Center for Veterans Issues: To celebrate groundbreaking of new veterans home with ceremony

Contact: Jason Rae, 414.344.1733

MEDIA ADVISORY

MILWAUKEE – The Center for Veterans Issues (CVI), in partnership with Cardinal Capital Management, will be holding a groundbreaking ceremony to recognize the construction of the Thomas H. Wynn Memorial Apartments: Veterans Manor on Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 1:15pm at the Marquette University High School Athletic Fields at 35th Street and Wisconsin Avenue in Milwaukee.

“Veterans Manor” will allow low-income veterans to live independently in safe and secure, permanent, supportive housing while offering them the individual support systems necessary to maintain independence. Veterans Manor will be a 52-unit apartment building, with one-bedroom homes of approximately 550 square feet each on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th stories. Each resident will have a fully functional kitchen, a living room area, either fully or partially handicapped accessible bathrooms and a large bedroom. The 1st story or ground level will be split, with tenant amenities and building operations occupying approximately one half and the remaining space becoming a commercial kitchen used to provide meals for the residents & MPS students, as well as a café serving affordable meals to the community.

Scheduled speakers at the groundbreaking ceremony include County Executive Scott Walker, Alderman Bob Bauman, Supervisor Elizabeth Coggs, and WHEDA Executive Director Antonio Riley.

All parties that are interested in attending should contact Jason Rae at 414-344-1733, or via e-mail at rae@nationconsulting.com.

WHERE: MUHS Campus Athletic Field

35th Street and Wisconsin Avenue

Milwaukee, WI

*Parking is available in the Student Parking Lot at 35th Street and Michigan Avenue

WHEN: Wednesday, June 30

Program begins at 1:15pm

Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin since 1989, the Center for Veterans Issues, Ltd. (CVI) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit veterans service, administration and management organization. For Veterans and their families, CVI operates 7 transitional and permanent housing facilities as well as 3 day service support centers throughout Wisconsin providing a full-spectrum of programming designed to assist Veterans wishing to become active, contributing members of society.

For more information about CVI, please visit our website at http://www.cvivet.org.