Dress up as Santa and come barreling through the streets of Milwaukee spreading holiday cheer and discovering hole-in-the-wall taverns.
Cafe Hollander
2608 N Downer Ave
For more information contact:
Shea Schachameyer
414-431-1761 x2
Urban Milwaukee’s Upcoming Events & Meetings Calendar should help you keep up to date on important events effecting our neighborhoods, the City of Milwaukee, and our region.
The Southeastern Watershed Trust (SWWT) needs public input and participation to ensure the plans accurately reflect our collective water quality concerns. On Tuesday, November 17th from 4:00-6:00pm the meeting will focus on reviewing the specific water quality problems in our [...]
Public Works Committee meetings start at 9:00 a.m. and are held in the Room 301-B, City Hall, unless otherwise noted.[...]
WHERE: Eaton Corp
4201 N. 27th Street
(27th Street entrance)
For more information click on the link provided below.
http://www.mkedcd.org/planning/plans/NearNorth/index.html
WHERE: Eaton Corp
4201 N. 27th Street
(27th Street entrance)
For more information click on the link provided below.
The Southeastern Watershed Trust (SWWT) needs public input and participation to ensure the plans accurately reflect our collective water quality concerns On Thursday, November 19th from 4:00-6:00pm the meeting will focus on reviewing the specific water quality problems in [...]
We’ve had a good run here at UrbanMilwaukee.com, but we’re shutting our doors, packing up the U-Haul, and moving to Portland, OR. Well, no, not quite. We spent last weekend exploring the great City of Portland, and the thought did cross our minds but we’re not going anywhere. In fact we’ve just moved into a new office in downtown Milwaukee, and are doubling down on our efforts to Champion Urban Life in the Cream City.
Instead of moving, we’re hoping to bring a little bit of Portland back to the Cream City. These are just a few of the features that make Portland a great city:
We’ll have more on Portland and what we ides could be brought home to Milwaukee in upcoming articles, but here’s a quick photo gallery so you can see some of Portland’s great features.
Cambridge Commons
Cambridge Commons
Downer Garage Construction
Downer Garage Construction
Downer Garage Construction
Please join the Milwaukee Riverkeepers for a Southeastern Wisconsin Watershed Trust Watershed Action Team (WAT) meeting.
The Southeastern Watershed Trust (SWWT) needs public input and participation to ensure the plans accurately reflect our collective water quality concerns On Thursday, November 19th from 4:00-6:00pm the meeting will focus on reviewing the specific water quality problems in our rivers, as well as discussing the ongoing development and refinement of targeted goals and prioritization of projects for reducing pollutants to our waterways
Draft Chapters looking at water quality conditions and pollution loading to both the Menomonee and KK are available on the SWWT website at http://www.swwtwater.org/home/documents.cfm.
When: November 19th, 2009 4:00 PM through 6:00 PM
Location:
Sixteenth Street Community Health Center’s Parkway Clinic
2906 S. 20th Street
Lower Level Conference Room
Milwaukee, WI
United States
Contact
Phone: 414-287-0207 x229
Email: cheryl_nenn@milwaukeeriverkeeper.org
Please join the Milwaukee Riverkeepers for a Southeastern Wisconsin Watershed Trust Watershed Action Team (WAT) meeting.
The Southeastern Watershed Trust (SWWT) needs public input and participation to ensure the plans accurately reflect our collective water quality concerns. On Tuesday, November 17th from 4:00-6:00pm the meeting will focus on reviewing the specific water quality problems in our rivers, as well as discussing the ongoing development and refinement of targeted goals and prioritization of projects for reducing pollutants to our waterways
Draft Chapters looking at water quality conditions and pollution loading to both the Menomonee and KK are available on the SWWT website at http://www.swwtwater.org/home/documents.cfm.
When: November 17th, 2009 4:00 PM through 6:00 PM
Location:
Milwaukee County Cooperative Extension
9501 W Watertown Plank Road
Wauwatosa, WI
United States
Contact
Phone: 414-287-0207 x229
Email: cheryl_nenn@milwaukeeriverkeeper.org
The Public Works Committee is responsible for physical services provided by the city such as street and alley maintenance, waste collection, disposal and recycling, sewer, water and flood control projects, assessments, public buildings, land and waterways.
Public Works Committee meetings start at 9:00 a.m. and are held in the Room 301-B, City Hall, unless otherwise noted.
The Milwaukee Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) administers Milwaukee’s historic preservation ordinance, adopted in 1981, which provides certain kinds of legal protection for buildings or sites that have been declared historic by the Common Council. The HPC is responsible for designating historic landmarks and historic districts and for approving Certificates of Appropriateness (COAs) for permission to alter historic buildings.
The HPC meets monthly on Mondays in City Hall, Room 301A, 200 E. Wells Street at 3:00 P.M. unless otherwise indicated.
Although months ago UWM entered into an agreement to purchase a portion of the Milwaukee County Grounds for the purpose of expansion, the deadline for public input into UWM’s Master Plan past just this week. Regardless if this input will be considered going forward or not, it’s worth looking to see what the UWM community thinks about the expansion plans.
There of course were some who supported the expansion plans in Wauwatosa, but clearly the vast majority of feedback regarding the expansion in Wauwatosa was in voiced in opposition. The reasons were varied, and included environmental and sustainability issues of the proposed site that don’t fit with the sustainability goals of the overall Master Plan and UWM. Others argued that that UWM should engage in urban infill development, to avoid the destruction of green space. Another commenter aptly pointed out that Chancellor Santiago himself has argued that the “city is a big draw.” Take a minute to read just a handful of the comments yourself.
A student points out how this plan seems to be inconsistent with UWM’s School of Urban Planning.
