401 Building in Downtown sold
An affiliate of Phoenix Investors, LLC (Phoenix) has purchased the office office building located at 401 E. Kilbourn Ave. (401 Building), in Downtown Milwaukee from D&K Management LLC. Phoenix paid $2,350,000 for the four story structure located on the corner of Kilbourn and Milwaukee Streets. For the past 21 years, Phoenix has operated its home office at 1818 N. Farwell Ave, between Kane and Royall Places on Milwaukee’s East Side. The real estate investment company will move 30 employees to its new location by the end of November. The 41,000-square foot 401 Building is currently anchored by Associated Bank on the ground level and occupied by four additional office tenants. The building was formerly the business banking office for Associated Bank. Phoenix will occupy 21,000 square feet of the building including the entire second floor and the majority of the third floor. “Our new offices not only provide more space for our growing staff to work, but also an opportunity for us to strengthen our company wellness program,” Frank Crivello, executive vice president of Phoenix Investors, said in a statement. “The health, well being and happiness of our employees is a big priority to Phoenix, and this new office space gives us the opportunity to provide our team with inhouse options to take care of themselves.” Renovation of the new Phoenix space will be led by Korb and Associates Architects, Milwaukee, for architectural and interior design services on the project. Marks stressed that the new location is key, because the real estate investment company is dedicated to being part of the new energy emerging in the downtown Milwaukee area. “Between the new investments by Northwestern Mutual, the Milwaukee Bucks, and other high profile projects in the community, Downtown Milwaukee is where Phoenix wants to be located,” he said.
Sep 28th, 2015 by Dave Reid
Brady Street apartment development gets one OK and one deferral after lengthy design discussion
The development team behind a Brady Street apartment building in Milwaukee showed three different design options during a joint meeting of two city committees, generated a little confusion and a lot of discussion, and ended up gaining one of two needed approvals. The meeting followed about a year of work on the proposal at Brady Street and Humboldt Avenue. Ogden Multifamily Partners LLC is the developer of the three-story building, with 23 market-rate apartments and sidewalk-level retail space. Earlier iterations had four floors and more apartments. Ogden was seeking separate approvals on Monday from the Milwaukee Plan Commission and Historic Preservation Commission. The building required Historic Preservation Commission approval because Brady Street is a designated historic area. While city planners working for the Plan Commission were supportive of the three-story designs, project architect Engberg Anderson revised the building exterior after talks with area Ald. Nik Kovac and the historic preservation staff. After working out that Option B proposal in mid-September, the developer team presented a third option to the two commissions at the meeting on Monday. It spurred a discussion that meandered between whether a new building in the historic Brady Street area should skew more modern or classic, the proper size of the windows and how best to have it fit in with neighboring buildings. “It can look either old or new or some combination,” Kovac said. “But it does need to look like it fits on the site.” A key shift between the various designs is whether the building’s third floor facing Brady Street should be recessed about six inches and have a darker exterior material to make the overall building seem less large. After about two hours of discussion, the Plan Commission approved a rezoning for that building with the Option B design and the darker exterior on the third floor. The Historic Preservation Commission decided to delay its final decision until next month to work on more design revisions. Those could include changing the balconies and a signature vertical window overlooking Humboldt Avenue at the building corner. Developer Peter Ogden said that second design option is acceptable to the team and the changes could be incorporated into the project. “We’re building this to own it and not to sell it,” Ogden said, adding of the third option that, “it was another opportunity to look at something.” “That’s the spirit behind what we did.” Ogden said he would like to break ground on the project later this year or in early 2016. The delay in the historic preservation discussion is not likely to affect the project schedule. The commission will meet next on Oct. 19, which is before the Milwaukee Common Council is scheduled to take up the project for its next layer of reviews.
