Published: February 19, 2010
Tags: Bruce Woods, Burden, Edgewater, Edgewater Hotel, Hammes Co., Madison, Madison Board of Estimates, Madison Common Council, Madison Plan Commission, Madison Urban Design Commission, Mark Clear, redevelopment, University of Wisconsin-Madison
By Paul Snyder
The Madison Common Council will not cast its final vote on the Edgewater Hotel redevelopment Tuesday.
It might happen in March or April, said Alderman Mark Clear, but the project still lacks approvals from the city’s Urban Design Commission, Plan Commission and Board of Estimates, and those approvals will not be obtained by Tuesday.
“There’s [...]
Published: February 2, 2010
Tags: Anderson, Brothers Bar & Grill, condemnation, Cosh, Dane County Circuit Court, eminent domain, Godfrey & Kahn SC, Miller, University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW System, UW System Board of Regents, Wisconsin Department of Justice, Wittenwyler
Comments: 2
By Paul Snyder
Attorneys for a Madison bar say the University of Wisconsin System should not be allowed to bully a smaller neighbor into surrendering to the threat of the use of eminent domain.
“The big issue here is: Does the UW System have the right to wave their wand and say, ‘Yep, some day in the [...]
Published: January 25, 2010
Tags: Division of State, Division of State Facilities, Hursh, Kaufert, Miller, nursing school, Potter Lawson, Robson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW System, UW System Board of Regents, Wisconsin Department of Administration
By Paul Snyder
There’s a catch to the state’s request for architectural/engineering firms interested in designing a university building: The project has not been approved.
The Wisconsin Department of Administration’s Division of State Facilities is accepting consultant questionnaires through Feb. 9 for preliminary design work on an estimated $37.6 million nursing school for the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
For [...]
Body found in search for 2 missing WI snowmobilers
MENASHA, Wis. (AP) — Divers searching for two missing Wisconsin snowmobilers have found a body in Lake Winnebago in Menasha.
Winnebago County Sheriff’s Lt. John Zimmerman confirmed just before 5 p.m. Monday that one body had been found, but declined to say whether it was that of 30-year-old [...]
Published: January 6, 2010
Tags: Brown, Gebhardt, Madison Urban Design Commission, Miller, University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW System, Woods
Comments: 1
By Paul Snyder
A Madison commission member’s caution could unravel a developer’s strategy to build on property targeted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Madison developer Otto Gebhardt III is planning a 10-story, student housing project on the north side of Spring Street in Madison. The property is on a block the university identified in its 20-year plan [...]
Published: January 4, 2010
Tags: Eagon, Gebhardt, Gebhardt Development LLC, height, Madison, Madison Urban Design Commission, neighborhood plan, Regent Street-South Campus Neighborhood, restrictions, story, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Woods
By Paul Snyder
A Madison developer is stuck between a city neighborhood’s height and story limits.
Otto Gebhardt III, principal of Madison-based Gebhardt Development LLC, said two student housing towers he has proposed for the Regent Street-South Campus Neighborhood are within the neighborhood plan’s 116-foot height limit for the area. But the towers, one at nine stories [...]
By DINESH RAMDE
Associated Press Writer
MILWAUKEE (AP) — While solar and wind power get most of the headlines, geothermal power is quietly gaining traction on college campuses where energy costs can siphon millions each year from the budget.
Schools from Wisconsin to New Mexico have geothermal projects in the works. There are 46 schools divvying up millions [...]
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