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Chapel, theater and mansion will provide supportive services for veterans.

Three years after the opening of a new veterans housing development inside iconic Old Main and other nearby buildings at the Milwaukee VA Soldiers Home Historic District (Soldiers Home), a plan has officially been announced for three more buildings at the Milwaukee VA Medical Center.

Full council will render its decision on April 9.

Alexander Company aims to rehabilitate historic theater, chapel and mansion for veterans.

There are plenty of good reasons to preserve the former saloon building at 266 E. Erie St. in the Third Ward, which Milwaukee Preservation Alliance announced last week was gifted to them by owners General Capital Group and Joseph Property Development. But that doesnt mean it will be easy.

Once slated for demolition and redevelopment, the historic Catherine Foley Tavern will now be preserved by the Milwaukee Preservation Alliance.

Preservation battle ends with preservation advocates receiving 1884 tavern building.

The Miller Tavern/Catherine Foley Building was given to the Milwaukee Preservation Alliance by General Capital Group and Joseph Property Development.

Last week, Lake Park Friends sent a letter to County Supervisor Sheldon Wasserman calling on Milwaukee County to immediately reopen the long-closed Ravine Road to cars.

Milwaukee’s unique-in-the world “modernist marvel” could soon be destroyed. What might be the economic, civic, cultural and public-health tolls?