City looking for public input on future of Downtown Milwaukee

MILWAUKEE — Metropolis of Milwaukee leaders need your enter on plans for the subsequent 2 many years of the town’s downtown. They are going to be internet hosting a sequence of in particular person and digital conferences, asking the general public to participate in “Connecting MKE – Downtown Plan 2040.”

The plan follows up on an identical one from 2010 referred to as “Constructing on Momentum.” That plan centered across the West Wisconsin Avenue space which has included tasks just like the third Avenue Market Corridor, The Milwaukee Symphony, and even seemed ahead to tasks just like the Milwaukee Streetcar and Deer District.

Developer of third Avenue Market Corridor, Omar Shaikh says profitable tasks in Downtown are necessary for a vibrant metropolis together with the previous Grand Avenue Mall. “It’s thrilling to see part of the town that was, I might say, stagnant for about 20 years to come back again to life” says Shaikh.

Connecting MKE- Downtown Plan 2040 is a collaboration between Milwaukee’s Division of Metropolis Growth and Milwaukee Downtown Enterprise District #21. It consists of a neighborhood council made up of residents and downtown employees.

Council Member Emerald Mills says minorities are sometimes underrepresented, and having her voice on the desk is necessary.

“I believe it’s so necessary to be part of the place you reside, the place you’re employed, the place you play, to have your voice heard to have your concepts heard,” Mills says.

Connecting MKE will maintain a neighborhood open home assembly Wednesday, Might twenty fifth from 3-7 p.m. on the third Avenue Market Corridor.

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