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Article: Valley goes on display, too; Harley museum is expected to attract businesses, attention to area
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- July 10, 2008
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Consider it a $75 million billboard for development opportunities
in Milwaukee's Menomonee Valley. That's one of the less obvious
roles that Harley-Davidson Inc.'s new museum will play as it opens
Saturday.
Harley expects the 130,000-square-foot museum to draw 350,000
visitors a year -- and a huge amount of media attention -- to its
location at W. Canal and S. 6th streets. And that has already helped
showcase other valley development sites, said Laura Bray, executive
director of Menomonee Valley Partners Inc.
"Just the exposure for the valley, and for Milwaukee, has just
been huge," said Bray, whose nonprofit group promotes the valley,
which runs from east of Miller Park to the confluence of ...