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Development News for the Weeks of: 1/18/2014 - 1/24/2014    

 

CITY COMMITTEE WANTS TO KEEP MUNICIPAL BUILDING IN CIVIC USE

 

The Judge Doyle Square Committee's recommendation can be seen as a blow to one of two developers seeking to team with the city on a massive redevelopment project with a hotel to serve Monona Terrace on blocks that host the landmark and aging Government East parking garage.

-Wisconsin State Journal 

 

DEVELOPER PROPOSING ANOTHER BIG DOWNTOWN HOUSING PROJECT 

 

Les Oriz wants to build 12-story apartment building on the 400 block of West Johnson Street.

-Wisconsin State Journal  

 

CITY PANEL WANTS GORMAN AND UW HEALTH TO REDO UNION CORNERS PLAN 

 

The Urban Design Commission urges a return to an earlier layout which showed less parking and more "green" features. 

-The Cap Times 

 

WALNUT GROVE ON MADISON'S WEST SIDE GETS A TOTAL MAKEOVER 

 

Flad Development has replaced the University Avenue strip mall with a $14 million mixed-use project featuring 100 new apartment units.

-The Cap Times 

 

UNION CORNERS SITE PLAN CHANGES GET COOL NEIGHBORHOOD RECEPTION 

 

Issues being raised include the amount of surface parking for the clinic that will anchor the project, the size of the apartment buildings and the lack of significant green space.

-The Cap Times

 

FREE LOCAL CONFERENCE OFFERS HOMEOWNERS REMODELING IDEAS THIS WEEKEND 

 

The 24th Annual Remodeling Expo is Friday-Sunday at the Marriott Madison West Conference Center in Middleton.

-Wisconsin State Journal 

 

M3 INSURANCE LOOKS TO BUILD NEW HEADQUARTERS ON LAKE MONONA 

 

The space is to be bigger, more open and more collaborative. 

-Wisconsin State Journal

 

WILLY STREET'S GATEWAY TREE 400 PETALS, MAY BREAK GROUND IN SPRING 

 

Metal sculptor Erika Koivunen is more than a year into an art project that will result in a 32-foot tree near Machinery Row.

-Wisconsin State Journal 

 

Around the State and Points Elsewhere  

ADDITIONAL $7 MILLION TAB TO FIX COURTHOUSE DRAWS SKEPTICISM 

 

Milwaukee County could spend $7 million more on courthouse repairs - with no guarantee insurance will cover it. 

-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
 

SUPERVISORS ORDER LAWSUIT TO ALLOW COUTURE HIGH RISE AT TRANSIT CENTER SITE 

 

A County Board panel voted Thursday to order a lawsuit filed to settle a boundary dispute that is holding up development of the Transit Center for a 44-story high rise.

-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel    

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