Harbor Fest To Go!
Just a few of the items that you'll find in your FREE Harbor Fest To Go bag. Reserve your festival in a bag at bit.ly/HF2GoTickets. Thank you to Herb Kohl Philanthropies, Komatsu Mining, Michels Corporation, BID 51, V. Marchese, Inc., Fund for Lake Michigan, Forward Space, Walbec Group, Milwaukee Environmental Collaboration Office - ECO, OnMilwaukee, Mandel Group, Inc. / Harbor Yards MKE , and the Walker's Point The UPS Store for their support of this year's Harbor Fest!
Harbor Fest To Go bags are being assembled! Don't miss out on your FREE festival in a bag with family activities, sunglasses, masks, and more. Register for yours at bit.ly/HF2GoTickets . #harborfest #hf2go #harbordistrictmke
Justin Suarez (aka Aerosol Kingdom ) is finishing up his #mural on S. Water St. today! If you'd like to see him in action, stop down this afternoon next to the Milwaukee County Parks Riverfront Boat Launch.
Thank you to BID51 and The Pfister Hotel for their support. Project coordination provided by Wallpapered City . #publicart #harbordistrictmke #watercentriccity #otter #beaver #fish #kingfisher 🦦🐟🦆🎨
If you're looking for your State Fair fix, come down to The Ivy House in the Harbor District (906 S. Barclay) for their Taste of State Fair event. For more information visit their Facebook or Instagram page.
Taste of State Fair will be going on through August 12th.
Bat Detector Picks up Signal
Here's a quick video of what the bat detectors picked up from last week's trip on the KK River Trail. How cool!
Quick video on how to play Harbor District Bingo.
#harbordistrictmke
A visit toMomo Mee restaurant in the Harbor District. Visit them online and place an order at momomeerestaurant.com.
Aaron from the Harbor District is on the southern section of the Kinnickinnic River Trail taking about trees and the Trail.
Look at what's new at Harbor View Plaza!
The play structure at #harborviewplaza is officially lit for the holidays! Come down to the east end of Greenfield Avenue to check out the #christmaslights🎄 and post your pics with #harbordistrictmke . @ayres_associates @altiusbuildingco @containersup
The slide at Harbor View Plaza is open! Come down to #harborfestmke right now to check it out. #playstructure #takemetotheriver
This is how we roll.
The skates will be back on Sept. 8th for Harbor Fest. Join us!
Roll Train warms up
Roll Train is getting ready to perform @Play Streets. Come on down today to Harbor View Plaza 1 - 4pm.
Algoma
Check out this large barge!
It's the Algoma rolling into MKE from Toronto.
Our summer intern, Erin Ganzke, from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences gave her final presentation today for her #HabitatHotels internship. Some highlights of this summer's findings include:
*several observations of juvenile small mouth bass finding cover beneath Habitat Hotel baskets
*plants can grow very well in Milwaukee's inner harbor, and establishing their roots is essential for long-term plant survival
*a wet, stormy August and September made it difficult to complete regular sampling in the fall
*new ideas developed for improved sampling methods for next year to collect more data and video footage in all weather conditions
Special thanks to project funders Fund for Lake Michigan, and to National Fish and Wildlife Foundation who funded Erin's internship.
You can see a copy of Erin's presentation at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1RJFbO8RbSHIFl96JLv6rTIyPDXzR70IO or visit our Habitat Hotels website for more details. https://harbordistrict.org/projects/habitat-hotels/
Thanks everyone for coming to the Grand Trunk Wetland public meeting and special thanks to Brinn Labs for hosting and letting us play with their toys. Can you guess what Star Wars sound this is?
May the Fourth be with you.
#pewpew
The Habitat Hotels project is well underway! HDI staff are working with Bradley Tech High School students to build these underwater habitat structures, and this week students got to operate a new machine - the plasma cutter! The plasma cutter is an automated device which uses a jet stream of hot plasma to cut steel and other metals. This video shows a shelf bracket being cut. Next, students will weld fish shelves and underwater vegetation baskets to these brackets before the final Habitat Hotels are installed in the Inner Harbor.
Join us at @discoveryworldmke for Love Your Great Lakes Day tomorrow. Make sure you stop to see us and make one of these fishes. #loveyourgreatlakes #justkeepswimming
The Harbor District Initiative seeks to catalyze the redevelopment of Milwaukee's Inner Harbor into a resilient waterfront. The Harbor District Initiative brings together local, state, and federal government efforts, private sector interests, and community enthusiasm for the opportunity in the heart of our city.
