Milwaukee's South Side

 

Bay View

 

Clarke Square

Holler Park

 

Jackson Park

 

Jones Island

 

Layton Park

 

Lincoln Village

 

 

Mitchell Street

 

Tippecanoe

 

Town of Lake

Town of Lake, is an area located near the Billy Mitchell Field Airport, being a neighborhood based on its namesake township. Established by the Territorial Legislature in 1838 and covered an abundance of what is now the south side of Milwaukee, as well as city of Cudahy. As time has passed, the township was parceled among different area cities. The original boundaries for the Town of Lake were Greenfield Ave to the north, Lake Michigan to the east, with College Ave (called Town Line Rd originally) to the south, and 27th Street to the west. In 1951, St. Francis incorporated so that to prevent annexation by Milwaukee, in effect it was "seceding" from the Town of Lake.

Before the annexation, the township's boundary to the norht was Howard Ave, with exception for a strip of land to the west of 20th Street going farther north to Morgan Ave. The old town hall on 6th and Howard is still to this day, referred to as the "Town of Lake Water Tower". Now officially called the Robert A. Anderson Municipal Building by the City of Milwaukee, it currently serves as office space and also includes a water treatment facility. The Town of Lake was then officially annexed in 1954. The township's residents had then voted not to incorporate as the "City of Lake" in 1928; incidentally, had they chosen to incorporate, the remaining area of the Town of Lake would probably have never been annexed by Milwaukee, and Milwaukee would have likely expanded further west and north instead. A noteworthy addition, it is also likely that the Milwaukee suburb of St. Francis would not have felt pressure to incorporate.

Walker's Point

Walker's Point neighborhood lies south of the Third Ward and the eastern part of Menomonee River Valley. Its founder, George H. Walker happened in 1835 as it had been a fur trading post. The area is now noted for being mostly an industrial neighborhood, with housing limited and scattered in pockets in the area, particularly on the eastern end of Walker's Point location.

The city's gay and lesbian community actively use these nightclubs and bars in the neighborhood. Recently, this area has seen some revitalization in office, condo,  and retail development as a spill over to the Milwaukee River neighborhood.  There has been attempt to revamp the area even more so. The L. Teweles Seed Company warehouse,^[35] Fifth Ward Lofts, and the Milwaukee Water Council have been renovated.^[36]

Rockwell Automation company has built their headquarters in this neighborhood. The Allen-Bradley Clock Tower, part of the Rockwell complex, is an iconic representation of the neighborhood and is the world's largest four-faced clock, as it is  listed in Guinness World Records. Esperanza Unida, a community-based nonprofit organization, is located on the western edge and end of Walker's Point. Data security software provider and ZIP file creators PKWARE have relocated their headquarters to the neighborhood in 2014.^[37] Local architecture firm Plunkett Raysich Architects, LLP did also relocate from its long-time location on the northwest side in May 2015.^[38]

Lower East Side

Lower East Side is a neighborhood which is located North of Downtown and East of Riverwest. It is bounded by the Milwaukee River on the west, Lake Michigan located on the east, North Avenue on the north and the location of State Street on the south.^[41] Brady Street itself runs west from Prospect Avenue (which overlooks the Lake) to Water Street.

In the years of the 1880s, Brady Street became a dominant commercial district of Yankee and German owned shops.^[42] Regano's Roman Coin, one of the original Pabst Brewery tied house taverns, is still located on Brady Street, though the vintage beer signs outside buildings taverns read "Blatz". This tavern was built in 1890 and is unique in that it was an architect Otto Strack design, who also designed Milwaukee's Pabst Theater.^[43] Today, Lower East Side is filled with coffee houses, nightclubs, restaurants, , thrift stores. and vintage clothing shops.

