A week after UWM architecture and urban planning students shared the results of a semester-long seminar looking at the potential for development in the I-794 corridor Downtown, the DoT has announced another public open house around its study of options for the freeway spur.
WisDOT – which is continuing its I-794 Lake Interchange Study in collaboration with the Federal Highway Administration, the City of Milwaukee and Milwaukee County – is planning to issue a Notice of Intent this year to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).
As part of that process, a series of public involvement meetings will be held to share more information on options for the spur – including removal, replacement in kind and replacement with improvements – with detailed data on traffic, multimodal accommodations and other facets.
It will also gather public feedback on the options.
The first of these meetings is set for Thursday, May 29, 4-7 p.m., at the Milwaukee Marriott Downtown, 625 N. Milwaukee St.
All of the options for the freeway segment will be part of the Environmental Review and one of them will be selected through the Environmental Impact Statement for implementation.
A final decision is not expected before 2027.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
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