News & Notes
News and Notes for the Week of 2/27/21 - 3/5/21
A developer is proposing to demolish an auto repair shop for a $22 million, six-story mixed-use project including lower-cost housing on the Near West Side. MSP Real Estate of Mendota Heights, Minnesota, is looking to raze the Don the Car Care Man auto repair shop and replace it with a building offering 79 apartments, 750 square feet of first-floor commercial space and underground parking for 79 cars and 87 bicycles on a narrow, half-acre lot at 2208 University Ave.
-Wisconsin State Journal
Madison Metro Transit is preparing for its biggest changes in perhaps a quarter-century to cut travel times, boost ridership, better serve disadvantaged communities, add evening and weekend service, and complement a coming $160 million east-west bus rapid transit route.
-Wisconsin State Journal
A conservative law group is challenging a new Madison ordinance requiring “bird-safe” glass in new construction. The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL) filed a notice Wednesday on behalf of four real estate, development and construction organizations warning the city that the ordinance runs afoul of state law and is unenforceable.
-Wisconsin State Journal
The evolution of Parmenter Street could be taking another significant step, thanks to one of its oldest businesses. The Bruce Company, known for its landscaping services and robust garden center, has presented plans to the Middleton Plan Commission for a 16-acre project that would construct a new retail store, greenhouse and corporate headquarters and move its field operations to Verona, freeing up acres of land for redevelopment.
-Wisconsin State Journal
For more than two years, friends and business partners Kaba Bah and Jerreh Kujabi have shared a vision of offering affordable, culturally relevant groceries on Madison's East Side, particularly for West African immigrants like themselves. Now, the duo is the closest they've been to realizing the dream in one of the unlikeliest buildings where one would expect to find fresh produce and specialty grocery items — the former Visions strip club.
-Wisconsin State Journal
With the Board of Supervisors’ approval of more than $4.3 million Thursday, Dane County can expect to see an addition of 314 units of affordable housing spread across four communities.
-The Cap Times