In another sign of Madison’s insatiable housing market, a developer is proposing a 12-story project with 363 apartments and rooftop pool directly across the Southwest Commuter Path and railroad tracks from the Kohl Center.
The Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras is proposing a striking design of glass and curving roofs inspired by the contours of a cello for its $29 million music center on the site of the now-closed Avenue Club and Bubble Up Bar on the Near East Side.
The Wisconsin Historical Society has chosen a renowned exhibit designer for its proposed $120 million museum to be built at the top of State Street. The Historical Society has selected Ralph Appelbaum Associates, an award-winning firm based in New York City, to design exhibits for the four-story, 100,000-square-foot museum, which will rise on the site of the existing, undersized museum at 30 N. Carroll St. and adjacent properties owned by Fred and Mary Mohs at 20 and 22 N. Carroll St.
Citing costs, a developer is dropping a proposed 12-story project for a lower-scale plan that would still demolish the Coliseum Bar but now leave the historic Wonder Bar next door at its current location on a site near Alliant Energy Center.
St. John’s Lutheran Church has refined plans for a roughly $35 million redevelopment of its Downtown property with a design that will feature stained glass on part of the first floor and prominent vertical columns defining nine stories of housing above.
In the last year, a group of local employers and contributors has raised nearly $12 million to help developers include low-cost units for poor, working residents in new housing projects in Dane County.
Dane County and the cities of Madison and Verona are proposing to pay $2.7 million for land in a rapidly developing area west of Madison that could eventually provide a missing link in the popular Ice Age Trail.
The city’s Downtown is closer to getting a long-awaited hotel. The developer of the project announced Monday that it has purchased the site at Judge Doyle Square and has secured financing for a 262-room Embassy Suites by Hilton.
Dubbed Oliv Madison, the 386-unit luxury student apartment fronting the 300 block of State Street would include 112 beds at a discounted rate for low-income UW-Madison students.
The blueprint to keep South Madison thriving is making its way through city committees following several public presentations this fall. The South Madison Plan includes redevelopment and street improvements in the area of Madison between Wingra Creek and the Beltline, and would invest millions of dollars into community wealth-building and helping people stay in their current neighborhoods.
