Events
Uptown Getdown
🎶 Featuring DJ Bizzon| 🍽 Food Trucks | 🛍 Local Vendors
📍 Uptown 56 Park | 🗓 Thursday, July 24 | 🕕 Music starts at 6PM
Join us for Uptown Getdown, our summer concert series that brings good vibes, local flavor, and community energy to Uptown 56 Park!
✨ What to Expect:
🎧 DJ Bizzon on the tables from 6–8PM
🍔 Food trucks serving up local eats
🛍 Vendors with art, apparel, and handmade goods
🌳 A laid-back park setting, perfect for summer evenings
Bring your lawn chairs, your appetite, and your dancing shoes—and come celebrate summer with your neighbors. Admission is free and all are welcome!
Want to vend at Uptown Getdown?
We’re accepting applications for food trucks, retail vendors, and local artists to join us at the event.
Let’s make this a night to remember—see you in the park!
Uptown Getdown
🎶 Live Music | 🍽 Food Trucks | 🛍 Local Vendors
📍 Uptown 56 Park | 🗓 Thursday, August 21 | 🕕 Music starts at 6PM
Join us for Uptown Getdown, our summer concert series that brings good vibes, local flavor, and community energy to Uptown 56 Park!
✨ What to Expect:
🎧 Live music from 6–8PM
🍔 Food trucks serving up local eats
🛍 Vendors with art, apparel, and handmade goods
🌳 A laid-back park setting, perfect for summer evenings
Bring your lawn chairs, your appetite, and your dancing shoes—and come celebrate summer with your neighbors. Admission is free and all are welcome!
Want to vend at Uptown Getdown?
We’re accepting applications for food trucks, retail vendors, and local artists to join us at the event.
Let’s make this a night to remember—see you in the park!
Uptown Crossinf BID 16 Annual Meeting & Celebration
Uptown Crossing BID Annual Meeting & Awards Celebration
Monday, June 9, 2024
3:00 – 5:00 PM
McBob’s Pub & Grill | 4919 W North Avenue, Milwaukee
Celebrate Uptown. Shape Its Future.
Join us for an afternoon of food, drinks, and community as we gather for the Uptown Crossing BID Annual Meeting & Awards Celebration.
This free event brings together business owners, property owners, partners, and community supporters to celebrate the people and businesses that make Uptown Crossing special.
What to Expect:
Free food and drinks at McBob’s
Presentation of our first-ever Uptown BID Awards
Highlights of 2024 accomplishments
Review of the Uptown Crossing Strategic Plan
Whether you’re a long-time stakeholder or newly involved, this is a great opportunity to connect with others and help shape what’s next for our district.
RSVP Today
Let us know you’re coming by registering at the link below:
Ok Toberfest and Hog Roast with Heaven’s Table
LOCATION: Uptown 56 park, 5531 W. North Avenue.
ZOOM: BID 16 BOARD MEETING
LOCATION: ZOOM MEETING.
BID 16 BOARD AGENDA
Monday, August 12, 2024 / 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
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BOARD MEMBERS
Acting President: Robert Gustafson
Vice President: Vacant
Secretary: Amanda Gabert
Treasurer: John Mueller
Matthew O’Neill, Ranell Washington, Chris Harris Morse,
& Nate Zimmerman*
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Executive Director: Tracy Staedter
*Not sworn in yet, haven’t heard from the city clerk
I. Call to Order/Attendance
Call to order
Attendance (please note who is present, who is not present).
Newcomers introduce themselves. Please inform any guests in attendance how voting on agenda items works.
II. Minutes & Financials
Approve June 2024 Minutes & July 2024 Minutes
Approve May 2024 Financial; June 2024 Financials and July 2024 Financial (Invoices, receipts and explanations located in the link provided)
III. Old Business
Reminder: Second Uptown Get Down is August 15, from 6-8 at Uptown 56 park.
IV. New Business
KEI BID to add different perennials around the Wing sculpture, pull dead plants, replace with new perennials and water plants and new pear tree once per week.
Some neighbors complained about the lights in the park being on ALL NIGHT. I checked with KEI and they confirmed that the lights shut off at 10PM.
Operating Plan 2025 initial budget
Strategic Planning, Part 3 with Montavius Jones.
