News & Notes
News and Notes for the Week of 10/23/21 - 10/29/21
Seeking to create more housing options, Mayor Satya Rhodes Conway and three City Council members are proposing to make it easier to build backyard cottages or “granny flats” on properties with owner-occupied, single-family homes.
-Wisconsin State Journal
A California-based pharmaceutical company, which makes genetic treatments for hard-to-treat diseases, is planning to build a manufacturing campus costing up to $250 million in Verona starting this winter.
-Wisconsin State Journal
When George Smith looked at the area between the main UW-Madison campus and the hospitals on the city’s Near West Side, he saw a “dead zone.” But Smith, a real estate consultant who works with universities across the U.S., saw something else, too. An opportunity.
-Wisconsin State Journal
Madison and Milwaukee will be critical markets in any high-speed passenger rail corridor between Chicago and the Twin Cities should the project go forward, a new federal study says.
-Wisconsin State Journal