Lower East Side is often associated with was once "the heart" of Milwaukee's Italian community, as it has even been called "Milwaukee's Little Italy". But, then before World War II, it was largely home to Polish immigrants. In fact, historic St. Hedwig's Roman Catholic Church, being a long-time Polish church, which was built in 1871, stands at the corner of Brady Street and Humboldt Avenue. In the 1960s, Italians and other assimilated groups began to leave the neighborhood for the suburbs, while the hippies and other bohemians then moved in.^[41] The 1980s saw blight, decay and neglect of the neighborhood, but now the area has been under revitalization and has become a model for New Urbanism.^[41] Starting in the late 1990s, most of the bohemian population moved to Riverwest and Bay View.^{[citation needed]} This neighborhood still has exhibited a strong, albeit upscale, independent flair. As example, the Brady Street festival is an annual event in July bringing together the neighborhood in a block party fashion.

At its western end, Brady Street is terminated by the renowned Brady Street Bus Shelter designed by La Dallman, who is the Milwaukee and Boston-based architecture practice of Grace La and James Dallman, and is known as Brady Street's “gateway to the river.”^[44][45] The project, which does include a concrete, steel wood structure shelter as well as a prairie rain garden, as it is featured in numerous publications and has been awarded an American Institute of Architects Wisconsin Design Award.^[46] The Bus Shelter was the first component of the Crossroads Project, including the Marsupial Bridge, Media Garden, and Viewing Pavilion (alongside Commerce Street), which renovates the last remaining segment of the trestle of Beerline B railway.

East Village

The East Village is terminology for the Lower East Side area on the east bank of the Milwaukee River, which is north of Brady Street, from Humboldt Avenue east to Warren Avenue.^[47] Most of the neighborhood makes up the Brewers Hill Historic District, as it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The area includes Pulaski Playground, Caesar's Park, and Wolski's Tavern. The area was a traditional working-class neighborhood which was inhabited by Polish-Americans, including many Kaszubs; the architecture includes a number of Polish flats and duplexes and other forms of modest housing.^[48]

Murray Hill

Murray Hill is a neighborhood located adjacent to the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee within the larger East Side neighborhood. It is bounded by Downer Avenue on the east, Oakland Avenue on the west, Hartford Avenue located on the north, and Bradford Avenue and North Avenue on the south. It is primarily a residential neighborhood which includes housing dating back to the early decades of the 20th century, primarily bungalows, two-family duplexes, and large apartment buildings conquer the area. The neighborhood is bisected by Newberry Blvd. which connects parks on Lake Michigan (named Lake Park) and the Milwaukee River (named Riverside Park). Murray Hill is home to both a university student population and also an abundant of long-term residents. The neighborhood has an active neighborhood group, namely the Murray Hill Neighborhood Association.^[49] The childhood home of infamous industrial designer Brooks Stevens^[50] was in Murray Hill.

Riverwest

Riverwest is a primarily residential neighborhood located west of the Milwaukee River and east of Holton Street, it is situated south of Estabrook Park, which is between Milwaukee's East Side, Brewers' Hill, Williamsburg Heights, and Harambee neighborhoods. It borders Capitol Drive to the north, The Milwaukee River borders to the east, North Avenue to the south and Holton Street location to west The main east–west arterial streets - Capitol Drive, Locust Street, and then North Avenue - connect Riverwest to the East Side via bridges. The main north–south arterial streets are - Holton Street and Humboldt Boulevard - connecting Riverwest to the downtown area, the lower East Side (specifically Brady Street), and suburban Shorewood. Along with those streets, Locust, Center, and Burleigh Streets are the major vein east–west corridors with bars, shops and where people go to  congregate. Riverwest is one of the neighborhoods that established its boundaries and identity before the 1990s Neighborhood Identification Project.^{[clarification needed][citation needed]}

Riverwest is noted^[51] for its racial and ethnic diversity, including larger numbers of African-Americans and Caucasians, as well as growing Iranian, Russian, Asian, and Hispanic population.^[52] With the neighborhood's near proximity to the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, a sizable university/college student population also resides there.^[51] Rapidly rising real estate values in the nearby east side neighborhoods has made Riverwest become more attractive to home buyers due to its closeness proximity to downtown and the university. These factors, along with other housing and commercial developments, followed a long period of decline in the area up through the 1990s.^{[citation needed]} More recently, the trend has been caused a rising in property values and an increase in owner-occupied housing.^{[citation needed]} Riverwest still features more affordable rental opportunities in its bungalows, duplexes, and "Polish flats" than is generally found closer to the university.^{[citation needed]} Riverwest's high level of racial and economic integration has been studied in the 2017 book Live and Let Live by sociologist Evelyn M. Perry.^[53]

