Kenosha One Year Later: Movement afoot in key Uptown rebuilding projects

There isn’t much to see just yet, but in the not-too-distant future, the rebuild in the Uptown district of Kenosha is going to start taking shape.

And that could just be the start of what may be a flurry of activity in the months and even years ahead.

Three City of Kenosha officials, including Mayor John Antaramian, spoke last week about the state of affairs in Uptown, an area ravaged by the riots and civil unrest last summer. But it also is an area that was long struggling before the unrest. A fire just weeks before the riots leveled a storefront on the east side of 22nd Avenue. And, off 63rd Street, the failed Brassworks development sits mostly idle....
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