Park Towne News and Notes

News & Notes

All is quiet on the development front in Madison.

Have a great week!

Joe

Development News for the Week of: 6/15/2013 - 6/21/2013

DANE COUNTY'S MAY ACCEPTED OFFERS SUGGEST ANOTHER BIG MONTH FOR HOME SALES IN JUNE

Pending sales of condos were up 20% at the end of May, while single-family homes were up 32%, compared to May 2012's pending tally.

-Wisconsin State Journal

WISCONSIN HOME SALES UP 18.2% IN MAY, AS PACE OF SALES GROWTH ACCELERATES

From January through April, the year-over-year increase was only 10.3 percent.

-Wisconsin State Journal

NEW NEIGHBORHOOD TO INCLUDE UPSCALE HOMES, NOT APARTMENTS

A steering committee formulating plans for a 365-acre North Stoner Prairie Neighborhood declined to include mixed-use development or affordable housing in favor of more upscale single-family homes.The committee opted for single-family houses east of Seminole Highway

-Channel3000.com

News&Notes archives are located at http://parktowne.com/news. Thanks!

Around the State and Points Elsewhere

HOTEL APPROVED FOR INNOVATION CAMPUS, BUT WITH WAGE REQUIREMENTS

A proposed extended-stay hotel at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Innovation Campus development in Wauwatosa received approval Thursday from the County Board--but with a wage requirement that some supervisors said could kill the project.

-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

PLEASANT PRAIRIE APPROVES PLAN TO ENCOURAGE MORE OFFICES, MANUFACTURING BUILDINGS

A new zoning district to encourage more office and manufacturing buildings near LakeView Corporate Park has been approved in Pleasant Prairie.

-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

HOUSING REBOUND KEY TO ECONOMIC RECOVERY, JP MORGAN EXECUTIVE SAYS

The housing rebound is key to broadening the economic recovery, and it appears the residential real estate market is positioned to keep growing, a JP Morgan Funds executive said Wednesday.

-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

SENIOR APARTMENTS PROPOSED FOR SHOREWOOD

A new apartment community for older residents is being proposed for Shorewood. Harbor Retirement Associates would develop both assisted living and memory care apartments on a 3.2-acre site on the south side of E. Capitol Drive, between the Milwaukee River and the biking trail overpass, Village Manager Chris Swartz said Tuesday.

-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

ARCHITECTS, OTHERS MEET TO SPARK IDEAS FOR KING DRIVE DEVELOPMENTS

A group of architects, developers, property owners and city officials is meeting Tuesday in an effort to create ideas for new development in Milwaukee's King Drive area.

-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

VIDEO: TOM DAYKIN DISCUSSES PROPOSED NEW SITE FOR THE COUTURE

An organization called "Preserve Our Parks" is proposing an idea that would shift the planned Couture tower from its current place at the transit center to a location further south.

-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

ANTI-WALMART PROTESTERS PACK OCONOMOWOC CITY HALL MEETING

About 80 to 90 people packed into the Oconomowoc Common Council chambers Tuesday night to express their dissatisfaction with a plan to build a Walmart Super Center and Sam's Club at Pabst Farms Town Centre.

-Livinglakecountry.com