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Development News for the Week of: 5/11/2013 - 5/17/2013   

TAVERN CULTURE: MEETING AT NEIGHBORHOOD BAR IS RICH WISCONSIN TRADITION 

 

The relatively watery lagers of old may have given way to pricey craft brews, but the legacy of the old-time tavern, where people gather to hoist a few with friends, lives on.

-The Cap Times

 

ENERPAC BREAKS GROUND ON MANUFACTURING PLANT IN COLUMBUS 

 

The project will include room for more development in the city's new business park.

-Wisconsin State Journal 

  

APRIL HOME SALES SURGE 31 PERCENT IN COUNTY

The year-over-year rise in April marked the 22nd straight month of increased sales.

-Wisconsin State Journal

 

NEW ORDINANCE WOULD ALLOW PAINTING OF PUBLIC STREETSĀ 

 

Streets don't necessarily have to be black or shades of gray. Or so says an ordinance proposed by Near East Side Ald. Marsha Rummel.

-Wisconsin State Journal

CITY OF VERONA: COMMISSION CHALLENGES WALL, APARTMENTS 

 

A month ago, the city's Plan Commission sent away an architect working for developer Terrence Wall with concerns about how his 40-unit apartment building plan would fit into the grand scheme of the rapidly aging plan for the West End.

-The Verona Press
 

In less than four months, the Madison Area Youth Soccer Association expects to open a small sports medicine facility and a well-appointed synthetic turf soccer field at Reddan Soccer Park.

-The Verona Press 

 

 

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Around the State and Points Elsewhere  
       

VIDEO: DAYKIN DISCUSSES PARK EAST MARKETING CAMPAIGN

 

A long-awaited marketing campaign is about to launch in an attempt to draw developer attention to the vacant tracts of the Park East strip.

-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel   

APARTMENT EXPANSION PLANNED FOR OAK CREEK

 

Southfield Apartments, in Oak Creek, is planning to eventually add 56 units under a proposal that was reviewed this week by the city Plan Commission.

-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel      

MILWAUKEE DEVELOPER PITCHES RIVERFRONT APARTMENTS IN APPLETON

A former riverfront dairy would be transformed into a 180-unit apartment complex in Appleton under plans announced by a Milwaukee developer, the Post Crescent reports.
-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel    

WALMART, SAM'S CLUB STORES PROPOSED FOR PABST FARMS IN OCONOMOWOC 


A Walmart supermarket and discount store and Sam's Club store are being proposed for Oconomowoc's Pabst Farms site, where city officials had once hoped to see a regional mall developed.

-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

 

SCHLITZ PARK SEEKS MEDC LOAN FOR NEW TENANT WITH 260 JOBS

The owner of Schlitz Park business park is seeking a $900,000 loan from a city affiliate to help finance improvements for a new tenant that would bring 260 jobs to Milwaukee.

-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

 

MIDTOWN REDEVELOPMENT FUND TO ADD $1.5 MILLION FOR STREET WORK

A proposed $3.5 million city fund to help attract new retailers to Midtown Center, on Milwaukee's north side, will be expanded to include $1.5 million to pay for nearby street repairs, a Department of City Development official said Tuesday.

-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
 
 ALD. BAUMAN: AVENUES WEST GETS 'UNDIES IN A BUNDLE'

Avenues West Association Inc., a nonprofit business improvement group which operates in the neighborhood near Marquette University, has again drawn the ire of Ald. Bob Bauman, whose district includes that area.

-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

 
LIED'S REDEVELOPMENT PROPOSED

The concept for a proposal to redevelop the site of the former Leid's Nursery Co. at Highway 74 (Main Street) and Town Line Road into a commercial and industrial park was presented to the town Plan Commission last week, the first step in what could be a long, complex and controversial approval process involving at least three municipalities.

-LivingLakeCounty.com

 

PRESERVATION PLAN FOR ESCHWEILER BUILDING WINS OK IN WAUWATOSA

A proposal to preserve some historic buildings in Wauwatosa by converting them into a charter school, with the nearby grounds set aside for construction of nearly 200 apartments, has won approval from the city Historic Preservation Commission.

-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  
 
   
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