Sep 28th, 2015 by Jeramey Jannene
The many, many, many escapes of Eliza Blue
Eliza Blue was hard on the eyes, but not in the way Donald Trump thinks that about Carly Fiorina. In 1905, the Milwaukee woman permanently blinded a man by throwing acid in his face. Ten years later, Eliza blinded another man the same way. She was also Milwaukee’s greatest escape artist since Harry Houdini left town. As she was being taken from the courtroom following her second conviction in 1915, Eliza escaped from custody. She was captured, escaped again, was recaptured, escaped a third time, was recaptured again – and, when finally locked up inside the state penitentiary at Waupun, became the only female ever to escape from there. According to a 1929 newspaper story, before any of the above happened, Eliza Blue was already famous as “the only Milwaukee mother ever to give birth to a son with two heads.” Whether Tobie Blue was actually endowed with two craniums – earlier newspaper stories referred to him as “deformed,” “afflicted” and “half-witted” – and whether, as the Milwaukee Sentinel article also reported, he did a brief stint as a circus freak, is uncertain. But his mother fiercely loved him, and his younger siblings Flossie and Douglas, and that’s why Homer Chavers ended up with a face full of concentrated lye on Nov. 1, 1905. He and the Blues had separate rooms in a crowded tenement called the “Dove Cote” near 3rd and Wells Streets, then part of the Downtown section known as “The Badlands” for its concentration of black residents, gambling joints and fleshpots. When Chavers came home and found Tobie Blue in his room, he not very kindly threw the 8-year-old boy out. “In the colored district Eliza has won a reputation by her battles for her children,” the Sentinel reported. “Any remark which she considered derogatory to her babes … transforms the woman, it’s said, into a tigress.” Toby went crying to his mother, she opened a can of lye and pounded on Chavers’ door. Her face was the last thing he saw. In jail three months awaiting trial for assault with intent to commit mayhem, Eliza was a one-woman “reception committee, general entertainment committee, cheerer of depressed spirits and jester-in-chief,” reported the Journal. “(The) women’s ward is a queer conglomeration of the bad, and the half bad and the vicious and the ashamed, and they all look toward black Eliza for relief and amusement. And ‘Liza does not fail them.” When a doctor asked if there was anything she needed, Eliza said a prescription for a can of beer would be nice. At her trial, noted the Journal, she “appeared more like a child, pleased and interested by the novelty of a new experience.” Eliza ignored Chavers, sitting with bandages over his disfigured face, and whatever questions she didn’t feel like answering. Her only outward show of concern came before Judge A.C. Brazee sentenced her to Waupun (the state women’s prison at Taycheedah didn’t open until 1933) for five years. “Please, Judge, I hope you’ll see that […]
Sep 28th, 2015 by Dave Reid
Phoenix Investors buys downtown Milwaukee office building and will move operations there
Milwaukee developer Phoenix Investors LLC is moving to downtown Milwaukee to expand after buying a four-story office building for $2.35 million. Phoenix Investors currently is on North Farwell Avenue in the long-time office space of one of its founders, executive vice president Frank Crivello. Phoenix will move 30 employees to the office a company affiliate bought on 401 E. Kilbourn Ave. in Milwaukee. The company will hire 10 more people to keep up with a growing portfolio of industrial buildings. “After an exhaustive search of downtown office buildings, we couldn’t be more thrilled with its proximity to our business relationships and the Milwaukee entertainment venues,” said Phoenix managing director David Marks. Phoenix is a growing real estate investor that specializes in buying shuttered industrial buildings, renovating them and leasing them to new tenants. Its Milwaukee projects include renovating the former Goldmann’s department store on West Historic Mitchell Street into a clinic for the Gerald L. Ignace Indian Health Center. D & K Management LLC, which counts Milwaukee real estate investor David Winograd as its agent, sold the Kilbourn Avenue building to Phoenix. Associated Bank anchors the building and it has four other office tenants. Built in 1996, it has 46,600 square feet of space, according to city records. Phoenix plans to occupy the Kilbourn Avenue building’s second floor and most of its third level. It will spend $500,000 renovating the new space, adding an exercise and yoga room, locker room and nap room, for example. Milwaukee-based architect Korb and Associates is designing the new space. Phoenix will move in by the end of November. “Our new offices not only provide more space for our growing staff to work, but also an opportunity for us to strengthen our company wellness program,” Crivello said.
