News & Notes
News and Notes for the Week of 8/28/21 - 9/3/21
In what could be a model, a developer and a social services provider are proposing a $23.4 million conversion of the Madison Plaza hotel near East Towne to lower-cost housing, including some units targeted to those with extremely low incomes.
-Wisconsin State Journal
Steve Brown Apartments, which owns 57 properties in the Madison area, submitted a proposal Tuesday to the city to transform the four-story, 48-room boutique hotel built on a half-acre at 1501 Monroe St. on the Near West Side into 50 apartments and about 3,000 square feet of commercial space.
-Wisconsin State Journal
Downtown and the Far East and Far West sides led Madison's continuing growth in the past decade, with the North, Near West, West and Southwest sides seeing only slight increases in population, according to just-released census data.
-Wisconsin State Journal
Two development projects are in the works that will bring state-of-the-art buildings to Madison’s west side.The Plan Commission this week approved a mixed-use development to be located in UW Research Park on Madison’s west side near Midvale Heights. The development was unanimously approved during the consent agenda portion of Plan Commission’s meeting and did not face any public opposition or scrutiny.
-The Cap Times
Oliv Madison, a 10-story development that would bring student housing to the State Street area, goes before the Urban Design Commission on Wednesday to seek final approval of its design.
-The Cap Times
Madison’s City Council paved the way for people to sleep and live outside in mission camps by approving a new zoning district Tuesday. 

The council also approved, in separate proposals, a more streamlined process for creating tiny house villages — like the ones operated by Occupy Madison — and allowing for additional temporary encampments.
-The Cap Timesxt Link