Milwaukee civil rights organization Voces de la Frontera Inc. plans to buy the former Forest Home Library and move its operations there.
Milwaukee put the empty former library branch at 1432 W. Forest Home Ave. on the market in August. Voces is offering to buy it for $450,000. The organization plans to spend an additional $100,000 rehabbing the building for its uses, and would lease space there to Christopher & De Leon Law Office and an Aurora Health Care clinic, according to a city of Milwaukee staff report on the pending sale.
Voces, which focuses on immigration and worker rights, currently leases office space at 1027 S. Fifth St. in the Walker’s Point neighborhood about 10 blocks east of the former library branch.
Voces declined to comment beyond an emailed statement by executive director Christine Neumann-Ortiz that confirmed its offer the buy the property. She said the organization’s building committee is “working out the details.”
Milwaukee’s Common Council is to review the proposed sale. The city moved its library branch out of the Forest Home location to a rehabbed historic building on West Mitchell Street that developer Gorman & Co. renovated.