Fillmore Redevelopment

In order for us to understand the full effect of what the LAND project is trying to achieve you need to be able to look at other examples of torn vibrant communities being rebuilt. The Fillmore Redevelopment initiative is very similar to the LAND project here in Milwaukee on many levels. It’s a torn community where drugs and crime have made it almost unlivable for its citizens. The city has given up essentially on the community and turns its shoulder to the problems it faces. This redevelopment program is trying to achieve the same goals LAND is by recreating a sense of community free of drugs and crime. Just as how LAND has begun to take the impoverished center section of Milwaukee and transform it back to what it once was. The products of both redevelopment programs have already begun to take effect. The community is beginning to feel the changes but it’s a long and hard uphill battle.

For my archival project for LAND I would like to do some interviews of people in the neighborhood to understand how dramatic the changes in the community have been in the last fifty years. This example from the Fillmore Redevelopment program has set a nice tone for the questions that might need to be asked in an interview with one of the LAND community members.