Neighbors of the Milwaukee Mercy Housing Project wanted answers

Sound familiar?

From March 9, 2010:

Angry neighbors want access to Mercy Housing project

Irate neighbors on Milwaukee’s east side stand between Mercy Housing Lakefront’s $12.7 million apartment building and a March 26 project deadline.

The Chicago-based developer needs preliminary city approval to buy a parking lot for the project. March 26 is the application deadline to receive state affordable-housing tax credits needed to pay for the project, and the developer cannot apply for the credits without the parking lot approval.

The development, planned for a triangular lot bordered by North Murray, East Thomas and North Farwell avenues, includes eight townhouses and a building with 75 apartments.

But associations representing neighborhoods around the site are trying to slow approval of the parking lot sale because, the groups argue, city government and the developers have not shared project details.

Mike Maierle, speaking on behalf of the Greenwich Village Neighborhood Association, on Tuesday told city aldermen there will be problems if the parking lot sale is approved before the neighborhood gets a look at the project.

“If you want to keep making people angry,” he told aldermen, “keep doing what you are doing.”

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