Tuesday, January 8, 2013
During a year when politics often took our attention away from the business going on right around us, retail development in Wauwatosa went from next-to-nowhere to no-end-in-sight growth.
2012 may be remembered as the year retail business development in Wauwatosa started out in the doghouse and came out king of the hill. One year ago, the economic development gurus of Tosa were dismayed with the scope, the type and the timetables of new and proposed retail projects on the table and on the horizon. There were much higher hopes for bigger and bolder visions, such as UWM's Innovation Park technology research and development center – which just bore its first fruit Tuesday night. But now, the retail joy is overflowing, it is our city's shining beacon again, and that is thanks mostly to one magic name: Nordstrom. A year ago, a mere Nordstrom Rack clearance store was a bauble that had been dangled in front of Wauwatosa shoppers …
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Advocate for preservation urges city not to give in easily to suggestion that some of the historic buildings could be demolished.
The group that launched a successful grassroots campaign nearly 15 years ago to "Save the County Grounds" has now delivered a preemptive challenge to Wauwatosa to save the historic Eschweiler Buildings. Cheryl Nenn of Milwaukee Riverkeeper wrote to the Wauwatosa Historic Preservation Commission before a meeting scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday that it needs to stick to the city's long-term commitment to preserving the buildings. The commission's agenda says only this: "Eschweiler Buildings Redevelopment Update – Initial discussion of proposed plans." But it is presumed that representatives of Mandel Group, the developer that won the request for proposals for the Eschweiler Campus, will be present, as may those of the UWM Real Estate …
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
With much to agree on, candidates find a few areas to separate themselves before next Tuesday's primary.
- ELECTIONS
- Jim Price
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
With the primary election just a week away, voters will want to focus on the differences between three candidates for mayor in choosing which two will advance to the final round on April 3. But Monday night's candidates' forum demonstrated that in at least two key areas, Peter Donegan, Kathy Ehley and John Pokrandt are all fairly well-informed choices and largely in agreement. All three identified: as the two greatest concerns for Wauwatosa government. In general, all three also agreed that a balanced, responsible approach to furthering economic development to increase the city's tax base was the only answer to the revenue problem. And all three admitted that they had no easy answer or magic bullet to solve the sewer problem. This article …
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Perceptions of big road, big wall and high traffic make for less-than-enthusiastic reception for long-awaited project.
- GOVERNMENT
- Jim Price
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Thursday, February 9, 2012
After years of mostly enthusiastic discussion of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Innovation Park on the County Grounds, and after creating a tax financing district to pay for its public infrastructure more than a year ago, the Wauwatosa Common Council got a close look Tuesday at just the first two elements of the project. The reaction was, at best, tepid. There certainly was no applause from the council as the UWM Real Estate Foundation, its project designers and top city staff put on presentation on the roadway that will run through the development and on the first of many buildings that will be erected. There were no hearty congratulations on the long-awaited beginning of a project that has been called the biggest and most …
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Nick Schweitzer
10:26 am on Thursday, February 16, 2012
ExRepublican and LindaZN... none of that is a reason for Wauwatosa to have an paramilitary SWAT team. Those are reasons to have standard patrol officers. Also, Wauwatosa should not be maintaining a SWAT team purely for the Sherrif's office to call on. First, the Sherrif's office already has it's own Paramilitary unit. If they need more officers on that team, then they should build it into the … more ›