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      Tyler Maas
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      May 10, 2022
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      May 10, 2022
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      May 5, 2022
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      May 3, 2022
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      April 27, 2022
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      April 26, 2022
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      May 12, 2022
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      April 18, 2022
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Author Melanie Lawder

Melanie Lawder

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Melanie Lawder is a Milwaukee freelance writer who has reported for publications like the Milwaukee Business Journal and Riverwest Currents. Originally from New York, she landed in Milwaukee by way of Marquette University more than eight years ago and is still floored at the number of beers she can manage to buy at a local bar with just $20. She lives in Riverwest.

How one Milwaukee couple is helping transform the East Side into a destination

Melanie Lawder
December 4, 2018
Two-ish years later, and it seems all that "The East Side is dying" rhetoric may have been a bit of an overreaction.In 2016 and 2017, the supposed demise of the neighborhood was the talk of the town, sparke...
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