NNS Video: A taste of Cesar E. Chavez Drive (and it’s not anything related to food) | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Alex Perry
September 18, 2019
Cesar E. Chavez Drive is so much more than restaurants these days.
It’s also about business.
Since 2016, the city hasinvested almost $83,000 in storefront improvements and public art on the CesarE. Chavez commercial corridor. An additional $410,000 in private investmentsbrings the total to almost $500,000, according to Natanael Martinez, commercialcorridor manager at the City of Milwaukee Department of City Development. Heanticipates that an additional $28,000 will be invested in storefronts by theend of the year.
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The Cesar Chavez Business Improvement District and the Clarke Square Neighborhood Initiative have partnered to prioritize economic development along ChavezDrive, said Ian Bautista, the initiative’s director.
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