Sustainable Urban Redevelopment: Milwaukee’s Menomonee Valley

The Vision To Revitalize Menomonee Valley for the benefit of the entire Milwaukee community

Best Practices from the Menomonee Valley

Best Practices Visionary Planning Bold Goals & Objectives Value Added After the Deal

Public / Private Partnership National Design Competition Design Charrettes Land Use + Market Analysis Visionary Planning

Infrastructure

Integrated Site Planning

Stormwater Parking Hank Aaron State Trail Adaptive Reuse

Reusing fill from the Marquette Interchange kept 75,000 truckloads of material from the landfill. And, crushed concrete builds our trails

Quantified Potential 200 Developable Acres 5,000 Family-Supporting Jobs $4 Million in Property Taxes 70 Acres of Park and Trails Goals, Objectives and Standards

Development Objectives for Job Density Sustainable Design Guidelines Recruitment for High Growth Companies Goals, Objectives and Standards

MVIC Goals MVIC now Manufacturing use Preferred→All Number of fulltime equivalent jobs* 1,294→1,302 Number of acres 59→52 FTE Jobs/Acre* 22→21 FTE Jobs/1000 SF* 1.5→1.4 Annual projected wage and salary/acre* 538,193→ 992,695 Building/land coverage ratio 0.33→0.37

35 th Street 27 th Street 16 th Street 5 th Street The Sigma Group Potawatomi Casino Derse, Inc. Badger Railing Taylor Dynamometer Caleffi Hydronics Hank Aaron State Trail Palermo’s Pizza Proven Direct Harley-Davidson Museum Charter Wire

Value Added After the Deal is Done Help businesses grow in place Build business to business connections Connect businesses to resources Create a sense of neighborhood Create new amenities

Creating amenities Value Added After the Deal is Done

An Overview of a Decade of Work

New Infrastructure

6 th Street: 2000

6 th Street: 2005

Canal Street: 1999

Canal Street: 2006

300 Acres of Brownfields Redeveloped

1301 Canal Street: 2004

1301 Canal Street: 2007

400 Canal Street: 2000

400 Canal Street: 2009

MVIC: 2003

MVIC: 2009

33 New Businesses

7 Business Expansions

4,700 Jobs Created

10 Million Visitors

Every $1 of public sector funding…

Has already leveraged $3.60 of private investment

1,000,000 SF Sustainable Development

11miles of the Hank Aaron State Trail

45 acres of native plants

475 Individuals 260 Organizations

2009 One of the 10 Best Projects in the Nation the Sierra Club