Although Mitchell Park’s redesign is still in the early planning stages, renderings reveal what the park might look like in the future. The renderings, created by Eppstein Uhen Architects of Milwaukee, show two possible locations for the football field donated by the Green Bay Packers to Journey House in 2009. The field would be flanked by bleachers and feature stadium lights.

Plans have not finalized and there are other options, according to Manni Marquez, director of the Clarke Square Zilber Neighborhood Initiative, but two possibilities include installing the field on top of what were once the sunken gardens or where the soccer fields are currently located.

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Sunken gardens location – view from W. Pierce St.
Aerial view of sunken gardens location
Soccer field location for Packers field
Ground view of soccer field location for Packers field

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Raised in a South Side neighborhood where he still lives, Edgar Mendez is the managing editor of the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service. Mendez is a proud graduate of UW-Milwaukee, where he double majored in journalism and sociology, and of Marquette University, where he earned a master’s degree in communication. He won a 2018 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award and 2014, 2017, and 2018 Milwaukee Press Club Awards for his reporting on taverns, marijuana law enforcement, and lead in water service lines. In 2008, he won a Society of Professional Journalists’ regional award for columns dealing with issues such as poverty, homelessness and racism. His writing has been published by the Associated Press, Reuters, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and other media. He has also co-authored three articles published in scholarly journals.