Riverwest has many nonprofit and volunteer-run organizations here, such as its neighborhood association, a community newspaper, a grocery co-op, Woodland Pattern Book Center, The Public House (co-op bar) co-op, an investment co-op, infoshop Milwaukee River Advocates, as well as a volunteer-run community radio station.^[54] Riverwest has many festivals, including Locust Street Days, Center Street Daze event. The Riverwest 24, Milwaukee's only 24-hour annual bike race, started in 2008 and features local bands with multiple neighborhood block parties .^[55] The neighborhood also features the Riverwest Art Walk, the state's largest walking tour of artists' homes and studios, neighborhood galleries, and various alternative spaces.^[56] 

Beerline B

The Beerline B is part of the Riverwest neighborhood as it is defined by city of Milwaukee.^[59]

Milwaukee's West Side

Avenues West[edit]

Avenues West is an area west of Milwaukee's downtown. It has borders by Interstate 43 on the east, 27th Street on the west, Interstate 94 to the south, and on the north is by Highland Avenue. In decades of the past, this neighborhood has been one of low income levels and property values. It was also home to Jeffery Dahmer, a notorious serial killer who murdered several of his victims at his apartment in the neighborhood Map. It has begun more recently to see some signs of redevelopment.^[60] The most known mentioned example as being the Ambassador Hotel that, that until recently, has been linked with drug dealing and prostitution and has then since been restored to an upscale establishment. Prostitution, although not quite as prevalent as it was in the 2000s is still a concern in the Avenues West area. In an attempt to help control crime in this area, the college known as Marquette University went so far as to provide a small additional station for the Milwaukee Police Department's 3rd District, fittingly named "Avenues West". Other notable places in the area include Marquette University, the Milwaukee Rescue Mission, the Pabst Mansion, the Joseph B. Kalvelage House and the Rave/Eagles Ballroom. The portion to the west of the neighborhood along 27th Street has been recently nicknamed SoHi (i.e., South of Highland Boulevard) by the business owners in an effort to jumpstart the area.^[61]

On May 18, 2006 a construction worker unearthed human remains in the neighborhood believed to be the location of Milwaukee's first cemetery established in the First Ward (known as the "Old Cemetery") near 22nd and Michigan. Thirteen burials have since been identified, and archaeologists are unsure if they are remnants from the Old Cemetery or an even earlier burial site used by a Potawatomi village Indians.^[62]

University Hill

University Hill (or simplified Marquette) is a university campus neighborhood, it generally combined with the Avenues West neighborhood (since it is within), that, as its name implies, is the  home to Marquette University campus. The neighborhood does encompass a 93-acre (380,000 m²) from 9th Street on the east, to 20th Street on the west, and from Wells Street on the north location, to Clybourn Street on the south location. Wisconsin Avenue, a major thoroughfare in Milwaukee, bisecting the campus neighborhood. This neighborhood is in position adjacent northwest and partially northeast of the Marquette Interchange, which was named its namesake because of its proximity to Marquette University. Lake Michigan is roughly one mile east of the neighborhood. Gesu Church is located within the campus' urban setting, but is not affiliated with the university. The area was at one time the site of the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds.^{[citation needed]}

Cold Spring Park

Cold Spring Park is a small neighborhood in the vicinity of the Miller Brewing Company which is on the west side. Cold Spring Park has been around since the mid-19th century. It is named for a natural spring that was found in the northwest corner of the area (then bounded by 27th Street, 35th Street, West Juneau Avenue, and Vliet Street). As far as crime, Cold Spring Park is a rather calm area, compared to the other nearby sections of Milwaukee.