Sep 28th, 2015 by Jeramey Jannene
Former FOX 6 sports reporter Jen Lada launches national ESPN radio show
Since joining ESPN almost a year ago, former WITI-TV FOX 6 sports reporter and anchor Jen Lada has appeared on a number of radio and TV shows for the network. Starting tonight at 8 p.m. locally, Lada is launching a new national radio show on ESPN radio called “Jorge & Jen,” co-hosted by Jorge Sedano. With more than 15 years of radio broadcast experience, Sedano hosted “Sedano & Stink” with Mark Schlereth when he joined ESPN in 2013. Since March, he has hosted “The Sedano Show” at 6 p.m. on the syndicated network. The placement of “Jorge & Jen” in the later time slot means more exposure on more stations that switch to the national shows when they don’t have local shows of their own. That means, Lada, who was a regular contributor on 540 ESPN, will have a chance at a much larger audience. After moving on from FOX 6, Lada was an anchor and reporter in the Chicago area for Comcast SportsNet. Being in a Top 5 market, she was able to gain the national exposure needed for a gig with cable television’s largest sports and entertainment outlet. “Jorge & Jen” is part of a new lineup for ESPN, starting today on ESPN affiliated radio stations, ESPNradio.com, the ESPN app, SiriusXM, Apple iTunes, Slacker Radio and TuneIn. The show will air on 540 ESPN, except when local and national play-by-play coverage pre-empts it. The rest of the schedule is (CDT): 5-9 a.m.: Mike & Mike 9 a.m.-noon: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz Noon-3 p.m.: Russillo & Kanell 3-6 p.m.: The Right Time with Bomani Jones 6-8 p.m.: Jalen & Jacoby 8-10 p.m.: Jorge & Jen 10 p.m.-1 a.m.: The Freddie Coleman Show 1-5 a.m.: SportsCenter All Night with Jay Reynolds The “Mike & Mike” show broadcast from Wisconsin this morning in Green Bay, getting ready for the Packers’ Monday Night Football game on ESPN. There’s no doubting that Lada will be talking about the Green and Gold on her show this evening.
Sep 28th, 2015 by Dave Reid
City worker who deals with drug houses charged with having one
A City of Milwaukee employee whose job includes evicting occupants of drug houses has been charged with keeping a drug house herself. Regina Sims, 45, is charged with being party to the crime, according to court records and a criminal complaint that also charges her son, Romero V. Ross, 23, and another man, Timothy J. Rawls, 28. Her son is charged with being party to the crime of keeping a drug house and possession with intent to deliver marijuana, both felonies. Rawls is charged with possession with intent to deliver marijuana and possession with intent to deliver heroin, both felonies, according to the complaint. Sims is employed as a property management program coordinator for the Department of Neighborhood Services and has been with the department since January 2013, according to DNS spokesman Todd N. Weiler. The department is aware of the charges against Sims and has initiated an internal investigation into the matter, Weiler said in a statement. Sims is on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation, according to Weiler. Reached by phone, he did not know if Sims is being paid during the investigation. According to the criminal complaint, Milwaukee police executed a search warrant Sept. 8 at Sims’ home on W. Rio Ave. on Milwaukee’s northwest side. Someone had reported multiple instances of drug dealing going on there over the course of about a year. Officers found a safe containing more than 21/2 pounds of marijuana in different plastic bags, five corner cut bags of heroin weighing 4.1 grams, a digital scale and 4.1 grams of heroin, the complaint says. Police also found ammunition, grips and a magazine for a 9mm handgun and a 9mm semiautomatic pistol between the mattress and box spring of Sims’ bed, although her son claimed the gun belongs to him. Four plastic bags containing $3,600 also were found, according to the complaint. Sims, who arrived home during the search, told police she owns the home but denied any knowledge of drugs or drug dealing there, even though the house smelled of marijuana and she is responsible for knowing signs of a drug house, according to the complaint. Rawls told police that he and Ross are friends and that all of the marijuana in Sims’ house was his own, according to the complaint. Rawls said he kept drugs at Sims’ house because there are children at his house whom he did not want exposed to drugs, according to the complaint. Sims, Ross and Rawls all remained free Monday — Sims on a $1,000 signature bond, Ross on a $250 signature bond and Rawls on $1,000 cash bail, according to court records.
