Riverworks Business Improvement District #25
   

 


Community Highlights

Lot grows into community garden

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TIN Block Projects like Nigella Community Garden are contributing to the quality of the neighborhood. Up to $3,000 is available in grant dollars

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TIN projects flourishing in the area

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TIN2Since October 2009 RDC has been the community partner to NIDC for the Harambee Great Neighborhoos

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United Way: Days of Caring

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Senior Landscape Maintenance Project was possible thanks to the collaboration RDC , United Way and volunteers of Rockwell Automation. In one morning we served 11 houses senior owner occupied with yard work.

Neighborhood Development

Riverworks Development Corporation (RDC) is usually associated with business and economic development, workforce development, and real esate development...and for good reason given our history of success in these areas. But RDC has also been directly tied to neighborhood and community development since its inception almost two decades ago. It's always been a goal of the organization to not only create jobs in the Riverworks Center area, but to connect area residents to them. Through job skills training and placement, job counseling, resume writing, etc. RDC has positively affected hundreds of families in the surrounding neighborhoods.

Today the organization is expanding and able to provide even more services to residents and local businesses in the neighborhoods surrounding the Business Improvement Districts. The Financial Opportunity Center (FOC), with its focus on financial coaching and helping residents access work supports such as health insurance, is evidence of RDC building on its longstanding programs. Our recent focus on the Keefe Avenue and Holton Street corridors shows that we're expanding beyond the traditional Business Improvement District boundaries into mixed-use areas. In our efforts to redevelop these corridors, we are working alongside neighborhood associations and block clubs, universities, government, and national community development organizations. We're confident that our work will help bring new businesses and developments to these areas that will benefit neighborhood residents as well as the City of Milwaukee as a whole.

Housing Resources

The Harambee neighborhood is home to the "Harambee Great Neighborhoods TIN," one of about a dozen neighborhoods selected by the City of Milwaukee and NIDC for their Targeted Investment Neighborhood (TIN) Program. This program provides significant dollars for rehab projects to both owner-occupied and investor home owners. Recognizing the potential the TIN has to help spur home improvement projects in the Riverworks area and complement the other work RDC is involved in, Sunne Perry joined our staff. She will be working with us to promote not only the Harambee TIN but also other programs and resources related to home ownership, energy efficiency, home repair, and block improvement projects. The following link takes you to Sunne's profile on our Staff page where you can learn more about her and how she can be contacted: Sunne Perry.

For detailed information on the Targeted Investment Neighborhood program, please visit the NIDC website at http://www.mkedcd.org/housing/nidc/TINs.html. In addition to this general information you can click on the following two links for the map and brochure specific to the Harambee Great Neighborhoods TIN that Riverworks is helping support:

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Online Housing Resources

Riverworks’ Online Housing Resources provide easy access for individuals to links to housing programs and related topics such as home rehabilitation, energy efficient, home purchasing,foreclosure prevention and others. We want to bring the most updated information to our residents so regularly updates are made, be sure to check in periodically for new links and information.

Homebuying Advocacy Organizations

Allied Churches Teaching Self Empowerment (ACTS)

Career Youth Development

Housing Resources, Inc

Select Milwaukee

Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority (WHEDA)

Homebuyer Assistance Program

Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP)

Housing Rehabilitation Programs

Neighborhood Improvement Program (NIP)

Homeowner Emergency Loan Program (HELP)

Energy Efficiency Improvement Resources

Weatherization for the City of Milwaukee

Targeted Home Performance with Energy Star

Home Improvement Materials and Tools

Community Warehouse

Housing Resources, Inc

Other Assistance

Federal Disaster Assistance

Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program

If you would like more information or updates related to RDC and neighborhood development, please feel free to contact Chris Grandt at chrisg@riverworksmke.org or by phone at 414-906-9650.

 

 

 

 

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