Park West Redevelopment Task Force records, 1963-1983.

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Park West Redevelopment Task Force records, 1963-1983.

Records of a non-profit organization created for urban redevelopment of the Park West Freeway corridor in Milwaukee. Includes committee meeting minutes, correspondence, maps, news clippings, photographs, project proposals, reports, and research studies. The collection documents the administration and staff of the PWRTF and provides a detailed picture of its planning, strategies and proposals for land redevelopment. Executive Director David C. Hoeh and Assistant Director Brigid Sullivan-Flynn created the majority of records, which pertain largely to their tasks of identifying areas for redevelopment, finding a suitable developer, and obtaining sustained funding for their endeavors. Hoeh's correspondence files contain his letters, proposals, and reports to and from city and state officers, community groups, and developers. The annual reports of the PWRTF provide a succinct overview of the organization's activities. The collection contains detailed and extensive grant applications and reports in the files for the Milwaukee Community Development Agency, Milwaukee Department of City Development, Milwaukee Economic Development Administration, Urban Development Action Grants, and Wisconsin Department of Local Affairs and Development. The photographs found in the collection provide excellent images of the Park West area, including aerial views, and pictures of homes. Sanborn maps of the area provide details on the types of housing and buildings. A few reports concerning Milwaukee transportation predate the PWRTF's founding in 1977.

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Sullivan-Flynn, Brigid.

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Gleich, Aaron.

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Wisconsin. Dept. of Local Affairs and Development.

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Hoeh, David C.

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Milwaukee (Wis.). Community Development Agency.

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Milwaukee (Wis.). Dept. of City Development.

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Park West Redevelopment Task Force.

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The Park West Redevelopment Task Force (PWRTF) was a private, non-profit organization created in 1977 to administer the redevleopment of the land cleared for the Park Freeway West, an expressway that would have connected downtown Milwaukee with the northern and western suburbs. The PWRTF was to redevelop the Park West lands for housing, commercial areas, improvement of social services and public facilities. The PWRTF's major focus was to transfer the land from the state and county to the City of...