V. Adjournment
The next of the BID #16 Board of Directors Meeting is Monday, September 9, 2024, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm.
Upon reasonable notice, efforts will be made to accommodate the needs of persons with disabilities through sign language interpreters or auxiliary aids. For additional information or to request services, contact the ADA Coordinator at 414-270-4163 or by writing to the ADA Coordinator at ADA Coordinator - BID #16, c/o Ogden & Company, Inc., 1665 N. Water Street, Milwaukee, WI 53202. Persons engaged in lobbying as defined in s. 305-43-4 of the Milwaukee Code of Ordinances are required to register with the City Clerk’s Office License Division. More information is available at www.milwaukee.gov/lobby or by calling 414-286-2238.
PAY THE DEVIL (bluegrass with attitude)
LOCATION: UPTOWN 56 PARK AT 5531 W. NORTH AVENUE. The Washington Heights Neighborhood Association brings you Pay the Devil, a bluegrass band with an attitude.
CONNECT & COLLABORATE: OUR ANNUAL NETWORKING EVENT
LOCATION: North Avenue Market, 5900 W. North Avenue
ZOOM: BID 16 BOARD MEETING
LOCATION: ZOOM MEETING. A full agenda and Zoom link will be published one week before the scheduled meeting.
ZOOM: BID 16 BOARD MEETING
BID 16 BOARD Meeting AGENDA Monday, April 8, 2024 / 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
ZOOM
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84328815629?pwd=jvfFLDUjEqyPQj6ZBq51isOPVBrx9q.1
Meeting ID: 843 2881 5629 Passcode: 840813
BOARD MEMBERS
Acting President: Robert Gustafson
Vice President: Vacant
Secretary: Amanda Gabert
Treasurer: John Mueller
Matthew O’Neill, Ranell Washington, Chris Harris Morse
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Executive Director: Tracy Staedter
I. Call to Order/Attendance
● Call to order.
● Attendance (please note who is present, who is not present).
● Newcomers introduce themselves. Please inform any guests in attendance how voting on
agenda items works.
II. Minutes & Financials
● Approve February Minutes
● Approve January 2024 Financials and also February 2024 Financials
o Credit card statement & receipts for January 2024
o TAS Media payment on January 2024 of $4,000 is for two invoices – Nov 2023 and Dec
2023 (see page 7 under 2006-0001 - Accounts Payable)
o Also address the question raised about 3 Horizon payments in January, 1005, 1006,
1010 invoice.
III. Old Business
● Reminder of Joint Strategic Plan Kick-Off meeting, April 17 from 5-9 pm.
● Bring board up to speed on budget shortfall and get approval for new budget numbers. See
Budget and Cashflow.
● Select CPA to do the audit.
● Today is Nate Zimmerman’s 3rd meeting. Consider Nate Zimmerman for BID board. FYI: There is
no conflict of interest if board members sit on both the BID and the EDC. See statements from
Jackie Ward, etc., and Stephanie Harling HERE. Also see example of a Conflict of Interest
Statement.
● Update on transitioning to a new accounting firm.
● Update on agreement with Laura to water the park
● Update on park sign design.
● Update on FUN DECK program.
● Update on Annual Meeting.
● Update on Uptown Get Down.
● Please approve policies
o park use
o making charitable donations
o receiving sponsorships
IV. New Business
● Proposal from Wes Tank of Think Tank for a Public Media Experience.
V. Adjournment
Next meeting of the BID #16 Board of Directors Meeting is Monday, May 13, 2024, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm.
Upon reasonable notice, efforts will be made to accommodate the needs of persons with disabilities through sign language interpreters or auxiliary aids. For additional information or to request services, contact the ADA Coordinator at 414-270-4163 or by writing to the ADA Coordinator at ADA Coordinator - BID #16, c/o Ogden & Company, Inc., 1665 N. Water Street, Milwaukee, WI 53202. Persons engaged in lobbying as defined in s. 305-43-4 of the Milwaukee Code of Ordinances are required to register with the City Clerk’s Office License Division. More information is available at www.milwaukee.gov/lobby or by calling 414-286-2238.
BID 16 BOARD MEETING
LOCATION: ZOOM MEETING. A full agenda and Zoom link will be published one week before the scheduled meeting.