intended to allow this new policy within the 13th District but Alderman Bauman recommended the 4th district to be included as well. After some discussion the file was amended to allow this planting practice throughout the City of Milwaukee. It was approved and will now go before the full Common Council.
After being held at the January 28th, 2009 meeting of the Public Works Committee, the file which would allow the City of Milwaukee to apply for a 2009 Stormwater Best Management Practices Partnership grant from the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewage District that will be used in part for the construction of a green roof on the central library was brought back before the committee. It appears the confusion over the value of moving forward with this file was cleared up as it was quickly approved this time with no discussion and will now go before the full Common Council.
Although only a few development projects were on this commission meeting’s agenda the most insightful item was the presentation of the UWM Neighborhood Plan by the Universities Neighborhoods Association (UNA). Jeffrey Jordan presented the groups findings and laid out a few neighborhood issues. The group wants UWM to acknowledge that the “sudden growth of the university” has lead to problems such as overcrowding of the neighborhood. He also stated their desire to see the implementation of Chapter 17 which would penalizes students at UWM for off campus problems. Additionally, UNA wants future dorms to be planned with the neighbors and clearly doesn’t want to see dorms built at the Columbia Hospital site. Alderman Kovac spoke about UWM”s master planning program and stated that UWM’s plan to expand in Wauwatosa was a “terrible idea”. This update showed the ongoing difficulty of relations on the East Side between UWM and the neighborhood and also highlighted the City of Milwaukee’s efforts to encourage UWM to expand in downtown Milwaukee.
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I recently gave up and said, “fine, let the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee expand in Wauwatosa“. I argued this move would make life more difficult for students and that’s great because they will learn about the “real world”. Further I thought it was great that this move would allow the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to stay in Madison’s shadow. Of course I really think the best thing about the Wauwatosa site, will be the UW-Tosa t-shirts. It occurred to me that beyond these there are a few more “great” reasons for UW-Milwaukee to expand in Wauwatosa.
Of course none of these reasons are actually great, and neither are UW-Milwaukee’s stated reasons. For example, representatives from UW-Milwaukee have argued that by moving the Engineering School to Wauwatosa they will be able to collaborate with the Medical College of Wisconsin and tap into some of those R&D funds. Although there is some truth to this, the site itself doesn’t actually lend itself to much better collaboration than a downtown location, as either way you still would need to drive to other facilities. Now a downtown location may not facilitate collaboration with the Medical College of Wisconsin as well, but it offers the ability to easily collaborate with Johnson Controls, We Energies and build stronger connections with Marquette University, MSOE, and MATC.
Collaborating with the Medical College of Wisconsin on bio-technology and life science research, sounds great, but it misses a greater opportunity. UW -Milwaukee should focus on research where they could actually become a leader, instead of a second citizen to Madison. With the downtown partners UW -Milwaukee could take a leading role in research related to energy, water, and advanced manufacturing. Now that sounds like a great reason to me to locate downtown.
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