News & Notes


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Development News for the Weeks of: 4/26/2014 - 5/2/2014    

GORMAN REVISES PLANS FOR UNION CORNERS PROJECT 

 

Developer made changes in response to city, neighborhood concerns

-Wisconsin State Journal

 

UNION CORNERS PLAN GETS TOTAL MAKEOVER 

 

The updated design from Gorman & Co. adds more "new urbanism" to the East Wash and Milwaukee Street project by hiding parking and putting taller buildings along the street.

-The Cap Times

 

MADISON PLAN COMMISSION APPROVES 'TINY HOUSES' 

 

Plan Commission requires many conditions for tiny house workshop and village.

-Wisconsin State Journal  

 

ROYSTER COMMONS APARTMENTS LAND AFFORDABLE HOUSING CREDITS, COULD BREAK GROUND SOON 

 

Developers of the 27-acre former fertilizer plant property on the east side eye 70 units priced for working people with moderate incomes.

-The Cap Times

 

HOW A WEAK HOUSING MARKET IS WEIGHING ON THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY 

 

Investment in residential real estate now makes up a smaller share of the overall economy than at any time since World War II.

-The Cap Times 

 

BASSETT APARTMENT PROJECT WOULD RAZE CIVIL WAR ERA BUILDING 

 

Keller architect Ed Linville admits mixed feelings, but says new mixed-use building is the right use for the site.

-The Cap Times

 

CITY WANTS MORE DEVELOPMENT, TALLER BUILDINGS ON OLD UNIVERSITY 

 

Recommendations for buildings up to eight stories on the north side of the busy corridor run counter to neighborhood planning wishes.

-The Cap Times

 

PROPOSED BADGER COULEE TRANSMISSION LINE PROJECT REAACHES MILESTONE, RISES IN PRICE 

 

State regulators say the application is complete and can now go through a full review.

-Wisconsin State Journal

 

AMERICAN TV MAY OWE MORE THAN REPORTED, RECEIVER SAYS

 

Plans are in the works to sell the Madison West store and two others for $12 million.

-Wisconsin State Journal 

   

Around the State and Points Elsewhere  

2 HIGH-SPEED TRAIN SETS BUILT FOR WISCONSIN SET TO LEAVE 

 

Train-maker Talgo has given the City of Milwaukee notice it is vacating its Century City factory. 

-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel   

 

MMSD PROPOSES NEARLY $140 MILLION FLOOD CONTROL PROJECT 

 

With storage basins and a drainage channel, the project targets a north side Milwaukee area that was ravaged by 2010 flooding. 

-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

 

DOT FIX FOR I-43 CONGESTION: MORE LANES, MORE INTERCHANGES 

 

The public can weigh in at meetings Wednesday and Thursday on the state's plans to expand crumbling I-43 from Silver Spring Drive to Highway 60 in Grafton. 

-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel      
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