Tax increment financing, or TIF, is a tool municipalities can use to help spur new developments within the TIF district. The latest proposal would provide $880,000 to a developer interested in building 14 housing units on a small parcel just north of the Harmonee Avenue bridge.
Hammond's exit puts the city back in recruitment mode less than two years after filling the development director role previously held for 12 years by Paulette Enders, until her retirement in 2024.
Melissa Dolan had received scrutiny before the election for missing a March 30 filing deadline. City records showed she submitted her campaign finance disclosure eight days late, on Election Day.
Flooding thwarted plans to install the Veterans Memorial at Hart Park. Instead, planners now are hoping to begin construction soon on the grassy triangle at Milwaukee and Harwood avenues.
Sean Lowe, in his April 10 announcement, acknowledged for the first time that he and his wife had recently purchased a house outside of his district, as Tosa Forward News had first reported on April 8.
Public records indicate Sean Lowe and his wife finalized a mortgage on a home in District 12. He says in intends to serve out his new term in District 6 on the council.
All 12 seats on the council were up for election under a new structure that is reducing the council's size, but only three of the 12 elections were contested.
State + Local Election Alliance's spending in District 11 is more than triple what any individual candidate has reported spending in the elections for the Wauwatosa Common Council's 12 nonpartisan seats.
The Wauwatosa Civic Celebration Commission voted March 26 to pursue a partnership with Wisconsin Lutheran College to host the Independence Day celebration at the college's sports complex atop a hill just off Swan Boulevard.
Residents who still have leaves left from last year should make sure they are to the curb by April 12. "Soft plant material" is also accepted, but branches and other "woody yard material" are not.
Cardinal Capital Management has spent years working to bring a housing project for residents 55 and older to the corner of 74th and Wright streets. It now says it is ready to move forward.
