News & Notes
News and Notes for the Week of 2/22/21 - 2/26/21
A developer is proposing to replace the Washington Plaza shopping center with a seven-story, mixed-use project with housing and commercial space at the corner of North First Street and East Washington Avenue on the East Side.
-Wisconsin State Journal
After six years, Madison is moving to sell the first of 45 vacant building lots it acquired to revive a failed residential development in an isolated, lower-income neighborhood with a lot of children on the Southeast Side.
-Wisconsin State Journal
A development team is offering detailed plans with offices, housing, retail and parking for the next phase of the massive Madison Yards redevelopment on the West Side.
-Wisconsin State Journal
A nearly 172-acre swath of land, much of it West Towne, could someday be a mix of housing, office buildings, bike paths, sidewalks and parks, all adjacent to a bus rapid transit line. Acres of surface parking would largely vanish, and Odana Road could be extended due west and dissect the mall to help improve access and create more of a town feel to the property. One phase envisions the removal of the center of the mall and replacing it with a park.
-Wisconsin State Journal
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers wants to spend about $2.4 billion over the next two years on state building projects, with about $1 billion of the proposed money going to the University of Wisconsin System.
-Wisconsin State Journal
A large apartment and grocery store development on South Park Street spearheaded by entrepreneurs of color received final sign-off Tuesday from the Madison City Council.
-Wisconsin State Journal
It could take Dane County about 26 years to fill the supply gap for renters paying more than half of their income on housing. That estimate, according to 2019 data, does not include the units needed for an estimated 40,000 incoming households to Dane County — of which 8,000 will earn less than the median income — or those that become unaffordable over time.
-The Cap Times
Occupy Madison Inc., the nonprofit organization behind a movement to offer small, portable houses to homeless people, is seeking zoning changes that would allow a 22-home tiny house village to be permanently located at 1901 Aberg Ave.
-The Cap Times