The building dates to 1958, when it was originally built to house the West Suburban YMCA. Unity Church, which bought it in 1973, had been struggling under the financial burden of maintaining its aging facility.
The grants are not restricted to supporting fire and EMS services, meaning the two cities can use the money for unrelated municipal expenses, in addition to helping to set up the new joint fire department.
The Lineage property is valued on city assessment rolls at $14.5 million and is located within a TIF district, which means new tax revenue generated by redevelopment can offset the cost of district improvements, including building purchase and demolition.
The district, which includes most of the Pasadena neighborhood and part of the Tosa East Towne neighborhood, thought it was electing its alderperson to a new four-year term, but after the April election, Sean Lowe resigned and moved to a different district.
The parking options include the college's lot next to the football stadium, at 1401 Swan Blvd. The stadium's bleachers will open as a viewing area starting at 7 p.m. for the fireworks show, scheduled to start at 9:15.
The city anticipates a portion of the cost will be offset by grants and private fundraising. It would not require a voter referendum to move forward, because of how the debt would be financed over 20 years.
The Wauwatosa Veterans Memorial was approved for construction on a city-owned triangle of vacant land on the southwest corner of Milwaukee and Harwood avenues, once home to the city's first public library.
Bublr has 22 stations for its bike-share program in Wauwatosa, and it is studying ridership trends for ways of improving the service's usefulness for Tosa residents, Executive Director Ted Chisholm said this week.
The more than 100 city leaders, elected officials, civic volunteers, business owners and engaged citizens who turned out May 14 to celebrate the city got a sneak peek at the new digital-friendly "design element" that the city is about to roll out to the public.
Four options for upgrading the City Hall and Wauwatosa Public Library complex were unveiled before the Common Council on May 12, and the council is considering a vote on one of the options by the end of July.
In recent years, the Parks & Forestry Division "has created a stronger leadership team with significantly more trained and experienced staff dedicated to the planning, management and implementation of park and urban forestry initiatives and design," according to a memo from two council members.
This push for Amtrak service in Tosa comes as the passenger rail already is considering whether to add stops in Wisconsin along the rail corridor that runs through the city.
