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Article: TOWER AUTOMOTIVE SITE Reclaiming a corridor The city's plans to buy 84 acres of vacant industrial land and redevelop it as a business park could provide an anchor for a struggling neighborhood.
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- July 10, 2009
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The City of Milwaukee's plans to buy 84 acres of the former Tower
Automotive site on the north side will help anchor an impoverished
neighborhood by wiping away blight and eventually providing jobs at
a new business park.
But we have no illusions about the difficult task at hand.
Reclaiming this old industrial corridor will be a lengthy process.
It will be years before jobs return to the big triangular patch of
ground near W. Capitol Drive and N. 35th St. Just cleaning up the
site will take two years at a minimum -- and with the economy a
basket case, it might take much longer to attract businesses.
Still, the city can draw on the experience of the successful
reclamation of the Menomonee ...