In 1852, Cold Spring Park was the site of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society fair and exhibition. During the American Civil War, Cold Spring Park became Camp Washburn, housing the 2nd Cavalry, 30th Infantry, and the 39th Regiment. After the Civil War, Cold Spring Park once went back to become a race track. A race that was commemorated by famous Currier and Ives depicted an 1871 record breaking race by the mare Goldsmith Maid, with a time of 2 minutes and 17 seconds.

Adjacent to Cold Spring Park was the Cold Spring House, which was a hotel housing visitors and drivers for the races. It was notorious for its gambling, cockfights, courtesans and dances. At the close of the 19th century, Milwaukee saw a population boom, prompting the necessity of two new streets in Cold Spring Park; Highland Boulevard (1896) and McKinley Boulevard (1906).

Cold Spring Park initially drew German-American residents of the moderate to upper income scale. The upper end population residing primarily on Highland and McKinley, while the middle to moderate income community resided on Juneau and the numbered streets. Highland Boulevard, Juneau Avenue, and McKinley Boulevard have been designated 'historical streets' by the City of Milwaukee.

Historic Concordia District

Historic Concordia District is an area of location between 27th Street, 35th St, Wisconsin Avenue, and Highland Boulevard on Milwaukee's near west side. It is the home of both a local historic district and many nationally registered historic properties, including the Tripoli Shrine Temple. Many Victorian homes in the neighborhood have been converted into bed and breakfasts. Notable historical homes include the 1850s Tower House and 1860s Col. Theodore Yates residence. Several private residences are opened to the public each year on the Saturday of Fathers Day weekend for a home tour by Historic Concordia Neighbors Inc.^{[63][citation needed]}

Concordia college (now known as Concordia University) was located in the neighborhood for 100 years, until 1983. The college's former facilities, between 31st and 33rd streets and State St. and Highland Blvd., are now the home of the Indian Community School.

 

Enderis Park

The Enderis Park neighborhood is a primarily residential neighborhood surrounded by North 76th Street, North 67th Street, West Center Street, and Burleigh/Lisbon Avenue. Many houses date from the 1930s and 1940s. The geographic and cultural heart and focus of the neighborhood is the Enderis Playfield, as it was named for Dorothy Enderis, a public recreation pioneer who retired as an assistant superintendent in the Milwaukee Public Schools teacher in 1948.^[64] In 2006, neighbors rallied to rejuvenate the park, which had fallen into disrepair. Magic Grove, a monumental steel sculpture by Wisconsin artist Nancy Metz White, was installed, providing a community gathering place in the park.^[65]

Grantosa Heights

Located between Granville and Wauwatosa, Grantosa Heights is a highly urban neighborhood with a diverse population. This is a lower middle class area with predominantly African-American and Laotian residents.^{[citation needed]} The neighborhood is named after the street, Grantosa Drive, which seems to be the border with Midtown. Much of this area's architecture consists of tract homes from the 1950s and 1960s. In recent years, this neighborhood has become home to many of the refugees that have fled the country Laos.^{[citation needed]}

Kops Park

Kops Park is bordered by North 92nd Street to the west, West Burleigh Street to the south, West Lisbon Avenue to the north, and North 76th Street to the east. The neighborhood is centered around Kops Park as the hub, it is named after Gerald Henry Kops, a Milwaukee County Supervisor.

Martin Drive

The Martin Drive neighborhood location is on Milwaukee's west side. The neighborhood is located north and west of Miller Brewing Company Brewery. It includes Harley-Davidson and the Highland Avenue Viaduct. The neighborhood was built up in the 1920s and includes multiple older apartment buildings. The neighborhood has retained its density and is still one of the safest neighborhoods in the city according to statistics.^[66] Martin Drive is bordered by Martin Drive in the south, 35th Street in the east, Vliet Street in the north, and WIS 175 in the west. Milwaukee's Washington Park is located adjacent, just north of the neighborhood location.

