After years of tight levy limits, Gov. Tony Evers' 2019-21 budget proposes to provide more revenue to counties and municipalities and let local governments raise more money.
To address infrastructure, health and safety needs at Madison Metro Transit's existing bus garage on East Washington Avenue, city officials are considering the purchase of land and two buildings on the former Oscar Mayer site for future Metro facility needs.
Madison may soon pursue negotiations with owners of the former Oscar Mayer facility on the East Side to buy part of the property for much-needed Metro Transit bus storage.
There's another entrant in the race to create more hotel rooms in Madison. But this time the proposed rooms wouldn't be in the city's Downtown or along the rapidly developing East Washington Avenue corridor.
A higher-end extended stay hotel is being proposed for a Wauwatosa site - the latest in a series of hotels developed near the Milwaukee Regional Medical Complex.
Since 1893, some of the world's biggest construction and mining equipment, including massive steam-operated shovels that dug the Panama Canal, have been built in South Milwaukee.
