CITIZENS WEIGH IN ON CREAMERY EXPANSION
The Shullsburg Creamery expansion plans were supported by the Shullsburg City Council and a crowd of 22 citizens at the council meeting April 4. Shullsburg Creamery plans to expand its plant in downtown Shullsburg to accommodate making small amounts of specialty cheeses while providing a viewing area as a public attraction. The project could add 4-5 employees and utilize the current staff better.
EMPTY DOWNTOWN BELOIT BUILDING AT CENTER OF REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT
Downtown Beloit might be getting a $7.3 million facelift. The Hendrick's Development Corporation wants to tear down the former Wagner's Office Supply building in the 400 block of East Grand Avenue. It would be replaced with a four-story multi-purpose building with space for retail, offices and apartments.
JUDGE ASKED TO RESUME COSTLY CLEANUP OF FOX RIVER
Federal prosecutors will ask a judge Thursday to restart the cleanup of contaminated sediment from the Fox River in Brown County, a project that could cost more than $1 billion.
GRAND PLAN FOR THE ARTS IN RICHLAND CENTER
The price tag was less than a cup of coffee, but the real cost is significantly more. The return on the investment, however, could be priceless for this city's downtown. Six years after the Richland County Performing Arts Council handed $1 to the city to purchase the blighted Richland Center City Auditorium.
The Milwaukee Common Council on Wednesday is to consider a resolution that would give aldermen more power to get the city Redevelopment Authority board to consider buying or selling properties, or taking other actions. The resolution, sponsored by Ald. Bob Bauman, was recommended for approval by the council's Zoning, Neighborhoods and Development Committee on a 4-0 vote.
A panel discussion on new construction in historic districts will be hosted Wednesday by Historic Milwaukee, Inc.The event is sponsored by Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren at the firm's offices at 1000 N. Water St., Suite 1700. It begins at 6 p.m., with a meet and greet, followed by a discussion that starts at 7 p.m.
GERMANTOWN CHANGES ZONING TO ALLOW MIXED USES
New zoning for about 25 acres of the 254-acre Blackstone Creek development area, in Germantown, has been approved by the Village Board. The new zoning will allow Tarantino & Co. to develop restaurants, medical offices and other commercial uses in the area north of the Mequon and Division roads intersection, says an article at GermantownNow.com by reporter Danielle Switalski.
WISCONSIN PUBLIC NATIONAL PARK IS A TRIBAL FIRST
In a first for the U.S., the Red Cliff Chippewa is creating Frog Bay Tribal National Park on nearly 89 acres of its reservation and opening the lakeshore property and its views of the Apostle Islands to the public. The park's canopy of old towering trees - hemlock, white pine, white spruce, balsam fir, yellow birch and white cedar - marks a healthy and diverse boreal forest community, uncommon in Wisconsin even before settlement, Red Cliff Natural Resources Administrator Chad Abel said. "This is a rare gem," Abel said.