Bob Lemke, a retired MSOE architecture professor, hopes to protect the existing Civic Center, which has been targeted by the Common Council for redevelopment under a plan estimated to cost about $107 million.
The city's initial revised 2026-27 guard assignments had left Underwood Elementary School with no guard, either on the school property or in its neighborhood — the only city school without coverage.
The Renaissance was a dramatic redevelopment project when it opened in 2020, a conversion from a former office building into a high-end hotel, which also includes the Eldr+Rime restaurant.
Now at 10201 W. Innovation Drive, WSTEM is no longer just an elementary school. It expanded enrollment this year to span 4-year-old kindergarten through seventh grade, and next year, it expects to add eighth graders too.
As surely all parents in Wauwatosa know, Tuesday is the start of school. Whether you are breathing a sigh of relief after a long summer or shedding tears of loss
This is Blue Door Academy's first year providing before- and after-school care to Tosa elementary school students, but if a site falls short of enrollment minimums by Oct. 1, its students could be moved to consolidated sites at different schools.
The changes mean Washington Elementary's closest guard will be a block away from the school, and Underwood Elementary will have no crossing guard in its neighborhood. Instead, the city will double up at two busy Wauwatosa Avenue intersections.
During a police interview after his arrest, Ryan Ashford said “he was tired of not making enough money and that no one was supposed to get hurt,” according to the complaint.
The new sculpture collection, on the south side of the park, joins Mama Rosa and several other pieces of public at the popular recreation destination on Tosa's west side.
