News & Notes
News and Notes for the Week of 11/13/21 - 11/19/21
A new form of affordable housing for university students is moving forward after the City Council approved an agreement with the developer earlier this week. Now Oliv Madison, a proposed building from student housing developer Core Spaces, will go before the Plan Commission on Nov. 22.
-The Cap Times
Dane County Executive Joe Parisi called on the County Board to move forward with the county jail renovation project Wednesday after failing to add $23 million for the project to the 2022 budget last week. The county considered adding more funds to the major jail renovation in October after disruptions in the supply chain caused by the pandemic grew the estimated cost of the project to $170 million.
-The Cap Times
Dane County Executive Joe Parisi on Wednesday put numbers to new “hybrid” options for a looming jail expansion and consolidation project that could satisfy some concerns over capacity while keeping the project within its $148 million budget.
-Wisconsin State Journal
After a rebuff, a developer has submitted new concepts for a scaled-back, 12-story housing and commercial project near the Alliant Energy Center that razes the Coliseum Bar and Banquet but saves and relocates the historic Wonder Bar steakhouse.
-Wisconsin State Journal
Plans to convert a hotel to low-income housing have been derailed, at least for now, by the building's current use as a site to temporarily shelter homeless people.
-Wisconsin State Journal
Pipes, lengths of steel and other materials are no longer stored outside. There are massive dedicated spaces with overhead cranes, welding stations and plasma cutters for custom metal fabrication, plumbing and sheet metal work. One room of the more than 207,000-square-foot fabrication facility is 60 feet wide and 300 feet long, fully enclosed and is solely for stainless steel pipe work to avoid cross contamination for products that can be used in laboratories and food-grade machines.
-Wisconsin State Journal