Harrison West

As spring takes over from a mild winter, the Harrison West Society Parks and Green Space Committee has begun planning this year’s schedule and watching for some of our long-awaited projects to begin to bear fruit. As in past years, we will hold park workdays on the last Saturdays and the Wednesdays before the last […]

Are you interested in being part of the Harrison West Society Executive Committee? The society will hold annual elections on May 18, 2016 and will be accepting nominations for president, vice president, treasurer and secretary. Society members may submit a nomination at in person at our April 20, 2016 meeting or at any time electronically. If you would like to […]

Integrated Building Systems will host their fourth annual electronics recycling drive on Friday, April 22 from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. Recycling your old or broken electronics is simple. Just drive up and drop off electronic equipment at Integrated Building Systems, 950 Michigan Avenue in Harrison West, so that it will be recycled safely, not […]

A new multi-family residential development has been proposed for 1018 Pennsylvania Avenue near the corner of West Second Avenue.  The proposal would combine two parcels—an undeveloped single-family or duplex lot, and a lot containing an eight-unit townhouse—and build two additional three-story buildings containing eight housing units, resulting in a complex with a total of 16 units. […]

As it did in 2015, the Wheeler Dog Park will close for the winter months. Recreation and Parks had hoped that partitioning the park and keeping only one side open at a time would allow the closed side to recover from happy, active dog feet. Unfortunately the rainy spring made it hard to get good […]