After several decades of stagnant growth the neighborhood is now seeing redevelopment with a few new businesses and building renovations. As such, the neighborhood supports many small and upstart businesses including Eat Cake, Milwaukee Nut Company, a law office and State Street Animal Hospital which is among others. Martin Drive does have several private and public schools nearby. Grocery stores, hardware stores and pharmacies are in close proximity to the Martin Drive Neighborhood. The neighborhood has a strong and dedicated volunteer-led neighborhood association, the Martin Drive Neighborhood Association.^[67]

Merrill Park[edit]

Merrill Park is a residential neighborhood east of Piggsville. Its traditional boundaries are 27th Street on the east, 35th Street on the west, Wisconsin Avenue on the north, and the Menomonee Valley on the south. Traditionally an Irish-American enclave, it is now an ethnically diverse neighborhood. There is little in the way of commerce in Merrill Park, largely confined to the boundary streets, which are major arterials.

Merrill Park was an early home to Milwaukee's Irish community. Many Irish settled in Merrill Park along with the rest of the west side of Milwaukee.^{[citation needed]} The southern portion of the neighborhood was demolished in the 1950s in order to build Interstate 94. The 1960s brought on several redevelopment projects including streetscaping, new homes, and a new public housing tower. Marquette University High School has stayed in the neighborhood and has invested heavily in improving its campus and the surrounding neighborhood.

The neighborhood is seeing major physical improvements. Several new homes have been built on former vacant lots. Several old homes have been purchased and renovated. The Wisconsin Humane Society has made this neighborhood its primary location. Marquette University High School is undergoing a multimillion-dollar renovation and construction project as well.

Piggsville[edit]

Piggsville is a small residential enclave, four blocks by six blocks, at the west end of the Menomonee River Valley, south of Miller Brewing and the Wisconsin Avenue viaduct, and north of Interstate 94. Various theories have been proposed about its name, but none have been proven true. It is also known as Valley Park, and its neighborhood association is the Valley Park Civic Association. Most of its homes were built in the early 20th century. The area was annexed by the City of Milwaukee in 1925 after petition by its residents. Flooding has been a problem because of its river valley location, and a new concrete retaining wall was built in 2000.

Mount Mary

Mount Mary surrounds the college called Mount Mary University. It is bordered by Concordia Ave. on the north end, 89th St. on the east side, Center St. on the south and Menomonee River Parkway on the west location.^[68] With several curvilinear streets and fewer sidewalks, the neighborhood resembles a suburban neighborhood. Most of the homes were built in the 1950s. The City of Wauwatosa is to the south and to the west. Milwaukee County Kops and Cooper Parks also border this neighborhood. Portions are also named Golden Valley in which is made up of of 1950s tract homes built primarily by Welbilt Homes and Corrigan Builders.

Story Hill

Story Hill is a neighborhood located directly north of Miller Park and south of the Washington Heights neighborhood, as it is on the west side of Milwaukee. Story Hill is named for Hiram Story. Hiram, along with his brother Horace, founded a quarry on the land in this area.^[69] This neighborhood in itself lies on the hill just south of Wisconsin Avenue and it is characterized to be quite, tree-lined streets and an isolated from-city type feel, in sharp contrast to the busier and more depressed neighborhoods that surround it.

Story Hill was developed in the 1920s as a sanctuary place where middle class Milwaukeeans could live just east and toward downtown, in the once affluent Concordia district.^{[citation needed]} The demand for larger lots and a more suburban feel fueled the development of Story Hill. The housing stock consists of ornate early 20th-century houses, in which were usually made of brick.

Walnut Hill

Walnut Hill is made up of predominantly African-American neighborhood and is located on the west side, which is bordered by 27th Street, 35th Street, Vliet Street, and North Avenue. There is also a strong southeast Asian (Hmong) presence here. The area is one of the most blighted in the city.^{[citation needed]} Parts of the neighborhood included are streets without homes and large vacant lots. Despite severe problems in the neighborhood, several homes are under construction and some middle-income proposals are beginning to rise up and be seen.^{[citation needed]}

Washington Heights

Washington Heights neighborhood is characterized by its 1920s Arts and Crafts existing housing stock. It's boundaries of Washington Heights are 60th St. on the west, North Ave. on the north, 47th St. and Washington Park on the east, and Vliet St. on the south location. Washington Heights should not be confused with The Washington Highlands, a neighborhood on the other side of 60th St., in Wauwatosa, being a suburb of Milwaukee.

