Contact: Jason Rae, 715.790.4334
MILWAUKEE – More than 200 attendees were on hand for a groundbreaking ceremony held today by the Center for Veterans Issues (CVI), in partnership with Cardinal Capital Management, at the Marquette University High School Athletic Fields to recognize the construction of the Thomas H. Wynn Memorial Apartments: Veterans Manor.
Veterans Manor will be a 52-unit apartment building located at 35th Street and Wisconsin Avenue that will allow low-income veterans to live independently in safe, permanent and supportive housing. The four-story building will have one-bedroom homes of approximately 550 square feet each. Each resident will have a fully functional kitchen, a living room area, either fully or partially handicapped accessible bathrooms and a large bedroom. The ground level will be split, with tenant amenities and building operations occupying approximately one half and the remaining space becoming a commercial kitchen used to provide meals for the residents and MPS students, and a café serving the neighborhood as well as providing a job skills training environment.
Speakers included County Executive Scott Walker, Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority Executive Director Antonio Riley, Department of City Development Commissioner Rocky Marcoux and Aldermen Bob Bauman and Michael Murphy.
“We have you stand in harms way. You stand up in times of war and times of peace, and when you have special needs, we, as a community, like you did, must answer the call to serve,” Riley said to the veterans in attendance.
WHEDA aided in funding the project.
“This isn’t just a building. This isn’t just about supportive housing,” Walker said in his remarks at the groundbreaking. “This is about honoring those men and women who have fought […] and who have laid their lives down.”
Veterans Manor addresses numerous needs in the community, such as utilizing a long-standing blighted lot on a prominent corner in Milwaukee. The home is a certified “Green Build,” and will stimulate the development of a segment of Milwaukee that connects Story Hill to Downtown. Plus, the over $11 million of economic activity within the county and city will significantly benefit the economy, creating a large cross section of jobs, including construction, architectural, accounting, banking, maintenance, property management, tax credit compliance, counseling, job training and job development for the semi-skilled or un-skilled.
For photos or video from the event, please contact Jason Rae at (715) 790-4334 or rae@nationconsulting.com.
Based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Center for Veterans Issues, Ltd. (CVI) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit veterans administration and management organization. CVI supports the concerns of all veterans by providing information, resources, identification of funding, technical assistance and organizational development to veteran service organizations. CVI also provides transitional housing to homeless veterans, while offering many services to help veterans transition back into the community.
For more information about CVI, please visit our website at http://www.cvivet.org.
