Milwaukee’s Kiva micro-loan program is celebrating an important milestone: its 100th loan to an entrepreneur. The 100th loan was made to Akilah Young, who owns Canfield Cleaning Services. She applied for a $2,000 loan, which was crowd-funded by lenders throughout the world within 48 hours. Ms. Young will use the loan to secure better marketing materials, buy equipment, and hire additional employees.
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The Greater Milwaukee Committee in partnership with the City of Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Urban League and the Greater Milwaukee Foundation recently announced the MKE United Greater Downtown Action Agenda (MKE United), an effort to create a shared, inclusive vision for Greater Downtown Milwaukee, supported by a strategic Action Agenda that will make that vision a reality.
“Milwaukee is experiencing unprecedented downtown development,” said Milwaukee Mayor, Tom Barrett. “Working together, we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to leverage those developments to create more equitable benefit for all Milwaukeeans and the neighborhoods adjacent to downtown.”
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The Federal Transit Administration announced in October that the City of Milwaukee was one of sixteen recipients nationwide selected to receive a competitive planning grant through the FTA’s Pilot Program for Transit Oriented Development Planning Grant Program. This grant will allow the City to develop strategies to foster Transit Oriented Development (TOD) along the proposed future King Drive/Bronzeville and Walker’s Point Streetcar extensions. TOD generally seeks to include a mixture of housing, office, retail and other amenities integrated into a walkable neighborhood located within one half mile of quality public transportation.
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The Redevelopment Authority of the City of Milwaukee is excited to present this RFP for an unprecedented transit-oriented development opportunity in the City of Milwaukee and one of the most unique transit-oriented development opportunities in the Midwest.
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Milwaukee was highlighted in the April 2016 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine, featuring the careful balance between brownfield remediation and industrial development in the Menomonee Valley. The City has created incremental plans that have come to life mitigating the harder aspects of a longtime manufacturing zone yet kept it as a hub for jobs.
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Northwestern Mutual’s new downtown tower is reshaping Milwaukee’s skyline, and, at the same time, the project is connecting hundreds of Milwaukee workers with career opportunities in the building trades. Mayor Tom Barrett recently discussed the progress of the project’s Workforce Development Program, which is providing construction jobs and training opportunities for Milwaukee residents.
A newly released report shows that Northwestern Mutual and Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership (WRTP)/BIG STEP are on target and/or ahead of schedule in meeting all contract requirements and goals to ensure access
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