St. James Evangelical Lutheran Church is a prominent congregation in the area, which dates back to1920s. Mount Olive Lutheran Church and School situated across the street from Saint Sebastian Catholic Church and School, built respectively in the 1920s and 1930s, at North 54th Street and Washington Boulevard, are large congregations in which they both serve as strong cornerstones within the neighborhood community. There has been substantial growth of  business along its Vliet Street corridor, with many new art galleries, wine shops and restaurants. One business, a long time coffee shop recently turned into a pizzeria, is unique in that it has a large coffee cup on the roof. The central administrative office building of Milwaukee Public Schools has its location in this neighborhood.

Washington Heights, is a neighborhood that does advertisements indicating itself as, "In the City — Out of the Ordinary!" lies along this  Milwaukee western border. While the neighborhood is now only minutes from downtown and close to urban amenities, this area was once considered remote in the early years.

Development of the area commenced in 1838 when federal government gave a parcel of land to the Wisconsin Territory. The land was intended for use as a canal that would connect the Rock River to Lake Michigan, but the venture quickly failed. The land was then sold to private investors.

In 1839, approximately, two-thirds of what is now known as Washington Heights was purchased by George Dousman as he turned it into an gigantic farm. In addition to its agricultural business operation, the Dousman family founded the Ne-Ska-Ra Mineral Springs Company, which had sold bottled water from a spring located on their property. Today the elementary school named Neeskara occupies land where the spring flowed. In later years, the Dousman land was sold in several parcels between the 1880s and the 1920s.

Early settlement of the area owed much to two major 19th Century projects. The two projects were the extension of the streetcar line to Wauwatosa and the construction of Washington Park.

The area has a notably-strong neighborhood community organization, the Washington Heights Neighborhood Association.

Washington Park

Washington Park is located on Milwaukee's West Side and is bounded by 35th street in the east, US-41 in the west, Vilet Street in the south and North Avenue in the north location. Sherman Boulevard and Lisbon Avenue run through the neighborhood. Sherman Boulevard is lined and sits with large brick homes and old large trees. In the 1950s, The major business street was Lisbon, today though, with a rise in prostitution and the crime that comes with prostitution, it is home to several storefronts that are vacant. The neighborhood is now settled by a majority African American population.

Washington Park, (originally known as West Park), a 128.5-acre (520,000 m²) focal point and namesake of the neighborhood, was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, the famed designer of New York's Central Park, and built in 1891.^[70] The Milwaukee County Zoo started in this neighborhood in 1892 as the "West Park Zoological Gardens," aa a small mammal and bird exhibition in the West Park barn.

On September 20, 1900, the West Park was renamed Washington Park and the zoo followed suit by renaming to Washington Park Zoo. The zoo was then relocated to the present location when Washington Park lost an 18-acre (73,000 m²) parcel of park property to make way for the freeway expansion in the early 1960s.^[71] Ice skating and regular outdoor concerts occurred in Washington Park until the early 1970s.^{[citation needed]} Today, the park houses an amphitheatre and pool. In 2007, Milwaukee's Urban Ecology Center (headquartered in Riverside Park on the East Side) opened at satellite center in the park in an effort to help rejuvenate the run-down green space and provide interactive nature programming to youth locals.^[70]

Lisbon and Sherman intersection, is the heart of the neighborhood, it stands an equestrian statue of Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, a German general who did assist George Washington in the American Revolutionary War. Across from this traffic circle features the new Washington Park Library, which has replaced the old Boulevard Inn restaurant, which burned down in the 1990s.

Milwaukee's Downtown

East Town

The East Town neighborhood encompasses the eastern portion of downtown area. as Milwaukee's central business district from the Milwaukee River on the west to Lake Michigan on the east end, and from Ogden Avenue (i.e., the lower East Side) on the north to Clybourn (i.e., the Third Ward) on the south.^[72]

Yankee Hill is a key part of the East Town neighborhood, being situated within East Town's boundaries, but yet closer to the lake and north of downtown area. The East Town area also contains the historic Juneau Town settlement, which had competed with the neighboring Kilbourn Town (present-day Westown) for people and resources. With the Milwaukee River as the dividing point, these were two "towns" that have remarkably different feels. East Town has dense, narrower streets and a more closer intimate feel, whereas Westown has broad, vast streets with old buildings on it.

