Commerce Street is a fun little squiggle at the bottom of the Milwaukee River valley not quite Riverwest (although it mostly is, technically), not quite Brady Street and definitely not Downtown....
East Wauwatosa, from roughly the Menomonee River east to the border with Milwaukee, has grown into a worthy sibling to the Wauwatosa Village, the quaint, down-in-a-dell heart of the near suburb. Thanks to North Avenue, the pulse of East Tosa beats a little quicker. So let us cruise west down that very thoroughfare....
Matt has written for Milwaukee Magazine since 2006, when he was a lowly intern. Since then, he’s held the posts of assistant news editor and, most recently, senior editor. He’s lived in South Carolina, Tennessee, Connecticut, Iowa, and Indiana but mostly in Wisconsin. He wants to do more fishing but has a hard time finding worms. For the magazine, Matt has written about city government, schools, religion, coffee roasters and Congress.
