RIVERWORKS LOFTS - TAKING APPLICATIONS

The Riverworks Lofts 36-unit housing project is scheduled to open this upcoming spring 2012. Amenities include 10 foot ceilings, fitness center, club room, secure lobby, washer/dryer in units, underground parking, and central heating and AC. The project is located at 3372 North Holton Street with convenient access to bus lines, the Beerline Recreational Trail, and shopping and work opportunities in the Riverworks Center business district.

We are now taking applications for the new units. If interested please call ACC Management Group at 414-372-3372.

HOPE to dedicate new building at Five Points

HOPE Christian Schools recently completed construction of a $3.27 million learning facility, the first of three buildings planned for their second grade school campus. The building has more than a dozen green features such as solar power, eco-friendly air conditioning, and energy-saving lighting controls. By design, the building’s structure and systems will be exposed and used as educational tools for students. This fall enrollment at the school increased from 70 to 150, as the middle school moved from the former Holton Youth Center and added grades K4-3 in the new building.

Please mark your calendars for the dedication of the new building on Saturday, Sept. 12, at 11 a.m.

For more information on the Hope School's new building, the first new building located in the Five Points redevelopment area of the Harambee Community, visit http://www.thehopeschools.org/articles/newschool.html

Harambee Celebrates Arts and Culture

Last Friday evening, Harambee continued its foray into Milwaukee's art scene as the storefront and exercise studio in King Commons 2 at the corner of Hadley and King hosted Gallery Night. The event was a forty-year retrospective of the work of artist Reynaldo Hernandez. A crowd of over two hundred--young, old and in-between--came through to see Reynaldo's works from over the years, addressing caustic social issues, while maintaining a sense of idealism, authenticity and progress. A jazz fusion ensemble led by Reynaldo's son on guitar provided entertainment.

The Harambee Committee on Arts and Culture has been lucky to have the active participation of an artist of Reynaldo's caliber. Reynaldo is also the artist behind the Harambee mural on the Clinton Rose Senior Center, and is currently working with youth from Harambee and Riverwest on a mural for the Beerline Trail. The HCAC plans another Gallery Night for October 16.