STATE GETS $160M FROM FEDS, OR $86 M LESS THAN SOUGHT, TO UPGRADE I-94 NEAR FOXCONN SITE
The state is getting $160 million in federal funds - though $86 million less than it requested - to expand U.S. Interstate 94 south of Milwaukee to aid plans for electronics maker Foxconn to locate in Wisconsin
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"It is walkable. That is tremendous," Madison Ald. Sherri Carter said of the south-side campus for Madison Area Technical College that soon will take shape on the southeast corner of South Park Street and Badger Road.
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Promega Corp., a Fitchburg biotechnology company that provides products for scientific research and DNA identification worldwide, is planning another big, new building on its growing campus: a 270,000-square-foot research and development center on East Cheryl Parkway, just east of the company's Feynman Center.
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The Fitchburg City Council approved the creation of a tax incremental financing district Tuesday to provide public financing for a proposed $190 million Promega Corp. expansion.
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The newest ride at Noah's Ark stands six stories tall, is 335 feet long and allows riders on inner tubes to reach speeds up to 32 mph as they plunge down a 37-foot drop near the ride's end.
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The city of Madison is looking to hire outside legal counsel to assist in its defense of a lawsuit filed by the developer involved in the Judge Doyle Square project.
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Even with legal questions about the future of the downtown project, Madison is moving forward to refine designs for the Judge Doyle Square project.
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The original designs for Judge Doyle Square
sailed through the Madison Plan Commission in April 2017. During that meeting, commission chair Ken Opin said that while he believed the project was "the largest single application that has ever been before the Plan Commission," he considered it "a truly elegant solution to a truly complex set of problems."
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The Madison Plan Commission on Monday voted in favor of a mixed-use development in the 700 block of East Johnson Street, despite the objections of the local neighborhood association and the area's representative on the City Council.
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Madison's Finance Committee on Monday recommended $2.6 million in tax increment financing to fund a parking garage as part of Exact Sciences Corporation's office headquarters and innovation laboratory in University Research Park on the city's west side.
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The Dane County Board will share plans and seek input for the Alliant Energy Center redevelopment at an open house next Tuesday.
Residents can learn about the current uses and potential changes of the Alliant Center and share their thoughts on the project from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. June 19 at the Exhibition Hall's upstairs lounge.
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