Committee for Tuesday, June 16th at 2026 at 9 0 1 a.m.

I'm all in Baumature Committee.

To my right is Alderman Stamper, the vice chair.

To my far left is Alderman Spiker.

To my immediate left is uh our staff assistant Chris Lee, who will be joined by Alderman Jackson, and we're also joined by Alderman Hollywoman Cog and on the big board.

First item on the agenda is file 260175 resolution approving a land disposition report and authorizing the sale of the city-owned tax D property at 3276-78 North Holden Street in the 6th Aldermanning district.

Good morning, Mr.

Chair, Committee members, Dwayne Edwards with the Department of City Development's real estate staff.

Uh the file before you will approve a mixed use building at 3276-78 North Holton Street.

City of Milwaukee acquired this property through property tax foreclosure.

Seated to my right is Mr.

Curtis Martin of Home Limited and his business partner Shannon Mixon.

I think they have a fantastic story to tell the committee.

So with that, I'm going to actually turn it over to them so they can give you details.

So with that, I'd be happy to have Curtis Martin and Shannon Mixon share their details with you.

Awesome.

Great please.

So we got a little packet here for you.

Just tells you quick about us, what we've been doing.

So we started working up here last August.

We got called up by uh Axe Housing to do some of the North Side remodels.

You get the rehabilitations.

Go ahead.

No, that was Axe.

Oh, okay.

That was somebody.

So basically I was an engineer for Fairbanks Morris Defense and uh and uh ABC Supply Company of Beloy.

I did the Axe Housing Program a few years back, went through it, and even though and even though I know the construction business and all that, I did that all as a youth until I became an engineer.

Um I realize it's an overwhelming thing for homeowners, first-time home buyers.

Um I noticed there's a million people in the high end market and a million people in the uninsured low-end market, but there's no one that can develop a process in the in quality, well-insured, you know, low to medium budget range.

Um there's there's very few people in that market.

So I designed which which goes with home rehabilitation, home have um, so I designed the process because that's what I was a process of manufacturing engineer, plant engineer for these large corporations for the last 10 years.

Um I just got called to stop that and and start this business.

Um Shannon, my partner, she grew up in the contracting industry.

Her family owns business, she works for title loan companies, she knows all the back end.

I know how the front end, how to get it done.

She knows how to make sure we don't fail.

Right.

Okay.

So with that, we we were called up here by Axe Housing and Violet's Milwaukee in August.

We moved everything we had up here, and since then we've done um we've done 10 houses, 10 rehabs, you know, North 2nd Street, North 30th, North 26, North Nash, North Sixth, North 30, 45th, North 35th, North Tenth Street.

Many of them sold the FHA loans, just gone.

As soon as we finish them, they're sold.

We they keep the price point about 150 or less for sale.

Moving ready.

So um, when we were doing that, uh, Axe Housing and other people caught wind of us, um, they did uh several articles on us.

Um, so acts so basically they kind of thought it was interesting how we uh I went from an engineer and going through the acts program to leaving all that and revitalizing for acts and Milwaukee.

So uh they did an article on how we use young guys.

We only use young guys and local guys, and we we're not looking for the for the the guy, you know, the high experienced guys already got the jobs.

But we're bringing in young guys, local guys, and training them up from nothing.

As long as they show the work ethic and the desire and the willingness to learn.

We just started bringing them in on our own.

So axe caught wind of that.

They they did an article.

You'll see that in here.

Uh, once Axe they started doing the article, Melanie, the CEO of uh like Milwaukee, reached out to us and said, Hey, we have this building hope program.

We're putting all kinds of people through it, no one's getting jobs afterwards.

So we struck uh uh agreement together.

I'll apprentice their their people and teach them to do the rehabs.

We start to finish everything.