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Garden Conservancy Open Days is an award-winning national garden education program. The Garden Conservancy introduced Open Days in 1995 to share exceptional gardens with the public, providing access to outstanding examples of design and horticultural practice. Garden Conservancy Open Days is America’s only national private garden-visiting program, and is made possible by the work of hundreds of volunteers nationwide. The Garden Conservancy is a national nonprofit supported by mostly by individuals. Author and activist Michael Pollan, writing in Vogue, said, “What the Garden Conservancy has launched is an institution. [Open Days] could do more for horticultural cross-fertilization than anything...

NEWaukee announced the 3rd annual Night Market, a monthly open-air market that offers a wide variety of experiences for people of all backgrounds and ages on West Wisconsin Avenue between 2nd and 4th Streets. Coming back this year are the programmatic and artistic collaborations that aim to connect the Westown Association Farmers’ Market and River Rhythms along with the Night Market to further expand upon the exciting momentum in the downtown’s western neighborhood. NEWaukee founded the Night Market in the summer of 2014 with the goal of creating a free, vibrant, safe and interactive place in downtown Milwaukee for...

Milwaukee Downtown names its 2016 Downtown Achievement Award winners at the conclusion of its annual meeting. Catalytic projects and leaders were honored for their contributions to the central business district. Milwaukee Downtown, BID #21 hosted its Downtown Achievement Awards program as part of its 2016 annual meeting on Thursday, May 19. Nearly 300 downtown stakeholders gathered to hear accomplishments and upcoming initiatives, as well as to gain insight from downtown development expert Brad Segal, founder and president of Progressive Urban Management Associates (P.U.M.A.), on global trends affecting downtowns. At the conclusion of the annual meeting, catalytic projects and leaders...

The Milwaukee Bus Rapid Transit line will attract thousands of new riders and better serve low income riders. The total distance of the route is 8.96 – 9.28 miles, depending on which route is chosen through downtown. A new analysis of the proposed MCTS Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line from Downtown Milwaukee to Wauwatosa finds the service would speed up travel time, better serve low income riders and serve as many as 9,000 new riders a day in the East-West Corridor by the year 2035. The analysis was done as part of the East-West BRT Feasibility Study. Milwaukee County and...

Three Milwaukee historical institutions, Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee County Historical Society and the Pabst Mansion will host Brunch with the Barons: A New Beer Event Brewing in Milwaukee. Forest Home Cemetery, The Pabst Mansion and the Milwaukee County Historical Society are hosting Brunch with the Barons, a fundraiser that will take place for this first time on Saturday, June 18th from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Hosted by Forest Home Cemetery, this event will bring Milwaukee’s “beer royalty” alive in a new and unique way. The public is welcome to attend and tickets are now on sale. Highlights of...