Sep 28th, 2015 by Dave Reid
Uline founders want massive effort to anchor floating bog
A major political donor to Gov. Scott Walker wants state approval for a project designed to keep a 12-acre floating bog away from his northern Wisconsin property by permanently fastening it to the bottom of the lake. The plan by Richard E. Uihlein, CEO of Pleasant Prairie-based Uline Corp., is unprecedented for the sprawling Chippewa Flowage; it calls for crews to use barges, a crane and a pile driver to pound large posts through the bog and anchor it to the lake bed. The construction-style scale of the project, outlined in an Aug. 17 memo to the Department of Natural Resources, is raising objections on a lake that has long been known for big muskies and rugged, wooded shorelines. It’s also the second of two property issues involving the Uihlein family and the DNR in recent months — the other involving their proposed purchase of state-owned lake frontage in Vilas County. Uihlein’s problem on the flowage: Buffeted by winds, the bog has blocked lake access on his property for much of the last two summers. This summer, he hired a tugboat that normally operates on the Mississippi River to push it away. But the bog returned. The construction of a dam on the Chippewa River in 1924 created the flowage — Wisconsin’s third largest lake. The land was once the home of an American Indian village, a church, a cemetery and vast stretches of wetlands and bogs. Over time, some of the bogs floated to the surface, and have subsisted for decades. The floating masses in some cases are big and thick enough to walk on and have sprouted stands of mature trees. “All you need is a wrong wind and those things can travel two, three miles,” said John Detloff, owner of Indian Trail Resort on the flowage. Detloff once tried to use a cable to hold a football field-sized bog to an island that was threatening his dock. “A stiff wind pulled the cable apart like nothing,” he said. But Uihlein’s project to relocate the bog in a northern bay of the flowage would take place on a far grander scale. It will require approval from the DNR; Xcel Energy Inc., a utility company that owns the lake bed; and perhaps the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In his memo to the DNR, Eric Hagman, a representative of Uihlein, said crews would use “multiple high horsepower boats to push the bog away from the Uihlein property,” then move it from the southern end of Kavanaugh Bay to the northern end next to land managed by the DNR. Eight barges would be tied together where a pile hammer and Manitowoc Co. crane would be used to pound 50 large columns — 4 feet in diameter — through the bog and into the bottom of the lake to keep the tangle of roots, sphagnum moss and other greenery in place. It’s expected that the pilings would rise “no more than 15 feet above the surface of the bog to minimize […]
Sep 27th, 2015 by Dave Reid
Campaign adviser to Joe Davis charged in elaborate check-kiting scheme
When Ald. Joe Davis announced last year that he was running for Milwaukee mayor, he said he wanted to take on the city’s rampant crime. Who knew that Davis would have to start with his own campaign? Donald Kernan Jr. — a campaign consultant and media adviser to the Davis campaign — was charged earlier this month with 12 felonies and three misdemeanors for an elaborate check-kiting scheme at area banks. Kernan also has done some campaign work in recent months for state Sen. Lena Taylor, a Milwaukee Democrat also weighing a mayoral bid. A criminal complaint accuses Kernan of writing 38 bogus checks for nearly $250,000 on a worthless business account, using those nonexistent funds to open accounts with at least five banks. He then quickly made actual cash withdrawals for himself and rang up debit card charges at high-end shoe stores such as Christian Louboutin Boutique andGiuseppe-Zanotti and at Potawatomi Hotel & Casino — all before authorities caught up with him. Kernan is accused of beginning the scheme in May and continuing it through August. Among the financial institutions that were hoodwinked by Kernan were BMO Harris Bank, Wells Fargo Bank, Johnson Bank, Associated Bank and U.S. Bank. There could be additional charges. Prosecutors are looking into his dealings with PNC Bank, UW Credit Union and others. “Investigators from the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office are continuing to determine the full scope of defendant Kernan’s fraudulent banking activities,” the complaint says. Kernan, who is in the Milwaukee County Jail, could not be reached for comment. He is being held on a felony count of failing to appear in an unrelated Illinois criminal case. His attorney did not return calls. Davis acknowledged in a brief interview last week that his campaign paid $12,100 to one of Kernan’s firms, Black Consulting, in the first half of the year, representing about half of Davis’ total expenditures during that six-month span. Black Consulting was paid for campaign consulting, media work and a rental fee. The Milwaukee alderman said he fired Kernan earlier this year and alerted prosecutors to his shenanigans. “We did some background on him and found out he was not very forthcoming, and we turned over some information to the district attorney, so they took appropriate action,” Davis said, declining to be more specific. “We did the right thing, Dan.” Assistant District Attorney Kurt Benkley, who is handling the case, did not return calls late last week. What’s not clear is why Davis didn’t do his background check before bringing Kernan on board. Records show that Kernan was charged in April 2014 with two felony counts of identity theft in Lake County, Ill. A warrant was issued for Kernan’s arrest in February when he failed to show up in court. Even before that, the states of Washington and Wisconsin issued cease-and-desist orders against Kernan and his company, DreamerTopia LLC, for selling bogus financial products to several investors. Those orders say a Washington resident sent Kernan about $30,000 — most of […]