The plan inspires me to go into planning. I am curious about the roll the Urban Planning program at UWM played in this. I disagree with putting “Innovation Park” out west. Doesn’t seem to fit in with the environmental sustainability portion of the plan. Seems to me a car is required.
A graduate student argues that we need to protect our green space, and conduct infill development.
Why should UWM be hypocritical in eliminating green spaces in MKE county for the sake of an engineering school facility? If UWM believes in being responsible to the vitality of future generations and our own society’s survival, we shouldn’t endorse plans that result in net loses in green space. Protect the county grounds and develop in an under-utilized, abandoned sector of the city of Milwaukee. There are tons of places like this that our own urban planning students research all the time, make the purchase and build at a neglected urban site.
This alumni believes as I, and Chancellor Santiago supposes to, that the city is a big draw for the school.
I would strongly urge against building an engineering campus out in the suburbs. As Mr. Santiago himself says, the city is a big draw for the school. As an alumni who now lives in the city because of my positive experience while attending UWM , I agree. So why would you want to put a building in a location that has absolutely none of the draw of an urban environment? That engineering building belongs downtown.
This community member points out that sprawl is a “blight on our landscape and culture,” and that “what makes UWM an attractive place to go to school is its setting in Milwaukee not ‘anyplace-USA’ suburbia.”
As a native east-sider and son of a former UWM professor, I very much feel a part of the UWM community. Though I attended UW-Madison (graduating in 2001) I audited several UWM courses in subsequent years. I am vehemently opposed to expansion plans that entail a satellite campus in Wauwatosa and see it as a giant boondoggle. Downtown Milwaukee offers abundant room to expand as well as the opportunity for numerous synergies existing infrastructure, businesses, hospitals, and other institutions. UWM is an urban school and should remain such. Suburban sprawl is a blight on our landscape and culture, and it strikes me as outlandish that Milwaukee’s premiere public university would consider subsidizing it. Furthermore, as a young(ish) individual, I feel that I am still in touch with the mindset of today’s students, and I am extremely doubtful of the appeal that a suburban campus would have to them. What makes UWM an attractive place to go to school is its setting in Milwaukee not “anyplace-USA” suburbia. Young people are increasingly flocking to the cities, and no one is going to want to live in Wauwatosa. This would leave long commutes as the only option an unsavory prospect.
A graduate student in urban planning, points out the problem of the Wauwatosa site being an auto-centric location, argues that these partnerships don’t require being located in Wauwatosa, and is concerned that by breaking the Engineering School in parts it could disrupt the continuity between the programs.
Throughout the plan it refers to connectivity, however there is little mention of how a campus located in Wauwatosa will be accessible to the rest of the school. Other than driving I don’t know a way to get to the Wauwatosa campus. While here is a bus line that travels to the county grounds it is an hour ride from the main UWM campus. The partnerships that UWM hopes to create at the county grounds are theoretical at this point and there is no reason that these partnerships could not be created without the Wauwatosa campus. From what I understand the graduate program would be in Wauwatosa and the undergrads still atUWM . What about the continuity between the two programs? How are undergrads better served by being separated from graduate research and expertise? There is plenty of land in the downtown and harbor area to fully fit all the buildings planned for the Wauwatosa campus. The only benefit I see from a Wauwatosa campus is cheap land and cheap labor provided to companies located at the county grounds in the form of graduate students.
A student points out that investing $150 million in Wauwatosa will only continue to encourage urban sprawl, while the university should be working to bring people back to the City of Milwaukee.
I really like the plans for the most part. Especially all of the new proposed buildings on the southwest part of campus. The one thing that I really do NOT agree with is investing $150 mil. in Wauwatosa. I firmly believe that UWM should do everything in its power to keep the campus as cohesive as possible, and as close together as possible. I see far more bad than good in locating the research so far away from the main campus. Downtown would definitely be a alternative. Instead of encouraging urban sprawl in the Greater Milwaukee Area, we should be luring students and families alike back into the City of Milwaukee. Commuting is already an issue in Milwaukee, don’t make the problem worse by spreading out the campus so much. Thank you for your consideration.
To be clear, there were some comments that spoke positively of the Wauwatosa site. A graduate student thought the project might “be achievable if reduced in scale, or maybe becomes a strictly virtual connection for the near term, while one staff member argued that as freshman come from areas outside the city it’s fine to expand UWM in Wauwatosa.
It is doubtful that these comments will impact the final decision as much as the potential lack of adequate funding or the will of Chancellor Santiago, but it is good to see that the alumni, and students of UWM, that took the time to comment, felt UWM should expand within Milwaukee, albeit downtown, or on the existing campus. Further it is not that they were opposed to the project because it was in someones backyard, in this case the opposition to the project was generally because it wasn’t in UWM’s backyard.
The Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin along with the Milwaukee Junior Cycling Team and UW-M Cycling Club present:
Milwaukee Bike Swap 2009
UW-Milwaukee Union Ballroom
Sunday December 6th
10am – 3pm
$5 entry fee donation, $3 with UWM ID, kids under 12 are free!
This is a great opportunity to clear out your old and surplus bicycle gear. Retailers, Individuals, and Clubs will be in attendance with some great deals on everything from parts and accessories to clothing and complete bikes! Perfect place to get those holiday presents for the cycling enthusiast in your life!
Register for a 8′ table or just the space.
To register to sell your items please return the attached registration form with payment before Dec 1st to
BFW c/o Jake Newborn
1845 N Farwell Suite 100
Milwaukee, WI 53202
questions or info email Jake at jacob.newborn@bfw.org
All proceeds go to benefit the BFW, MJCT, and UWM-CC
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