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Article: Change surrounds 27th St. hotel Ex-mansion offers low-cost housing in area set for upgrade
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- October 11, 2009
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By TOM TOLAN
Milwaukee and Greenfield are working on plans to drag a long-
neglected stretch of S. 27th St. into the 21st century.
The question: What do you do with the old hotel, a building with
its roots in the 19th, that's in the middle of that stretch?
Wildenberg's Evergreen Hotel, Bar and Mobile Home Park, at 3774
S. 27th St. sits between two proposed developments in a city tax
district created to encourage the upgrading of the area. And the
hotel's owners are feeling a little squeezed these days.
Diane Klug, who manages the property for her mother, Eleonore
Wildenberg-Klug, says she recently was asked by Ald. Terry
Witkowski, who represents her south side district, whether the
family ...