Sep 27th, 2015 by Dave Reid
Cat whisperer and rescuer Julie Krawczyk
OnMilwaukee / Too Much Metal: What do you do for work and play? Julie Krawczyk: My day job is writing code; I’m a computer programmer. That pays for my night “job” which is taking in and fixing up Milwaukee’s homeless cats and kittens. I take them off the street, fix them up and flip them to new owners. Kind of like flipping houses only much dirtier, cuter and a negative income. OnMilwaukee / Too Much Metal: What side of town do you live on? Krawczyk: East Side for life! OnMilwaukee / Too Much Metal: Why do you do what you do? Krawczyk: Because I’m good at it I guess. I know what to do when most people don’t. When someone finds kittens / cats living in their neighborhood or under their porch – or strays – it’s hard to know where to start. But I know the ropes now and I have a great network of resources and help, so now it’s my gig. I help people to help the animals they find. Besides that, though, it’s rewarding of course. Turning some animal’s life around and upgrading his / her situation, that’s pretty cool. I get to see the life these guys get after I found them covered in flies, skin and bones, eating garbage, living in a junk yard, etc. I get to see photos of them lounging in some giant picture window seat or snoozing in a plush pink personalized bed or cuddled up sleeping on their 7-year-old human’s neck. And I can remember where I found each of them and think, “you used to live in an abandoned garage, and now look at ya.” OnMilwaukee / Too Much Metal: What is your favorite or least favorite smell in Milwaukee? Krawczyk: Least is whatever is under the 27th street viaduct. It smells like my cat’s breath after she eats Fancy Feast. Nasty. It’s a very odd smell to be in the air. Didn’t think you’d get a cat-centric answer to that one did you? Best is the smells of summer coming. The first grass cutting, the first neighbor’s barbecue. Even the stinky beach air, because it means it’s summer. OnMilwaukee / Too Much Metal: What is your hope for Milwaukee? Krawczyk: Well since this is an animal-related week, I’ll say some of my animal-related hopes are coming true. I had schemed and hoped for a low-cost spay / neuter clinic in Milwaukee, and the Wisconsin Humane Society just opened one in July, so that’s a dream come true. $75 per cat or $105 per dog. This will help a lot of lower income folks be responsible pet owners and fix their animals, hopefully cutting down on unwanted litters living as strays or entering the shelter system. Our Animal Control agency (MADACC) was a mess, but it’s improving steadily. It used to be that a stray cat entering MADACC had less than a 50 percent chance of getting out of there alive after their seven-day hold. It’s still not […]
Sep 27th, 2015 by Dave Reid
‘Bucks should back off from closing Fourth Street
Former Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist, widely regarded as one of the leaders who laid the groundwork for downtown’s resurgence, caught a train back to his former stomping grounds on Thursday to talk about the Park East and arena developments. He was a speaker at a Commercial Association of Realtors Wisconsin Rainmaker Event on North Milwaukee Street. But before the event, he sat down for an interview in the Milwaukee Public Market to share his thoughts. Norquist was Milwaukee mayor from 1988 to 2004, and was CEO of Congress for the New Urbanism in Chicago until stepping down in 2013. He still has a general disapproval of public subsidies for development, but said he agrees with the city support for the Milwaukee Bucks arena. He however opposes vacating North Fourth Street between West Highland and West Juneau avenues to create a public plaza between the arena and a Bucks-owned “live block” with restaurants and bars. Here’s an excerpt from Norquist’s interview with the Milwaukee Business Journal. Q: What are your thoughts on the things that are happening in the Park East with the Bucks’ proposals and other projects progressing east of the river? A: “I’m really pleased a lot of development has happened along the corridor, like Manpower and the Beerline and the stuff along Water Street that is leading toward downtown. I’m disappointed the county put those restrictions on the land. I think it would have developed a lot faster and there would have been more competition. “I think the elected officials, Tom Barrett and the others did what they had to do. Basketball is a very urban sport. It’s the most urban sport. It’s the one professional sport that you see a lot of African-Americans attend, unlike baseball which doesn’t appeal as much as it used to. “It’s an inner-city sport, so it would have been bad to lose that team. It’s always been ugly when that happens, especially in a small market like Milwaukee. I don’t have any fault for anybody. I think Milwaukee would have survived without it, but it’s good to have it.” Q: Do you have thoughts about the way the city and the county structured their incentive packages? A: “Not really. There’s only one thing I think they can correct. It’s not really in the Bucks’ best interest to close Fourth Street. It’s an idea that was done a lot in the ’60s and ’70s. Kansas City created a sports and entertainment district that didn’t work very well. “They only play 41 games. It’s not going to help them. The basketball arena is in the middle of a downtown. You don’t need an entertainment district around it. If they want to run a couple bars around it near the stadium, fine, but I don’t think you need to close the streets. They could close it on game night I suppose if you wanted to. “I don’t think it’s really going to help the Bucks. Their forte is sports and getting people to spend money […]
