Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Glendale, WI

Glendale is a city in Milwaukee County directly north of Milwaukee, part of the Milwaukee metropolitan area's North Shore, with the motto 'Rich Past, Bright Future.'

Glendale incorporated as a city on December 28, 1950, from portions of the old Town of Milwaukee, and its population roughly tripled during the 1950s as postwar suburban growth and the construction of Interstate 43 transformed it.

Glendale had a population of 13,357 at the 2020 census, and the census counted 6,064 households and 6,462 housing units in the city.

Unlike most North Shore suburbs, Glendale mixes industry and commerce with its residential neighborhoods, including a historic industrial corridor along Capitol Drive.

Bayshore Town Center, which opened as Bayshore Mall in 1954 on Glendale's eastern border, remains one of the Milwaukee area's major shopping destinations and has undergone a multimillion-dollar renovation.

Nicolet High School is located in Glendale and serves students from Glendale, Fox Point, Bayside, and River Hills, while younger students attend the Glendale-River Hills School District.

Some of Glendale's earliest landmarks are in Kletzsch Park, where Woodland-period Native American effigy and burial mounds survive — many others in the area were destroyed by farming between 1850 and 1920.

One of Glendale's first settlements was Good Hope, a prosperous stagecoach stop on Green Bay Road in the late 1840s with a tavern, a school, and a railroad station.

Cardinal Stritch University built its campus straddling Glendale and neighboring Fox Point in 1959, and the 1872 Town of Milwaukee Town Hall in Glendale is now preserved as a museum.

Glendale is home to Sprecher Brewery, one of Wisconsin's best-known craft breweries, and to a major Johnson Controls campus.