The city’s official Earth Day celebration is next Saturday, April 29, but you can get a head start on cleanup opportunities with two events on Saturday, April 22.
- First, the Friends of Grant Park are holding their annual cleanup starting at 9 a.m. Meet at the beach. The Friends will provide gloves, hot chocolate and bags. Please bring rakes, if possible.
- There is also the South Milwaukee Community & Business Association’s Kicking Butts Downtown cleanup activity, starting at 3 p.m. Details on Facebook.
Let’s clean up this city!
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Hello mayor brooks, I’m messaging you about cleaning up and re updating the Marquette plaza area. It is not the most pleasant area in SM but if you add a Starbucks and other modern shops, it would be good. Just a little idea for you.
They tried that a few years ago and it failed spectacularly. I think it was called Mountain Mud.
I think it would be better if someone local opened a coffee shop and sold or show cased local artist like Mocha Lisa in Racine.
I agree that Marquette Plaza can use some upgrades, but that is really a question for the property owner. I hope to see more investment in that property. The fact that they have two national chain anchors there already makes it viable, in my mind. As for a local coffee house, we have a terrific one already: Avenue Coffee, 911 Milwaukee Ave. Stop by around 7:30 a.m. some morning; you’ll probably see me there 🙂