Inner Harbor 2020 - Rotary Club of Milwaukee

Bruce A. Keyes
Foley & Lardner, LLP
Rotary Club of Milwaukee
December 9, 2014
www.HarborDistrict.org
INFO@HARBORDISTRICT.ORG
Inner Harbor 2020
Harbor District Planning Area
What’s at Stake?
• The Harbor District
has always been
central to Milwaukee’s
prosperity
– Fish and rice in the
estuary drew first
settlers
– Harbor provided an
essential, and cost
competitive freight link
for many industries
200 Years of Extractive Use
Brownfields and
Underutilized
Parcels
U.S. EPA
Area of
Concern
The Launch
UW-Milwaukee
School of
Architecture &
Urban
Planning/Brico Fund
City of Milwaukee Office of Environmental
Sustainability
Vision
Restored land and water, reimagined
infrastructure and a comprehensive economic
development policy create a resilient waterfront
that strengthens the Milwaukee community
Opportunity: Make a New
“Working Waterfront”
• Remake the Harbor District for the next 100
years
• Create mutually reinforcing ecological,
economic and social systems
Economic Opportunity
• Reinforce the Port of Milwaukee
• Build Milwaukee’s status as a Water City
• Locate new jobs near working class
communities
Ecological Opportunity
• 500 acres of property adjacent to water
• 44,000 linear feet of shoreline
• Grand Trunk – the last 6.5 acres of formerly
thousands of acres of wetlands
How do we move forward?
Build from
our strengths
How do we move forward?
Provide leadership to forge consensus among
potentially competing interests
MAKE IT BIG
Daniel Burnham’s Columbian
Exposition
Make It Smart
AltaSea Los Angeles
• Los Angeles AltaSea campus will be dedicated
to uniting global marine science, education,
business, government, philanthropy and
community.
Hold Ourselves Accountable
to Make it the Best Waterfront Toronto
$1.5 Billion
880 Acres
Waterfront Toronto
Adheres to Global Reporting Initiative
Standards
We Have Done This!!
Menomonee Valley
U.S. EPA/National Institute of
Environmental Health Campus, North
Carolina
National Great Lakes Environmental
Health and Freshwater Science
Campus?
How do we move the City’s Initiative
forward? 2014-
• Assess Current State &
Stakeholder Interviews
• Waterfront
legislative/Admin
recommendations
• Draft Bike/Ped Open Space
Plan
• Seeking EPA/WEDC
Areawide planning funds
• WEDC/WHEDA Transform
Milwaukee plan
WHEN?
• NOW: No more dialect of our deficiencies
– National leader in Green Infrastructure
– National leader in Water Technology
– National leader in Food and Beverage Production
and Technology
– Our talented manufacturing workforce is ready for
close-by jobs
– Major investments underway to ensure our City
can retain and attract top talent
• Streetcar
Arena
Bublr Bikes
When?
• 2015:
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Initiate the Waterway and Land use Plan (WaLUP)
Work with Common Council, RACM, DCD, Port, MMSD
Formalize an organization and committees
Keep trying to align the stars of Daniel Burnham
Greatness
• 2020 - New Infrastructure and first new
businesses?
If we don’t?
• 1922 City Leaders saw a
crossroads - Milwaukee risked
losing relevance
– Freight crisis looming
– City competing for businesses
– Infrastructure not adequate for
current needs
• My caution today
– Can’t build an economy just on
housing
– High cost/difficult investment
decisions will need to be made!
Thank You
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To Mayor Tom Barrett and Office of Sustainability
To Visionaries
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City: Commisioner Marcoux, Commissioner Korban, Dave Misky, Paul Vornholt, Vanessa Koster
Common Council, Ald. Murphy, Perez, Zielinski, Bauman
Green Infrastructure gods: MMSD - Kevin Shafer, DPW - Ghassan Korban
UWM/Jim Wasley, Peter McAvoy, Val Klump, Mike Lovell
Water Council and GMC for a focus on freshwater
MMAC/M7 for a focus Food and Beverage
DNR, Darsi Foss and the Brownfield Team, Steve Galarneau and the Water Team
Harbor District Team, Lilith Fowler, Peter McAvoy, Tyson Schreiner
Sixteenth St. Communiity Health Center, Ben Gramling, Iris Gonzalez
USEPA for the grant we hope we get and the AOC
WEDC/WHEDA/WISDOT Transform Milwaukee, Graef Engineering, Stephanie Hacker, Larry Witzling
Juli Kaufman, Milwaukee Riverkeeper, Barry Mandel, Anna Opgenorth, Kevin Hardman, Doug
Hagerman, Steve Strzok, Barry Mainwood, Laura Bray, WCREW,
Visionary Funders who believe in Milwaukee
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Brico Fund
WE Energies Foundation
Fund for Lake Michigan
Rockwell Automation Foundation
Bruce A. Keyes
Foley & Lardner, LLP
Rotary Club of Milwaukee
December 9, 2014
www.HarborDistrict.org
INFO@HARBORDISTRICT.ORG
Inner Harbor 2020