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White House Senior Advisor Tom Perez Visits the New MLK, JR. Library Apartment in the Harambee Neighborhood

August 10, 2024

By Karen Stokes On Monday, August 5th, Forward Together Wisconsin, joined White House Director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs Tom Perez and Mayor Cavalier Johnson, for a visit to the … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Cavalier Johnson, Harambee Neighborhood, Karen Stokes, MLK Library Apartments, Tom Perez

Harambee Residents Develop Community-led Plan to Improve Quality of Life

April 20, 2024

By Meredith Melland This story was originally published by Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service, where you can find other stories reporting on fifteen city neighborhoods in Milwaukee. Visit … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Harambee Neighborhood, LISC Milwaukee, Meredith Melland, planning, Quality of Life Plans

Harambee Community Healing Spaces Brings a Neighborhood Together

September 4, 2021

By Karen Stokes It’s a beautiful thing when a plan comes together. The plan in reference is the City of Milwaukee’s Healing Spaces Initiative in the Harambee neighborhood. Members of the … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Cory Malchow, Harambee Neighborhood, Healing Spaces Initiative, Kacee Ochalek, Karen Stokes

City of Milwaukee Helping to Bring New Environments to Harambee Neighborhood Through New Initiative

March 26, 2021

By Hayley Crandall The City of Milwaukee is launching a new initiative in the Harambee neighborhood to help residents build relaxing natural environments on city-owned vacant lots. The Healing … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Harambee, Harambee Neighborhood, Hayley Crandall, Healing Spaces Initiative, Kacee Ochalek

Revitalizing a Neighborhood: Sam’s Place and Shalem Healing Join Harambee Neighborhood

February 13, 2021

By Ana Martinez-Ortiz Revitalization is no small feat – be it a house, a building or a neighborhood. It’s not just a matter of having the proper permits and supplies but knowing what the people … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Ana Martinez-Ortiz, Dr. Robert Fox, Harambee Neighborhood, Sam Belton, Sam's Place, Shalem Healing

Residents Come Together for a Neighborhood Wide Clean Up

May 26, 2018

By Ana Martinez-Ortiz Although spring has been off to a slow start this year, the residents of Harambee neighborhood are not. This past Saturday residents and volunteers gathered for a bit of … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Ana Martinez-Ortiz, Clean Up, Harambee, Harambee Neighborhood, Safe and Sound

PyraMax Bank Pledge $1 Million in Foreclosed Rehab Lending for Harambee Neighborhood

July 15, 2017

By Dylan Deprey While taking a drive down Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, the numerous amounts of opportunity that line the Harambee neighborhood are simply sitting behind boarded windows and … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Dylan Deprey, First Time Home Buyers, Foreclosure, Harambee, Harambee Neighborhood, Home Improvement, Home Ownership, PyraMax Bank, Tom Barrett

Bader Philanthropies Chooses Black Owned JCP Contractors for Harambee Headquarters

February 4, 2017

By Dylan Deprey Brothers, James, Clifton and Jalin Phelps would never have dreamed of working together as children, though they all ended up working in the construction field. James was a … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Bader Philanthropies, Dan Bader, Dylan Deprey, Frank Cumberbatch, Harambee Neighborhood, Jalin Phelps, James Clifton, JCP Contractors

Riverworks Selected for 2017 Mini Block Build MKE

January 17, 2017

A neighborhood in the 6th Aldermanic District has been selected as one of the Revitalize Milwaukee 2017 Mini Block Build MKE locations, Alderwoman Milele A. Coggs said today. The Riverworks … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Harambee, Harambee Neighborhood, Milele A. Coggs, Mini Block Build, Revitalize Milwaukee, Riverworks Development Corp

The Harambee Great Neighborhood Initiative host resident input session

November 9, 2013

By Glinda Loving With the recent release of the Mayor Barrett’s 2014 Budget, and its spotlight on vacant tax foreclosed homes, the city at large is now learning about some of the issues that … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Harambee, Harambee Great Neighborhood Initiative, Harambee Neighborhood, HGNI, Leif Otteson

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