Episode 62 - Grand Avenue redevelopment, social architecture with NEWaukee president Angela Damiani

Since 2009, the young professional group NEWaukee has become an
ever-present player in Milwaukee's social and cultural scenes.
What began as a simple social networking group started by a
handful of friends looking to meet their peers and explore their
city has become a social architecture firm looking to change the
way Milwaukeeans young and old live, work, and play in their city
and beyond. The NEWaukee Night Market, an arts and crafts fair
that takes over a chunk of W. Wisconsin Ave. for four nights
every summer, has become a huge success. The NEWaukee-organized
Young Professional Week, a statewide program featuring hundreds
of free events, workshops, and panels, kicks off April 23. On top
of that (and dozens of other events), NEWaukee has been working
with the new ownership group of The Shops of Grand Avenue,
offering input and shaping the redevelopment of the
long-struggling downtown mall. For this episode of On The Record,
Matt Wild dropped by the NEWaukee offices (which, coincidentally,
are in the basement of the Grand Ave.) and spoke to NEWaukee
president Angela Damiani about the future of the mall, the
history of her group, and what, exactly, social architecture
means.