News & Notes
News and Notes for the Weeks of 2/19/22 - 3/11/22
Mortenson Development, which took over construction of a nine-story hotel at the roughly $175 million Judge Doyle project Downtown, is now moving to assume the last piece of the multi-phase redevelopment -- an 11-story apartment building.
-Wisconsin State Journal
After considering a far bigger project, then a smaller one, a developer is proposing a 12-story building with 200 apartments, commercial space and parking that would demolish the Coliseum Bar but leave the historic Wonder Bar next door at its current location on a site near the Alliant Energy Center.
-Wisconsin State Journal
Randy Alexander is proposing a 16-story housing tower with 335 units that would deliver some affordability by offering only studio apartments on a narrow lot with views of Lake Monona next to Paisan's Restaurant on West Wilson Street Downtown.
-Wisconsin State Journal
A group of property owners is protesting a plan to rezone farmland on Madison’s North Side for development, saying the noise from F-35 fighter jets coming to Truax Field is incompatible with the planned housing there.
-Wisconsin State Journal
The Madison City Council has rejected for a second time a proposed farmland development on the city’s North Side, siding with neighbors who contend the property isn’t suitable for housing with the coming of noisy F-35 fighter jets to nearby Truax Field.
-Wisconsin State Journal
After over three hours of debating, amending and occasionally heated back and forth, the Dane County Board of Supervisors passed a new resolution putting another $16 million toward the Dane County Jail consolidation project in a 29-7 vote late Thursday night.
-The Cap Times
The largest tract -- more than 1,900 acres -- adjoins the Quincy Bluff and Wetlands State Natural Area, a 6,600-acre preserve just east of Castle Rock Lake.
-Wisconsin State Journal
The council voted 13-7 to approve a $1.72 million operating plan for the proposed $16.1 million Reindahl Imagination Center despite concerns the city may not be able to fund the project in future budgets.
-Wisconsin State Journal
The displacement of longstanding businesses on State Street to make way for modern mixed-use buildings could permanently alter the vibe and look of what is perhaps Madison’s most iconic area.
JD McCormick, a development company, is proposing a 5-story, 26-unit building for the 400 block of State Street that would include a first floor restaurant and a mixture of studio and one-bedroom apartments.
-The Cap Times