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  1. Amazing! During his entire tenure as Mayor, John Norquist completely ignored the Northridge area. During his entire tenure as Mayor, Tom Barrett has totally ignored the Northridge area. Honestly, do either one of them realize that the City if Milwaukee actually extends west of 35th Street? Now the city wants to impose a NEW TAX on businesses in the area that are clinging to life? Just think what the $100 MILLION that Tom is spending on his trolley could do for this part if the city.
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  2. The only way to "improve" that district would be to blow it up
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  3. The problem with Northridge is the people who live around it. Demographic shift brought on by widespread conversion of apartments to low income housing brought on the demise of the area - a lesson to other communities chasing development dollars in the form of government grants for low income and "working" housing.
  4. For once, I have to agree with alll the previous posts.
  5. So of the $345,000 raised, only $60,000 would actually go towards improving the area with cleanups, signage and new plants? The other $285,000 would go to administrative expenses, marketing, community outreach initiatives (code words for slush fund to throw money at political supporters), and a reserve fund. This is exactly why government needs to be restrained and the private sector is much more efficient. They are raising taxes and only 17% of the taxes raised actually go towards the purpose they were intended for. The rest gets wasted. If I were a business owner in that area, why would I want to stay? My taxes are raised as the area turns into a 3rd world hellhole.
  6. That area has been blighted for the past 15 years. No matter how much money is blown on it, it will not help. This is including the tacky little stripmalls on the southside of Brown Deer Rd. How about returning the area back to what it was before Northridge and the subsidized apts. were built: a farmer's field and woods.
  7. The nerve of these people. They ACTUALLY expect that their property taxes should go towards things such as keeping the area clean and up to date instead of being p*ssed away.

    Only a government mentality would think that imposing an additional fee on business in exchange for government DOING IT'S JOB is "fair"......
  8. My guess is that the owners of the former Northridge Mall want the neighbors to pay for "pretty" improvements and promotion of the area so they can unload their white elephant. For years they did nothing other than "sit on it" and on goes the story of a few affluent people with politicians in their pocket to do their bidding...........
  9. More 'Lipstick on a Pig'. Is the only thing government thinks about is more Taxes? Just how many people does this community have sitting around thinking of ways to increase revenue? Who ever dreamed up the idea that government making things pretty would encourage better behavior in neighborhoods? The pride in neighborhood comes from the neighbors making their environment better!


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