8 vehicles hit in multiple hit-and-runs

At least eight vehicles around the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus were hit in multiple hit-and-run accidents over the weekend, police said.

There were four different accidents scenes, 5th District Lt. Kim Steck said.

He said a larger vehicle, possibly a truck, was responsible for the accidents, which all occurred around 9 a.m. Saturday.

Steck said that the accidents occurred on Kenwood Boulevard and Linwood, Downer and Farwell avenues.

The accidents remain under investigation.

Spring registration to start soon

Registration for spring classes is set to begin the week of Monday, Nov. 28. Registration times will be posted on PAWS accounts.

Students are urged to visit their advisers before registering for classes.

The spring session is set to begin Jan. 23.

UWM partners with business for chair exhibit

A Sheboygan company has partnered with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning to sponsor a unique exhibit of chairs designed by undergraduates.

Sheboygan-based Nemschoff, a leading provider of quality health care furniture, will produce full-size prototypes of the top designs from the last six years and show them in an annual public exhibit that will also include many of the small-scale models the students built.

The partnership grew out of a required activity in the school's Architecture 100 course, which is taught by associate professor Mark Keane.

Manufacturing districts retain and grow industry, study says

A long-term study of Chicago’s planned manufacturing districts conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Center for Economic Development found that the central city industrial zones have been successful in retaining industry and its growth.

The study examined Chicago’s first three planned manufacturing districts (PMDs) on the city’s northwest side, and found that the number of jobs, retention of those jobs and the number of businesses have grown since the zones were established in 1988 and 1990.

But the study also showed the employment gains recorded are mainly in sectors such as construction, transportation and wholesale trade, rather than manufacturing.

The city initiated PMDs to protect industrial firms in the central city from being pushed out by land development incompatible with manufacturing, such as residential.

The study indicates the number of businesses in the three PMDs increased from 255 to 356 between 1988 and 2004. Jobs grew from 6,588 to 7,415 during that same period. Manufacturing in the PMDs, which provides jobs with higher wages, declined between 1988 and 2000, but are showing signs of recovery in the PMDs in the last several years.

Though not without problems, PMDs remain fundamentally sound, says the study’s author, Joel Rast, UWM assistant professor of political science and urban studies and acting director of the Center for Economic Development.

The study is available online at the Center for Economic Development's Web site at http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CED/publications/pmdstudy.html.

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