The leaders behind a decade-long effort to convert a 24-acre brownfield in Milwaukee’s Menomonee Valley into an urban park and outdoor science classroom are celebrating the completion of the project this month.

Today, leaders with Menomonee Valley Partners (MVP) and the Urban Ecology Center (UEC) announced the completion of Menomonee Valley – From the Ground Up, a comprehensive $25 million multi-year campaign that transformed a 24-acre brownfield into an active urban park, state trail, and outdoor science classroom; turned a vacant bar into a community center; and reconnected communities separated for more than a generation.

Ken Leinbach was recently canoeing through the Menomonee Valley when he spotted a rare mink — something he'd never seen during more than 20 years of operating a Milwaukee environmental education center.

Valley Week is an annual series of events that showcases all Milwaukee’s Menomonee River Valley has to offer - and it’s coming back in a few weeks! Brian is in the Valley with a preview of the native gardening portion of this year’s event.

The largest single site of industrial contamination in Wisconsin has been certified by the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) as cleaned up.

The 110-acre brownfield was where the Milwaukee Road Shops stretched out as a sprawling complex of industry dedicated to producing and repairing rail cars and locomotives. In the beginning of the 20th century as many as 3,000 workers labored away at the shops on the rail cars that carried freight and passengers around the country.

Enjoy free, community rowing all summer with All Hands Boatworks.  Explore the Menomonee River aboard student-built wooden row boats.  

Rite-Hite Holding Corp.‘s plans for its new Reed Street Yards headquarters campus in Milwaukee show the company could expand beyond its proposed 240,700-square-foot footprint.

Plans to add more Amtrak trips between Milwaukee and Chicago are getting a boost from improvements coming to a Menomonee Valley rail yard. The Muskego Yard improvements will create a route for Canadian Pacific's freight trains to bypass the railroad's mainline tracks that run through the Milwaukee Intermodal Station, which also serves Amtrak passenger trains. This will also decrease traffic delays at railroad crossings near the Intermodal, both at 2nd and 13th streets.

Rite-Hite Holding Corp. plans to acquire the remaining open land in the Reed Street Yards near downtown Milwaukee for a new world headquarters with more than 300 employees.

…as one of that state’s largest minority-owned and -operated businesses, Potawatomi Hotel & Casino has entertained millions of guests, helped transform the city’s Menomonee Valley into a thriving business corridor, created opportunity for thousands of employees and has consistently given back to the community.