Obsolete power plants continue to cost ratepayers. Now, the push to generate unprecedented amounts of electricity for data centers risks creating another $1 billion in “stranded assets.”
Economic Development
Economic Development
Posted inCommunity, Economic Development
Latina entrepreneurs create a one-stop shop for self-expression
Best friends Sheyla Rabelo and Sona Khamneh build a space where both artists and clients can feel comfortable being who they are.
Posted inbasic needs, Community, Economic Development, Health and Wellness
‘The only grocery store in the neighborhood’: Community weighs in on Pick ‘n Save closing
Some residents are learning in real time that their neighborhood grocery store will close Friday.
Posted inCommunity, Economic Development, Health & Welfare, Metcalfe Park
‘Deepening the crisis’: Pick ‘n Save’s closing creates community uproar
The plan to close the Pick ‘n Save’s North Side location in the Metcalfe Park neighborhood has raised a number of concerns for residents.
Posted inCommunity, Economic Development, NNS Spotlight
More than a cafe: How Kinship Café is changing lives
The Kinship Café is serving the community as well as its staff through its healing-based workforce development program.
Posted inCommunity, Economic Development
Here’s what you need to know about participatory budgeting in Milwaukee
The African American Roundtable has been advocating for participatory budgeting for more than five years.
Posted inEconomic Development, Neighborhoods
Silver City businesses update storefronts ahead of National Avenue construction
VIA Community Development Corp. is incentivizing business owners along National Avenue in Silver City to give their storefronts a face-lift ahead of next year’s road reconstruction.
Posted inCommunity, Economic Development
NNS Spotlight: Ray Hill promotes King Drive’s pride and promise
Ray Hill is dedicated to working with local businesses and property owners to improve four and half miles of commercial corridor along Milwaukee’s King Drive.
Posted inCommunity, Economic Development
Charrette spurs design ideas for 35th Street on Near West Side
After holding a design charrette for 27th Street in 2016, Near West Side Partners brought back the collaborative design event to gather community ideas on developing sites along 35th Street.
Posted inCommunity, Economic Development, North
How ThriveOn King in Bronzeville is connecting the community with workforce training
ThriveOn King partners are working together to make the space a center for workforce development, with job training programs active at Versiti on King, JobsWork MKE, Kinship Café and Malaika Early Learning Center.