The buildings in East Town are newer indeed. Strikingly modern skyscrapers of the Northwestern Mutual Life complex and Milwaukee's tallest building, the U.S. Bank Center, as well as the city's four other tallest buildings, dominate the eastern portion of this neighborhood. Other buildings worth mentioning are the Chase Bank building, the Wisconsin Gas Building, the Faison building, and the Morgan Stanley building. Two large condominium developments, University Club tower and Kilbourne Tower, have been recently completed in the northern half of the neighborhood. Both buildings are more than 32 stories tall and include multiple-million-dollar penthouse units.

The neighborhood also contains the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist and Old St. Mary's Church which have fortunately survived from the early days of Milwaukee. The East Town neighborhood association hosts Jazz in the Park, an outdoor music concert series at Cathedral Square Park. The area has become the center of nightlife in Milwaukee as thet feature several trendy nightclubs, in addition to outdoor eateries in an upscale nature. In the summer, East Town sponsors the Parisian festival called Bastille Days and in winter featuring Holiday City of Lights. The Milwaukee School of Engineering campus is located in this area.

Menomonee River Valley

The Menomonee Valley once was the (industrial) heart and livelihood of the Milwaukee, as it employed thousands of people servicing the heavy industry and railroading. In spite of spite decades in decline, the Menomonee River Valley is still the home to many manufacturers, the Potawatomi Casino, and Miller Park, being the home baseball field of the Milwaukee Brewers. The Menomonee Valley is home to the motorcycle pioneer, Harley-Davidson Museum, which opened in July 2008.

Redevelopment phase in Menomonee Valley added thousands of jobs and has transformed a once-blighted former industrial land into parkland and community gathering space. In 2007, the Sierra Club recognized Menomonee Valley as a national example of environmentally friendly urban renewal.

Historic Third Ward

This once home to Irish descendants, and then, Italian immigrants, the Historic Third Ward, located just to the south of downtown, has now become an upper-class neighborhood. The Third Ward is noted for large numbers of condominiums buildings and loft apartments buildings, antique stores, boutiques and art galleries. With access to Milwaukee's Henry Maier Festival Grounds, otherwise best known for Summerfest, can be obtained through this neighborhood. It is home to the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, ComedySportz, and it is also boasts as the center of Milwaukee's gay and lesbian community. Located just west of this now trendy neighborhood of nightclubs featuring outdoor "River Walk" restaurants, is Milwaukee's main transportation hub including the Milwaukee Intermodal Station, which services Amtrak, Greyhound Bus Lines, and Badger Bus.

The neighborhood is referred to as the Historic Third Ward since redistricting over the years currently has the area in the fourth (political) ward.

Westown[edit]

Westown is an area west of the Milwaukee River and downtown, bounded by I-794 on the south, Marquette University neighborhood on the west, McKinley Avenue on the north, and the Milwaukee river on the east.^[73]

The neighborhood comprises the original Kilbourn Town in what is now downtown Milwaukee. The Shops of Grand Avenue, along with various theaters, restaurants, nightclubs, lies along Wisconsin Avenue. Other attractions in this neighborhood include the Milwaukee Public Museum, the Bradley Center, the US Cellular Arena, the Milwaukee County Courthouse and Old World Third Street.

The area has also become a focal point for Milwaukee's urban scene with events such as RiverSplash!, a three-day block party which begins Milwaukee's summer festival season, and River Rhythms, both held at Pere Marquette Park.

The Westown neighborhood has seen quite the substantial abundance area in redevelopment since the 2000s. It is home to one of Milwaukee's two free, public Wi-Fi outdoor Hotspots which are located in Pere Marquette Park.^[74] Within West Town about 3,000 population reside. Some of the skyscrapers here, like the Wisconsin Tower have been converted into upscale condominiums. The city of Milwaukee have wanted to develop Westown as a neighborhood to eat, live and work.

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