After long-held dreams and several years of focused effort, two nonprofits are proposing a multimillion-dollar Madison Youth Arts Center with a big focus on diversity and inclusion as part of a bigger mixed-use project on the booming Near East Side.
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Starting Wednesday, Madison will begin a seven-day offering of so-called "community bonds," sold in increments as small as $500, to generate $2.1 million to help pay for $12 million in improvements at Olbrich Botanical Gardens on the East Side.
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In his final city spending blueprint, Mayor Paul Soglin on Wednesday unveiled a $332 million operating budget for 2019 that he says puts a continued focus on upward economic mobility and safety and adds $72.11 in city taxes to the average home's bill.
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American Family Insurance says it plans to help solve the Madison area's social problems - as well as foster entrepreneurship - in its new building, Spark, on the Near East Side.
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A Madison plant that makes packaging for products ranging from food to medical devices is building a big addition and beefing up its staff. Amcor Flexibles Madison is starting a $25 million investment in its plant at 4101 Lien Road, on the East Side, expanding the building by nearly 50 percent and hauling in a new printing press and a laminator, worth a total of $12 million just for the new equipment.
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The doors won't open until Wednesday on the 218,000-square-foot Mills Fleet Farm store here that is filled with hunting and fishing equipment, farm items, aisles of grocery, clothing, toys, housewares and tires.
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A clustered sports area, more accessible paths and a modern park shelter full of amenities could redefine James Madison Park. For about nine months, public comment and input has been solicited as consultants work on a new master plan for the popular park on the shore of Lake Mendota. A recently finished draft of the plan calls for some major changes to the layout of the Downtown green space.
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A proposed whitewater feature on the Yahara River in Stoughton could draw on a market of more than 400,000 paddlers and could generate millions in business spending from its use, according to an economic impact study of the concept.
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The Public Safety Building's support structures cannot hold the additional floors that had been planned for a Dane County Jail consolidation project, though the concept designs and forms submitted to the city when the facility was built in the 1990s include the expectation that floors would be added.
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