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Article: City officials drop plans for Zablocki VA center; Veterans groups opposed proposals
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- February 28, 2007
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Mayor Tom Barrett's administration is dropping plans to create a
high-tech business park and veterans housing at Zablocki Veterans
Affairs Medical Center, with city officials saying Tuesday that
opposition from veterans groups killed the proposal.
Barrett's proposal called for preservation of five historic
buildings on the VA grounds that are either vacant or largely
unused. The restored buildings would include Old Main, the original
Soldiers Home that opened in 1869 atop a hill that now overlooks
Miller Park. The Soldiers Home grounds, which include several 19th-
century buildings, are adjacent to the modern medical center
complex.
Under the city's plan, Old Main would be converted into ...