Author: Editor

Amid the health and financial challenges that face communities near and far, Milwaukee Downtown BID #21 is trying to encourage buildings and landmarks throughout the city to illuminate their facades with red, white, and blue lighting. Beginning the evening of March 24, U.S. Bank Center, Northwestern Mutual, The Gas Light Building, 833 East Michigan, The Pfister Hotel, and the M-K-E letters at General Mitchell International Airport were be lit in red, white, and blue in tribute to the resiliency of the nation. The Milwaukee County Historical Society will be lit starting March 27, and other locations are expected to...

Milwaukee was shrouded in fog on March 19, giving the downtown environment an abandoned mood, reflecting the social disruption brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. The city does not have the population density for the sidewalks to be filled with the crush of people during the day like New York. But neither is the corridor of Wisconsin Avenue a ghost town. There is always a bustle, with peaks and ebbs, that feels very much a living place that radiates activity. After local, state, and national leaders rolled out measures on March 12 to “flatten the curve” and slow down...