Please join Mayor Tom Barrett as he delivers his State of the City Address
Mayor’s Reception 8:00 a.m.
Welcome 8:15 a.m.
State of the City Address 8:30 a.m.
Manpower
100 Manpower Place
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
RSVP by email to mayorrsvp@milwaukee.gov or by calling (414) 286-2200
The Cultural Alliance is delighted to present Carol Coletta, President of CEOs for Cities, a national cross-sector network of urban leaders dedicated to building and sustaining the next generation of great American cities. Carol will be joined by the Mt Auburn Associate consultant for the Milwaukee Regional Creative Economy Project, Michael Kane.
Carol is a highly sought after speaker on the success formula for cities and creative communities. In 2008 she was named one of the 50 most important urban experts by a leading European think tank and recently was named the recipient of the Lambda Alpha International 2009 International Journalism Award for her work with CEOs for Cities. For more information on Carol and her work, please go to CEOS for Cities. Here’s a connection to Carol’s excellent monograph, “Fostering the Creative City“.
Michael Kane, principal of Mt Auburn Associates, has been a practitioner as well as a researcher in the community and economic development field for more than 25 years. He specializes in regional creative economies, economic development planning, and sector analysis and organizing. Starting in 1999, Mt. Auburn has been the economic development leader in understanding and planning the creative economy. In fact, their first study was prior to Richard Florida publishing ‘Rise of the Creative Class’ and this study helped influence Florida’s work.
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MATC (corner of 6th and State Streets)
Main Campus Building
Milwaukee Conference Center Room M605
With the strong possibility that Milwaukee will be seeing streetcar service return to our streets in the coming years, we thought we should show some example systems from cities around the world.
Portland has led the way with transit infrastructure in the U.S. For example, it was the first U.S. city to bring modern streetcars to it’s streets.
The 2.6 mile Seattle South Lake Union Streetcar line started service in December 2007, and exceeded its first year ridership estimates three months ahead of schedule.
Vancouver is currently running these Bombardier Flexity streetcars as a demonstration project.
Reportedly, the largest tram network in the world, consisting of 152 miles of track, at least 500 trams, 28 routes, and 1,800 transit stops.
Amsterdam runs a variety of trams including the 100% low-floor Siemens Combino trams.
This isn’t the everyday service in Prague, but it sure looks like a fun way to ride the streetcar.
These are just a handful of the numerous systems operating around the world, hopefully soon Milwaukee will be added to this list.
The Zoning, Neighborhoods and Development Committee reviews issues relating to city development, zoning, historic preservation, incremental tax financing, building codes and housing projects.
The Zoning, Neighborhoods and Development Committee meetings start at 9:00 a.m. and are held in the Room 301-B, City Hall, unless otherwise noted.
The Community and Economic Development Committee hears matters relating to community development, block grants, job development, business improvement districts, city public relations, industrial land banks and revenue bonds, emerging business enterprises, recreation, cultural arts and the library system.
The Community and Economic Development Committee meetings start at 9:00 a.m. and are held in the Room 301-B, City Hall, unless otherwise noted.
All matters concerning county parks and parkways are the responsibility of this Committee. Members set policy for the parks department, organized recreation, cultural activities, the University Extension program, the Environmental Services Division of the Department of Public Works and Zoo park services. Members have jurisdiction over matters concerning the conservation of all uses of energy and make recommendations relating to conservation of air, water, energy and all other resources.
Warm up with complementary Fat tire beer and celebrate your admiration of biking with hundreds of other Milwaukee bike lovers at the 2010 Love Your Bike Party! Thank you to Trocadero’s for graciously hosting this year’s bash. More event details coming soon.
Trocadero
1758 N. Water St.
The Sixth PechaKucha Night in Milwaukee is going to be something special.
Why? Because it will be free, the first 20 people through the door get a copy of “Pow!” by Andy Nulman, Shopkeeper Ken will be DJing, and you’ll hear and watch fast paced presentations (20 slides that change automatically every 20 seconds) on making beer, the global impact of coffee, green homes, why people don’t (and do) like to dance, technology and sausage, the fact that humans actually have three brains, and much more!
Presenters include Mike Brenner, James Carlson, Jim Chambers, Fred Gillich, Steve Hawthorne, Ryan Matteson, David Ravel, and Jim Warchol.
Mark your calendars and see you there!
Where:
Sugar Maple
441 E. Lincoln Avenue (Lincoln and Kinnickinnic)
414-481-2393
Urban Economic Development Association of Wisconsin (UEDA)’s Annual Fundraising Event
Join us for a celebration of culture & diversity:
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