MANDI Award winners announced
The Local Initiatives Support Corp. recently announced the winners of the annual Milwaukee Awards for Neighborhood Development Innovation (MANDIs). The awards honor non-profit community groups and their partners involved in revitalizing Milwaukee neighborhoods.
The MANDI award winners:
State Farm Insurance Building Blocks Award, large project: The new, 280,000-square-foot Manpower Inc. world headquarters at 115 W. Cherry St., Milwaukee, which is on target to be LEED gold certified.
State Farm Insurance Building Blocks Award, small project: Alterra Coffee Roasters café and headquarters at the corner of Humboldt Boulevard and Chambers Street in Milwaukee.
Cornerstone Award: Good Hope Economic Development Corp., for Destiny Youth Plaza, an youth facility that is designed to provide positive outlets for children living in at-risk environments.
Trailblazer Award: Milwaukee County Green Print Program, an energy and conservation initiative for Milwaukee County-owned buildings.
Vision Award: Greater Milwaukee Foundation, for the Healthy Neighborhood Initiative, which is a collaboration to focus efforts on providing neighborhoods with the tools they need to stabilize their housing markets and engage residents in the implementation of effective self-management strategies.
Navigator Award: Peter McAvoy, vice president for Environmental Health at the Sixteenth Street Community Health Center who established the agency’s department of Environmental Health as a way for the agency to complement its clinic-based health care with community-based outreach, education and problem-solving related to environmental-based health threats.
Two area construction firms win safety and excellence awards
Brookfield-based Hunzinger Construction Co. and Waukesha-based Fred Kinateder Masonry Inc. recently received first place construction safety excellence awards from the Associated General Contractors of Amercia.
R.A. Smith and National Survey & Engineering change name
Brookfield-based R.A. Smith & Associates Inc., a civil engineering, planning, surveying, landscape architecture, GIS and 3D visualization consulting firm, and its National Survey & Engineering division changed its name this week to R.A. Smith National Inc. The name change brings together R.A. Smith & Associates, which serves state and local government, and its National Survey & Engineering division, which serves the land development industry nationwide, under one corporate name. The internal practice groups remain the same.
