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Development News for the Weeks of: 3/22/2014 - 3/28/2014    

CITY GETS FIRST LOOK AT BUSINESS CONCEPTS FOR PUBLIC MARKET 

 

A consultant's draft report explores opportunities and challenges of building the local food economy.

-Wisconsin State Journal

 

MADISON PUBLIC MARKET STUDY READY FOR PUBLIC REVIEW

 

Consultant's report says a year-round market could attract customers and vendors, but no sites are mentioned.

-The Cap Times

 

KELLER PURSUING ANOTHER BASSETT NEIGHBORHOOD APARTMENT DEVELOPMENT 

 

A $2.5 million, 18-unit mixed use building is slated for the high traffic corner of West Main and Bassett streets.

-The Cap Times

 

NEW SPLASH PARKS IN MADISON GET BOOST FROM RENNEBOHM FOUNDATION 

 

Construction is slated for this spring at Elver and Reindahl parks, with an August opening planned for both facilities.

-The Cap Times

 

MIDDLETON ORDERED TO HALT CONSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC WORKS BUILDING 

 

Trades group contends city didn't use the lowest of the nine companies who bid on the $9 million project.

-Wisconsin State Journal

 

LOCAL FIRST-TIME HOME BUYER EDUCATION CLASSES SEE GRWOING ATTENDANCE 

 

The classes, required for most down-payment assistance programs, come as the number of first-time buyers nationally is at an all-time low.

-Wisconsin State Journal 

 

NEW UW ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS ARE OFF TO A RUNNING START, LEADERS SAY 

 

New directors of four programs spoke to a Madison business networking group on Tuesday.

-Wisconsin State Journal  

 

FOCUS ON DANE COUNTY: INVESTOR GROUP HOPES TO BUILD MONT HOREB HOTEL 

 

After several years of discussion and studies, an investor group is being assembled to finance a roughly $4.8 million hotel with around 50 rooms on the eastern edge of Mount Horeb.

-Wisconsin State Journal   

 

Around the State and Points Elsewhere  

IT'S ALL BULL: ABS GLOBAL NEEDS NEW PUNS - BUT KEEP IT CLEAN 

 

The slogans on the double-sided billboard promote ABS Global and have delighted bored motorists along I-94 for decades 

-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

 

UMM'S MICHAEL LOVELL TAPPED TO LEAD MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY 

 

Lovell, who is expected to be named the next president of Marquette University on Wednesday, will be the first layman to be president in the Jesuit university's 132-year history, replacing Father Scott R. Pilarz, who unexpectedly announced his resignation in September after two years on the job. 

-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

 

 

After years of debate about its fate, the Mary Nohl House will be dismantled and moved piece by piece from its Fox Point neighborhood to a site in Sheboygan County

-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel         
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