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Revitalizing Milwaukee’s 30th Street Industrial Corridor
One of the first areas selected for the Reinvestment Initiative is Milwaukee’s 30th Street Industrial Corridor. The 30th Street Industrial Corridor faces the intertwined difficulties of a large concentration of underused and contaminated sites, high poverty, and high childhood lead poisoning. Restoring and revitalizing this area, where 97% of the residents are people of color, is a major environmental justice priority.
Involving residents in this process is a key to successful redevelopment. Midwest Environmental Advocates is working with Good Jobs, Livable Neighborhoods to ensure that residents are shaping the revitalization of their neighborhoods. |
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Resident Participation Key to Revitalization of 30th Street Corridor Reviving Milwaukee's Next Great Corridor |
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Good Jobs, Livable Neighborhoods is a non-profit organization with a community organizer dedicated to engaging residents of the 30 th Street Industrial Corridor to more fully participate in its redevelopment, with a special focus on the former AO Smith / Tower Automotive site. City of Milwaukee, Department of City Development, has a team working to redevelop the 30th Street Industrial Corridor. Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has a team working to restore contaminated sites in the 30th Street Industrial Corridor. Urban revitalization efforts are much further along in Milwaukee’s Menomonee Valley, where a broad group of partners is working to restore the neglected river valley. |
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In 2005, Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle announced an Urban Reinvestment Initiative as part of his Conserve Wisconsin Plan. The Urban Reinvestment Initiative makes it a state priority to cleanup contaminated sites in urban neighborhoods that are economically and environmentally distressed.
