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 Joe
Development News for the Week of: 8/17/2013 - 8/23/2013   

CONTROVERSY ARISES OVER SHERMAN AVENUE'S NEW BIKE LANES 

 

Sherman Avenue's new two-lane configuration has received mixed reviews among North Side residents and business owners.

-Wisconsin State Journal 

 

LOCAL VICTORIAN STYLE HOUSE FACES DEMOLITION UNLESS MOVED 

 

Gallina Companies is offering a Queen Anne Victorian-style house for free at 1022 Mound Street near Meriter Hospital, but the house needs to be moved to a new location.

-Wisconsin State Journal  

 

 

Owners of properties on the 900 block of East Washington Avenue will seek permission to demolish buildings for redevelopment.

-Wisconsin State Journal 

 

MADISON EXTENDS BUS SERVICE TO OWL CREEK, GRANDVIEW COMMONS NEIGHBORHOODS 

 

Metro Transit will now serve isolated Owl Creek neighborhood and growing Grandview Commons area.

-Wisconsin State Journal 

 

HILLDALE TO GET MORE AIR UNDER $15 MILLION REDEVELOPMENT PLAN 

 

The proposal will further open up the West Side shopping center with two more pedestrian malls between Macy's and Metcalfe's Market.

-Wisconsin State Journal

 

MADISON AIMS TO REGULATE SHORT-TERM RENTALS AS BUSINESS SETS SIGHT ON FOOTBALL WEEKENDS 

 

City Council members want new rules to legalize and control the growing, potentially lucrative practice.
-Wisconsin State Journal   

 

WISCONSIN HOME SALES UP 17% IN JULY PEAK OF SEASON, FOR 2-PLUS YEARS OF GROWTH 

 

The south-central region including Dane County was up 19.4 percent for year-over-year sales, with a 9.1% rise in median price. 

-Wisconsin State Journal

 

LATEST PLAN KEEPS HISTORIC STEENSLAND HOUSE ON SAME DOWNTOWN BLOCK 

 

Historic preservationists like the option better than moving it off site. 

-Wisconsin State Journal

 

LARGE SUBDIVISION EYED NEXT TO MIDDLETON'S PLEASANT VIEW GOLF COURSE 

 

Erdman Real Estate Holdings bills project as "new ruralism" combining a working organic farm with 104 country home sites.

-The Cap Times 

 

 

The long-awaited high-rise, a key part of the redevelopment of the East Washington corridor, has proven an easy sell: all of the apartments were rented before the building opened on Aug. 1.

-The Cap Times 

 

 
Around the State and Points Elsewhere  
 
WATER BUSINESS PARK PROCEEDS DESPITE TAX CREDIT LOSS

Work on a Milwaukee business park for water technology companies is proceeding despite the loss of a potential federal financing source.
-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel     

BROWN DEER OKS EXPANSION OF BRADLEY CROSSING

The village of Brown Deer has agreed to contribute $150,000 to help advance the second phase of the Bradley Crossing Supportive Housing Community, which will include the addition of 54 affordable rental units.
-Browndeernow.com
 
TOWN OF DELAFIELD MULLS REGULATING RENTERS

Town officials will consider adopting an ordinance regulating the rental of residential properties after hearing complaints from neighbors about summer renters at a Pewaukee Lake home on Elmhurst Drive.

-Livinglakecountry.com

 

NEW APARTMENTS AT PABST WIN APPROVAL 

 

The Milwaukee Plan Commission approved a proposal Monday to develop a 100-unit high-end apartment building at the former Pabst brewery.

-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 

  

SOLARIS SEEKS MEDC LOAN FOR MENOMONEE VALLEY FACTORY 

 

A company that makes medical compression garments is seeking a $2.1 million loan from a nonprofit business lender to help fund its new factory proposed for Milwaukee's Menomonee Valley Industrial Center.

-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

 

MSOE WANTS MORE TIME TO COMPLETE STAYBRIDGE PURCHASE 

 

Milwaukee School of Engineering is seeking more time to complete its purchase of the partly completed downtown Staybridge Hotel, which it plans to convert into student housing.

 -Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

 

VIDEO: TOM DAYKIN DISCUSSES THE INNER HARBOR 

 

The area around the Port of Milwaukee, also known as the Inner Harbor. Bordered roughly by 1st Street, National Ave. and the Kinnickinnic river, it could see a redevelopment similar to what has happened in the Menomonee Valley.

-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

 

  
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