WUWM 89.7 FM | By Mallory ChengPublished September 13, 2022 at 2:00 PM CDT Last year, Milwaukee Public School’s former 37th Street School reopened as affordable housing for seniors and veterans. The project was led by Community First, an organization based in Washington Park, and the Heartland Housing Alliance. Community First works to better the neighborhood without displacing…
Press Release Due to increased growth, Community First, a local, minority owned business that has been changing the world one property at a time in Milwaukee & the surrounding counties since 2012, is growing once again.Community First’s mission is to improve the quality of Life for Milwaukee area families & neighborhoods by developing quality, safe,…
Bobby Tanzilo of OnMilwaukee checks in on the progress of $9 million project of converting the former 37th Street School, 1715 N. 37th St., into apartments. The building is owned by and being developed by Heartland Housing Alliance and Community First.
Jeramey Jannene of Urban Milwaukee reports on the progress of converting the former 37th Street School, 1715 N. 37th St., into apartments. The building is owned by and being developed by Heartland Housing Alliance and Community First.
The 37th Street School was constructed in 1903 and was designed in the Neo-Classical style by Wisconsin architect George Birnbach. In addition to facilitating public education, it also served as a neighborhood social center from the late 1910s through the 1960s. The school was finally closed in 2005.
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“Community First helped me get 100% of the things I needed fixed on my house!” Her friends and family call her “Mother Cora,” and when she invited us in her living room recently to talk about the work Community First did on her house, we knew at once why this is a fitting nickname for…