Mayor Cavalier Johnson announced that he and his wife have bought a new home and moved to a new neighborhood in the city. | Mayor of Milwaukee/Twitter
Mayor Cavalier Johnson announced that he and his wife have bought a new home and moved to a new neighborhood in the city. | Mayor of Milwaukee/Twitter
Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson feels at home wherever he is in the city.
“There is nothing I love more than being out in the community, meeting people, and seeing all of the great work that is being done,” Johnson recently tweeted following an announcement that he and his wife Dominique have bought a new home and moved to a new neighborhood in the city.
UrbanMilwaukee.com reports the couple purchased a 120-year-old mansion in the historic Concordia neighborhood near the Marquette University campus on the near west side after selling their N. 63rd Street dwelling.
Easily one of the city’s most diverse neighborhoods, the Near West Side is known for its array of office buildings, single-family and duplex residences, and a high school, all within a couple of blocks of each other.
According to UrbanMilwaukee, one of the apartment buildings near the mayor’s new abode is subsidized housing and another is notorious for having its tenants be evicted.
At the same time, the neighborhood has plenty of historic mansions, many of them in different states of repair. Besides being vastly different from all his predecessors, Johnson’s choice of housing is seen as a sign of his confidence in the neighborhood and belief in new projects.
In the end, the Johnsons paid $350,000 for their Tudor Revival-style house, which was most recently owned by the tax-exempt Society of the Jesuits and home to members of the religious order.
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