sustainable urban redevelopment: milwaukee’s menomonee valley

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

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

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

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The Sigma GroupPotawatomi Casino

Derse, Inc.

Badger RailingTaylor 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

6th Street: 2000

6th 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