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  1. I have been an advocate of this kind of idea for Milwaukee for years.

    All of that lakefront property, as well as the inlet that is the Milwaukee River, and runs up the Menominee River Parkway.... are all "jewels" that have been abused and allowed to be eyesores and polluted.

    With progressive thinking and clever development they could be HUGE assets, that could generate money and business for Milwaukee, as well as add to the aesthetics of the city.

    DEVELOP THE LAKEFRONT AND MENOMINEE RIVER PARKWAY with parks, hotels, quaint clubs and bistros, walking paths, docks, bridges, cross-country ski paths, ice skating rinks, athletic fields, restaurants ... from the Lakefront through the Third Ward, and all the way up to Miller Park!!!
    Invite Private business and Investors.
  2. Unfortunately Milwaukee's lakefront has been "look but don't touch" since before I moved down there to go to school at SARUP. It would be nice if businesses would leave the land they use to generate all their profits in good condition so someone else doesn't have to come in and clean up their mess. If anything, the students certainly got to see firsthand how poor planning, lazy environmental standards and greed can effect a community.
  3. The article mentions the state DNR, that makes me concerned as this state administration which kills anything that's clean and/or green. Let's hope this doesn't become a frustrated, time delayed project.
  4. Excellent blog and insiteful, on point comments. Go MKE!
  5. I am all for this. Just remember one thing...the ports are an integral part of our state's economy and the port of Milwaukee has continued to increase tonnage the last several years. This project will only be successful if we do not limit the usage of the waterways. This project needs to be more than just window dressing for our city.
  6. What a breath of fresh air. This is the kind of big picture thinking that
    Milwaukee needs to do, on many levels.

    The City and region must rally around this effort.
  7. How about doing something on the Park East freeway land first?

    Finish one project first.

    Then look to screw up the local economy by turning the port into a "green space."
  8. Cool idea. Spent alot of years watching the lake from the office window. How water flows can teach alot to business to use the environment rather exploit it. If the river just has to flood than it wiser to build away from the risk saving on losses. Watching situation of a street water intake for runoff that consistently heaving up and down, caused cement cracks. There was just something odd about that. Not Milwaukee but another city finally took a deeper look at the situation. Undergound there were changes from a natural spring. City used natural underground waterflow of a natural aquaduct that discharged into a natural wetland filter to better discharge street runoff resolving street flooding. City used nature rather than exploit and try to change it. Street runoff is naturally filtered into streams where water purity is actually better than city tap water.
  9. Thecriv, I really like your post. I agree, let's go big and build something in our town that makes visitors go "wow, who knew Milwaukee was so nice!"

    So much potential in our town.
  10. Excellent post. If we remove the Hoan and put a ground-level road, this area
    can be made to shine.

    Perhaps we can even find a better place for the storage tanks and salt piles.


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