Sebastian Salvador
Cheap construction and the often disposable and demoralizing affect it can have for communities is something few people write about. Our great city of Milwaukee is blessed to have many great grand old buildings preserved and not torn down into ugly cookie cuter strip malls or condos. While many old warehouses have been converted downtown Milwaukee has preserved its older an proud housing stock from the twenties and thanks to great civic and urban leaders this tradition will continue.
Aldermen Nik Kovak is an outstanding liberal and far-left politician who realizes the importance of sustaining material and building. Mr Kovak hosts a radio program on the alternative universe on River West radio. River West is a hip neighborhood that refuses to let the ubiquitous big chains like Subway and other mess-upped business a toe hold in their beautiful neighborhood and alderman Kovac initiated a new ordinance that would require developers to deconstruct available buildings and now construct shitty box concrete blocks for profit.
Kovak's proposal would force these greedy developers to retain the look and feel of the neighborhood and not to be able to make it look suburban like the crap one finds in Green Dale ,Brookfield, or Greenfield. The historic preservation of building and material is important for many who chose to live in Milwaukee and it is shameful other areas in Greater Milwaukee,Chicago, and Indianapolis do not have historical look and had preservation and instead are all mini-mart gas stations that are allowed to predominate its landscape. Alderman Kovak and personally saved the Paul Weise turn of the century furniture building away from the greedy Chinese developer who wanted to put a ten story building at the location and once again ruin Americas heritage and small look to meet the objectives and look of Shangai.
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