Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Final debate on the matter includes one of the better spoken arguments against it so far, but passage was inevitable with no legal grounds for the city to delay property owner's right to lease his space.
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- Jim Price
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
O'Reilly Auto Parts is on North Avenue to stay – for perhaps 15 years, anyway – as the Wauwatosa Common Council approved a conditional use permit Tuesday night for the national chain store. The issue has been a contentious one, with lengthy official debates and volleys of e-mails and petitions from area residents, many of whom did not think an auto parts store in the former Blockbuster building was a good fit for the neighborhood. At the heart of the disagreement was the North Avenue Plan, which is supposed to be a roadmap for revitalization of the district and was adopted last year into the city's master plan. The North Avenue Plan was created using a $40,000 Community Development Block Grant and calls for further city spending over the …
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Former Blockbuster store will become O'Reilly Auto Parts
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Plan for auto parts store in former Blockbuster building advances strongly on two key votes and is virtually certain to pass the full Common Council next week, as citizens, city can find no basis for denying or delaying it.
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- Jim Price
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
"Sausage-making at it's finest." So said Ald. Craig Wilson shortly after midnight Wednesday, when a meeting that started at 8 p.m. Tuesday finally adjourned. The process was more akin to the emulsification of an issue – although the end product still strongly resembled its beginnings. After marathon hearings on consecutive nights, a conditional use permit for an O'Reilly Auto Parts store at 6102 W. North Ave. marched forward toward final approval next week before the Common Council. On Monday, the request received a unanimous thumbs-up from the Wauwatosa Plan Commission. Tuesday night, it earned a second strong recommendation from the Community Development Committee, polling 4-2 for approval. But those solid votes in favor came only after …
Sunday, February 5, 2012
This was never in the vision for North Avenue, not by a long shot.
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Sunday, February 5, 2012
By Bobby Pantuso, alderman Recently, you may have noticed that the Blockbuster building on 61st Street and North Avenue became vacant. Many people wondered what might be coming next. As it turns out, it is an auto parts store. Everyone living in East Tosa has their own vision of what they would like North Avenue to look like, to be like, to feel like. My own vision for North Avenue starts with… well, North Avenue. Not the one of today but the one from 30 years ago, when I was a kid growing up in East Tosa and hanging out on and frequenting the shops on North Avenue. The second infusion to my vision of North Avenue is Brady Street on the East Side of Milwaukee; a walkable stretch of urban street filled with eclectic shops. Merge those …
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Blockbuster Video
6102 W North Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Future home of O'Reilly's Auto Parts
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Saturday, February 4, 2012
Property owner told city officials he was unaware of any part for the location in the city's comprehensive plan.
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- Jim Price
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Saturday, February 4, 2012
O'Reilly Auto Parts has signed a 15-year lease for the former Blockbuster building at 6102 W. North Ave., city officials and neighborhood representatives learned Friday. A group including several Common Council members, the city administrator, the economic development director and members of the East Tosa Alliance met with the property's owner and representatives Friday morning to discuss the future of the site, according to two aldermen who were present. But after a conversation about fitting any potential use into the city's comprehensive plan, they said, owner Dan Cohen of Mid-America Real Estate announced that the lease with O'Reilly had already been signed. Ald. Linda Nikcevich said in an e-mail that Cohen told the group he had been …
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Blockbuster Video
6102 W North Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Vacated the premises without notice in December
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Random Blog Commenter
3:14 pm on Monday, March 26, 2012
I welcome this well-run business to Wauwatosa that will occupy a vacant building, provide $$$ to the owner so he can pay property taxes and employ people -- all without a taxpayer subsidy. Such a business is my vision of Wauwatosa and should be the "vision" of anyone elected to represent the city. more ›