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SOHI District Update - Car Crashes, Clean-ups & Conferences! June 2009
License HearingThe SOHI District is hard at work making change where possible. This year so far the district assisted Alderman Robert Bauman with decreasing the number of liquor and 24 hour licenses in the area.  The partnership between the Milwaukee Police Department and the district has been invaluable including the use of surveillance and reporting problem properties to DNS.   Make sure to check out the videos and photos below!
 

 
Cleaning up the SOHI District

WISN and MPDOn the left, Police Officer Ryan McNichol and the Community Prosecution Team are interviewed by WISN regarding the neighborhood clean-up.  This clean-up comes after a conference attended by McNichol and me that addressed vacant properties, one of the targets for this clean-up.

The community clean-up involved over 12 partners including Artists and Display, Safe & Sound, Neighborhood House and St. Paul's Lutheran Church.  Monthly clean-ups are planned for the next three months.
Development Opportunity (820 N. 27th Street) 
820 N. 27th Street This mixed-use, 8-unit building could be making you money! With grants from the City of Milwaukee and support from the SOHI District this is a gold mine for a quality landlord.
 
 
 Features:
  • 8 large apartments
  • 3 commercial spaces
  • Parking
  • Possibility of over $155,000 in city grants
  • SOHI District Grants

Find out about the $17,500 per unit grant from Neighborhood Improvement Development Corporation by calling Greg Johnson at (414) 286-5608 or Gregory.Johnson@milwaukee.gov .

For additional information on the property contact Mark Kivley at (414) 967-0506 or rmanhoff@lakesiderealtors.com .

St. Paul's Lutheran Church Making Waves!
St. Paul Lutheran Church's CongregationSt. Paul Lutheran Church, one of the many supporters of the SOHI District, has a mixed congregation that is representative of the neighborhood.  Such diversity does not stop with their Sunday fellowship. 
 
The church offers Vacation Bible School, a clothing program and Lao eductional programming.
 
For more information contact Pastor Donna Brown at 414-933-7825 or email her at stpaulsmilwaukee@sbcglobal.net . She would love to hear from you!
Literacy Services, A Great SOHI Partner (Video)!
Nick Lyons
Main Street Manager interviews Nick Lyons of Literacy Services located on 28th and Wells in the SOHI District. 
 
For more information contact Nick at (414) 344-5878
or email him at nick@literacyservices.org .
Nolan Gray, Marquette Upward Bound InternIn our last e-newsletter 32% of the recipients opened the email and 34% clicked on a link for further information.  To learn how to track your data contact Kevin Woodcock at Constant Contact at kwoodcock@constantcontact.com . 

Pictured above is Nolan Gray, the latest SOHI District Intern from Marquette University's Upward Bound Program. Nolan is shown at this year's Menomonee Valley's Real Estate Open House.
 
Sincerely,
 

Keith Stanley
SOHI District Manager
In This Issue
Cleaning Up SOHI!
Development Corner
St. Paul's
Great Partners
Coming Soon!
Vacant Properties
Street Reconstruction
Coming Soon!
Izzy's 
The SOHI District is preparing for a new restaurant, Izzy's!  After several years without the former Southeast Asia restaurant at 2613 W. State the space was rehabbed with the assistance of the City of Milwaukee, the SOHI District and Avenues West BID #10.  The Grand Opening will be announced soon.
Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference
John, Keith and McNichol 
Landbanking, Creative Deployment of Public Sector Financing and Brownfield Redevelopment were a few of the topics covered at this year's conference in Louisville, KY.  Sponsored by Local Initiatives Support Corporation, Ryan McNichol, John Connelly and Renee Booker joined Julia Ryan and Mona Mangat of LISC - Community Safety Initiative to talk about our collaboration in fighting crime on our main streets.  
 
Thank you to Julia and Mona for supporting the SOHI District!

Economic Stimulus in SOHI!
State StreetThe Public Works Committee of the Common Council voted on a resolution authorizing the city to use federal economic stimulus funding to do substantial work on West State Street from North 17th to 27th Streets. The work will include pavement reconstruction, curb and gutter replacement, replacement of sidewalks and driveway approaches, and sodding and grading. The total cost is estimated to be $2,063,709 and the work will take place in the 2009-10 construction season.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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