News & Notes
Yesterday I signed up for my first rock climbing competition. After watching my daughter compete for the past year I decided it would be fun to climb with her rather than just watch.

Oh the places you will go! Two years ago I had never rock climbed before and now I am signed up for an event.

Have a great week!

 Joe
Development News for the Week of: 1/5/2013 - 1/11/2013   
METCALFE'S MARKET GRAND OPENING SATURDAY FOR FORMER CUB FOODS STORE

A year to the date after starting a renovation, Metcalfe's Market will celebrate its grand opening Saturday in what for years had been a Cub Foods store on the Far West Side.
-Wisconsin State Journal 

CAN MADISON SPOTLIGHT ITS URBAN PROBLEMS WITHOUT TARNISHING ITS IMAGE?

How does the city effectively focus on urban woes without communicating a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy of creeping decline?

-The Cap Times

MATC PRESIDENT BETTSEY BARHORST RETIRING

Madison Area Technical College president Bettsey Barhorst announced she is retiring and will leave once a successor is named later this year.

-Wisconsin State Journal 

SOGLIN, OTHERS HAIL MADISON'S NEW OPEN DATA POLICY

Mayor Paul Soglin and others on Tuesday offered a glimpse at the potential of the city's new open data policy, which is making most data held by city agencies on crime statistics, buses, property transactions and other subjects available to the public for free through a single web page.

-Wisconsin State Journal   
 
STUDY CALLS FOR NEW HOTEL WITH UP TO 500 ROOMS IN DOWNTOWN MADISON

A new study says Madison must build a new hotel with 400 to 500 rooms plus "substantial" meeting space to support Monona Terrace.

-Wisconsin State Journal  
 
MODERN HOME TOURS TO OFFER FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND INSIDE PEEK INTO CONTEMPORARY HOMES IN MADISON

Tour organizers expect to feature seven to nine Madison homes on a self-guided tour featuring Q&As with owners and architects.

-Wisconsin State Journal 

DANE COUNTY FINISHES YEAR WITH LOWEST FORECLOSURE FILINGS SINCE 2008 

Dane County foreclosure filings were down 54 percent compared with December 2011, and down 4 percent annually.

-Wisconsin State Journal 

ADVOCATES FOR HOMELESS PROPOSE BUYING NORTH SIDE BUILDING FOR LOW-COST HOUSING

Occupy Madison, which has morphed into a voice for the homeless, is trying to buy an office building that would be renovated to provide housing for 20 to 25 people.

-Wisconsin State Journal   
 
MADISON CITY COUNCIL APPROVES TWO MIXED-USE PROJECTS

Council members granted approval for two mixed-use developments Tuesday, including one at the site formerly occupied by Lane's Bakery.

-Wisconsin State Journal 

 AROUND TOWN: HOPES, DREAMS AND PINTEREST PARTIES

The canvases serve as colorful reminders of things their creators hope to accomplish.
-Wisconsin State Journal 

 

  

  
   

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Around the State and Points Elsewhere  
 
KALAHARI PLANNING WATER PARK RESORT IN POCONO MOUNTAINS

The Wisconsin Dells indoor water park resort company on Thursday announced plans for a $350 million resort in Pocono Manor, Pa.
-Wisconsin State Journal

UWM TOSA SITE LANDS BIG PROJECT

Four years of work on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's satellite campus has led to an announcement of the first privately financed development at the Wauwatosa site.
-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Zilber Property Group, which would develop ABB Inc.'s new office building proposed for Innovation Campus, is seeking financing assistance from the City of Wauwatosa.
-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

MMSD ORDERED TO PROVIDE 'GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE' FOR STORM WATER

The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District has been given the nation's first wastewater discharge permit mandating "green infrastructure" to collect and absorb storm water.
-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

 SCHILTZ PARK LANDS TWO NEW OFFICE TENANTS

Schlitz Park business park, just north of downtown, has landed two new office tenants, it was announced Friday.

-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

 STUDY LOOKS AT ESCHWEILER SITE FINANCING

The renovation of five historic buildings at the Innovation Campus development in Wauwatosa into apartments would require a higher level of public financing than the developer's plan to preserve just one building, according to a new study commissioned by the city.

-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

 NEW BERLIN SAYS 'NO' TO PROPOSED APARTMENTS

A proposal to develop a 75-unit apartment building in New Berlin's City Center area has been rejected by the city Plan Commission.

-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

 PROPOSED APARTMENTS, RETAIL SPACE IN MEQUON WIN INITIAL APPROVAL

 

A proposal to develop 40 apartments in Mequon, along with space for restaurants and shops, won preliminary zoning approval Monday night from the city Plan Commission.

-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

APARTMENTS FOR DOWNTOWN WAREHOUSE WIN PLAN COMMISSION APPROVAL 

A proposal to convert a downtown warehouse into 65 apartments for lower income renters received preliminary zoning approval Monday from the Milwaukee Plan Commission.

-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel


 
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