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that’s smack dab between the recreational activities of ‘Lake Country’ and Lake Michigan, both just 15 minutes from Menomonee Falls.” Zwagerman adds, “The Village offers excellent amenities and services; great school districts, and public safety– in low crime rankings.” Menomonee Falls was recently designated as the safest city in Wisconsin with a population over 30,000. “We also have wonderful recre- ation, parks, cultural activities, and quick access to Milwaukee, less than half an hour away,” he adds. “All at a price that’s very affordable to live and to locate a business.” With affordable housing, relatively low tax rates, convenient access to transportation, and available land, the Village has a lot going for it and is ideally poised for growth. “The great people and businesses that are already here work hard, every day, to make the community even better,” Zwagerman shares. “Even though we’re a larger and growing community, there is a tight-knit feel among businesses, among peo- ple that work at the Village, among community organizations that is pushing the community from good to great! That’s what we strive to do in our office as well.” ing as a restaurant with outdoor dining, making it a downtown destination that can work hand in hand with apartment living and the Fresh Times Farmers’ Market – somewhere people can enjoy during the day and at night. In the way of green initiatives, Menomonee Falls has had many LEED certified buildings constructed in the last few years, and the Vil- lage utilizes grants to help with brownfield remediation and historic preservation. Gilbertson notes, “The Village was awarded a Community Development Investment Grant from the WEDC to assist in the historic preser- vation and adaptive reuse of the Fire Station into a dynamic restaurant use. Although the WEDC does not require the use of green tech- nology or practices, they take historic preserva- tion into careful consideration when awarding grants.We also remediated another site down- town with the help of the WEDC and their Site Assessment Grant. The Grant allowed the prop- erty owner to take down a 1940s-era gas sta- tion, and remediate the site where eight under- ground fuel tanks had leaked out. Final cleanup is now in process on that site.” To anyone outside the region, Menomonee Falls is considered an inner ring suburb of Mil- waukee - with a historic downtown, extensive park system, and housing that ranges from 19th century to modern construction and everything in between. Carran extols the virtues of “a loca- tion with an Interstate that connects you rapidly to everything in the region.We’re in Waukesha County– a suburban area west of Milwaukee, VILLAGE OF MENOMONEE FALLS, WISCONSIN PREFERRED VENDOR n StarGarden Corporation www.stargarden.com