Posted on 04/30/2012 9:40:01 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Gov. Scott Walker on Monday unveiled a $100 million two-year "Transform Milwaukee" plan aimed at focusing his administration's top economic resources on one of the poorest sections of Milwaukee's inner city.
The plan is meant to coordinate the resources of multiple state agencies with the city and other economic development entities.
It includes efforts to reoccupy foreclosed and vacant properties, provide loans and venture funding for small businesses and industrial development, and improve freight and intermodal transportation to foster the revitalization of industry.
Other elements include a survey of the inner city workforce to inventory worker skills and learn what existing skills can be leveraged, as well as a proposed new job training center.
Aides said the plan will center on economically ravaged areas of the north and south sides of Milwaukee, but the predominant area will be the city's 30th St. corridor. The corridor, which pulsated with heavy industry in the city's manufacturing heyday in the last century, was devastated by deindustrialization, global competition and chronic high unemployment.
The area has stymied economic planners for years. The factories that once lined a north-side freight rail line are mostly vacant or torn down, leaving an employment vacuum and economic depression.
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Gov. Scott Walker unveiled a Milwaukee economic development plan Monday at the Hatco Corporation Storage Warehouse on South 28th Street in Milwaukee. Joining Walker for the announcement were Lt . Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and Workforce Development director Reggie Newson.
Can’t wait until the libs in Wisconsin try to spin this...
Walker is fighting fire with fire. He will win the recall.
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From your keyboard to God's ears. And I pray that he is successful in the economic recovery effort too. This area of town surely needs it.
How about giving those multi-voting welfare SOB’s 40 acres and an ATV in the Aleutians?
Violent liberals will get a pass from the MSM, could be a cheap solution here. Conservatives could suggest that Occupy and the Panthers put the poorer parts of Milwaukee on their 'burn' lists'. It's a cheap solution to a tricky problem and the MSM will cover for their evil...
The end result is the productive types who built the city simply left, and the underclass flooded in.
Milwaukee, where are your Bradleys, E.P. Allises, your Harnischfegers and Pabst now?
The Liberals will say that Walker is doing this to get VOTES in his recall election, then after he'll forget about this DEPRESSED AREA!!
Of course, this area is caused by LIBERALS and UNIONS!!!
Sorry, but as the song goes, “money can’t buy you love.”
On the other hand, if he says, “This is handout money that otherwise would have gone to the government employees’ and teachers’ unions” it might just work.
I hope Walker’s well-intended “investment” in Milwaukee doesn’t turn out to be a $100M waste. Looking for housing near our college in 1963, we visited what had been a nice low cost housing development late in 1961. When we saw it, it was ready for condemnation. There was a lot of that then.
On the islands Obama just turned over to the Russians!
A Walker win in the recall will go along way to a Romney and GOP Senate win in Wisconsin. The unions and leftists are spending everything they have. If they lose they will be broke and demoralized in the fall. Here’s hoping it’s like a battle of Midway for the Wisconsin Left (and they get the role of the Japanese.)
they still have Astronautics and HD don’t they? Also when did AB close? they were still open as recently as 2002
(a few blocks west of Astro as I remember).
When I lived in Milwaukee they actually had their own banks headquartered there.
Allen Bradley is now known as Rockwell. It did not close, although a lot of its work is spread all over the US and the world.
Well... two out of three ain't bad.
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