Sep 25th, 2015 by Jeramey Jannene
Arena district board hires team to negotiate Milwaukee Bucks lease, bond issue
The governing board for the new downtown Milwaukee arena has chosen its team for negotiating the 30-year lease with the Milwaukee Bucks and issuing the bond that will fund most of the public contribution to the project. The team, which consists of several national and local firms with experience in NBA or other professional sports arena projects, will start work on lease negotiations immediately, and will issue the bond once the lease negotiations are underway. Barrett Sports Group LLC, based in Manhattan Beach, Calif., will lead the negotiations for the Wisconsin Center District. The boutique consulting firm, led by principal Dan Barrett, most recently guided the development of the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento. That project bears a strong resemblance to the Bucks project, in that it helped Sacramento keep its NBA franchise the Kings, which it was also in danger of losing to Seattle. “I believe we have a championship team to help with these negotiations to get a championship-level arena that will house a championship-caliber franchise,” said Scott Neitzel, Wisconsin Center District chairman and Wisconsin Department of Administration secretary. Husch Blackwell was chosen for special counsel negotiations. That firm also worked on the Golden 1 Center deal, which is the most recent NBA project. Morgan Stanley’s regional office, under Randy Campbell’s practice, will do the investment banking. Three local firms will also serve on the team. Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc. will serve as financial adviser. Quarles & Brady LLP will serve as the bond counsel, and Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, the law firm currently advising the Wisconsin Center District, will continue in that capacity. Neitzel did not provide any details on the timeline for the bond issue or a deadline for lease negotiations, but said the team will work as fast as possible. The 17-member Wisconsin Center District board was impressed by the caliber of the team, and approved all of the selections. Neitzel has authority to approve the lease without the board’s consent.
Sep 25th, 2015 by Jeramey Jannene
A People on the Move spotlight
Kristi Luzar has been named executive director of the Urban Economic Development Association of Wisconsin Inc., Milwaukee. Previously Luzar had served as a longtime UEDA deputy director of programs. She answered a few questions for the Milwaukee Business Journal. New position: Executive director, Urban Economic Development Association of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Hometown: Wauwatosa Education: Master of science degree in urban studies and nonprofit management from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; bachelor of arts degree in English and political science from UW-Madison What attracted you to this new opportunity:“UEDA’s collaborative approach — I get to partner with some amazing people and organizations that work very hard to strengthen neighborhoods, families and businesses. Although the issues we work on are challenging, it is extremely rewarding to see the results of our shared commitments to bettering the community.” Thoughts on your position:“I’m looking forward to building on the past success of UEDA’s role as an intermediary and finding new ways to support our members and partners across sectors. I believe we can be a real bridge-builder when it comes to addressing the challenges in our community.” First job:“Newspaper carrier for the Milwaukee Journal” Career advice:“Share what you’re doing, regardless of whether it’s a success or a failure; you never know who will be there to help you succeed, share best practices or learn from the challenges you faced.” Personal hero:“My parents — they set an example of hard work and commitment to family that has truly shaped who I am today.” Last book read:“Night Film” by Marisha Pessl Person you would most like to meet: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Family: Husband, Jonathan, and two furry companions, Rosalita and Louise Favorite vacation spot:“Any warm, sandy beach with book in hand” Most meaningful accomplishment:“Carrying on the Slovenian tradition of making Potica bread in my family. It had been a lost tradition. No one in my family had done it for two generations, but family and tradition are important to me so I learned and now set aside a weekend every Christmas to make it from scratch for family and friends.” Favorite film:“Moonstruck” Favorite Milwaukee restaurant: Cafe Corazon Likes about Milwaukee:“Its diverse neighborhoods and the beautiful public access to Lake Michigan” What you most like doing in your free time:“Reading, tennis, cooking and baking, traveling, dining and getting out for all the interesting and diverse cultural experiences Milwaukee has to offer”
Sep 25th, 2015 by Jeramey Jannene
