The transformation of the East Washington Avenue corridor rolls on.Developer Curt Brink is proposing a 13-story next phase of his Archipelago Village that's rising across the street from Breese Stevens Field on the 900 block of the thoroughfare.
Construction on a five-story boutique hotel on the 900 block of East Washington Avenue is underway, and now developer Curt Brink is proposing to build a 13-story office building next door. It's the latest towering building on the busy traffic corridor, but it falls within zoning limits and the city's vision for the area.
A former sports bar along North Stoughton Road would be razed for a more than 40,0000-square-foot, four-story mixed use building targeted at students of nearby Madison Area Technical College, according to plans submitted to the city.
To accommodate an expected growth in enrollment and address capital needs, the Monona Grove School District is asking residents to back a $57 million referendum on the ballot next month.
A 600-stall garage could replace one of the last large surface lots on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and add needed visitor parking spaces under a proposal from the university.
For those who haven't visited downtown Middleton in a while, it may be a bit busier than they remember. "We used to have kind of a quaint downtown," said Middleton resident Roshelle Ritzenthaler. "Some aging buildings, more 'cottagey.'"
Making streets more welcoming for people who bike or walk doesn't just make them safer. It's also good for business. Just ask Henry Schwartz, who opened MobCraft Beer Inc.'s brewery and tap room two years ago in Milwaukee's Walker's Point neighborhood.
A program to help draw commercial development to central city neighborhoods near downtown Milwaukee is getting $3.5 million from one of the nation's largest banks.
The developer of a controversial high-rise pitched in Milwaukee's North Shore area is being asked by local officials to consider possible changes to that proposal.
Two new apartment developments, totaling nearly 500 units, are being proposed for Oak Creek - where one other large apartment community won approval this summer.
