We have exciting news to share about the future of the Milwaukee Soldiers Home! The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) seeking responses from developers interested in rehabilitating a number of the Milwaukee Soldiers Home District's unused historic buildings (Building 2 - Old Main, Building 1 - Administration Building, Building 14 - Catholic Chaplains Quarters, and Buildings 18, 19 and 62 - Personal Quarters Buildings) using Enhanced Use Leases (EULs). You can view the RFP here. Responses to the RFP are due by 11:00 a.m. EST on May 18, 2016. EULs would allow the District's vacant buildings to be leased long-term, restored, and used to provide housing
In Milwaukee, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs issued its long-awaited request for proposals (RFP) to find developers to restore buildings in the Soldiers Home grounds. That post-Civil War campus is a national landmark and, despite the VA’s ongoing repair work on some buildings, local preservationists have long hoped for more efforts to save its historic buildings. The RFP would let developers lease Soldiers Home buildings for up to 75 years if they finance a restoration that will put buildings back into use to serve local veterans. Development proposals are due May 18. Read more on BizJournals.com.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is issuing a request for proposals from developers interested in rehabilitating six of the unused historic buildings at the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center to provide housing for homeless veterans. The buildings that would be used are part of the historic buildings in the Milwaukee Soldiers Home District at the VA Medical Center. They include: Building 2 – Old Main, Building 1 – Administration Building, Building 14 – Catholic Chaplains Quarters, and three smaller buildings 18, 19 and 62 – the Personal Quarters Buildings. The buildings would be returned to service through long-term “enhanced Use Leases,” according to the proposal. The developer wo
