Michela Miller and Madison Sveum were seventh-graders working on their Girl Scouts Silver Awards in December 2015 when they led efforts to bring a Holiday Train stop to Wauwatosa.
It will start at 11 a.m. near the Harwood Avenue intersection, with a reviewing booth set up in front of Leff's Lucky Town. It is expected to last about 45 minutes, with about 35 different groups marching and a vintage plane flyover.
The Mandel Group, which is planning to build 157 market-rate apartments on the site of the city's Blanchard Street parking lots, will close those lots soon in preparation for construction to begin.
The property at 7746 Menomonee River Parkway, just north of the Harmonee Avenue bridge, has been vacant since the city purchased it in 2020, tore down an old office building there and began seeking proposals.
Numerous businesses and organizations, both along the Menomonee River and in higher-ground neighborhoods, have temporarily closed for cleanup, repairs and renovations.
