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.
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.
Because work had not yet begun on the memorial, no materials were lost, but when the floodwater subsided, the memorial committee conferred with city officials and decided Hart Park would no longer be a suitable location.
