Volume 2 - Issue 34 - Circulation 3,500 - Week of 08.20.09 to 08.27.09
About This Publication - Always Online at WisconsinDevelopment.com
Wisconsin - 8/27/2009 - Wisconsin Development News is available online this week. Check back for new stories as they are entered HERE.
OR you can find WDN on any of the 150 FutureWisconsin Websites starting HERE.
Ken Notes: I am in St. Ignace MI on my way to the Island "mon"... So abbreviated news is on line but will catch up next week. Remember you can check WDN online anytime from anywhere... even Mackanac Island.
Madison - August 22, 2009 - It's not often that city planners get to work with a 33-acre infill site in the heart of Madison. In fact, the former Royster-Clark fertilizer plant on the city's east side may be the only site like it, giving planners a rare opportunity for redevelopment as well as a challenge to bring the lot more in line with surrounding neighborhoods.
After working with a neighborhood planning team for about 18 months, city officials have put together a plan for the Royster-Clark area at the intersection of Cottage Grove and Dempsey roads that will start making its way through city committees this week, beginning with the Long Range Transportation Planning Committee on Thursday. The Plan Commission will take it up in September, and the City Council will do the same in October....
Ken Notes: Developers may want to weigh in from the onset of this project...
Madison - August 21, 2009 - Plans for a $107 million makeover of the Edgewater Hotel downtown will get a going over Tuesday night at a neighborhood meeting held by downtown alders and city zoning and planning staff.
The meeting is at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Bethel Lutheran Church, 312 Wisconsin Ave.
Second District Ald. Bridget Maniaci and Fourth District Ald. Mike Verveer want public input on the proposal by Hammes Company to refurbish and renovate the Edgewater, plans which include a 17-story addition...
Ken Notes: Lots to talk about...
Wisconsin - 8/27/2009 - Gov. Jim Doyle will lead a November trade mission to Israel focusing on life sciences, water technology and agriculture, the Department of Commerce announced Wednesday.
The mission, scheduled for Nov. 16-20, will give participants the chance to meet with distributors, potential customers, and business and government officials....
Madison - AUG 27, 2009 - An Italian restaurant chain with 18 locations in the Chicago area plans to open its first restaurant outside of northeastern Illinois in Downtown Madison. Francesca’s, founded by chef Scott Harris in 1992, is scheduled to open next spring in a 4,700-square-foot space on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard., just a few yards off the Capitol Square. The restaurant would be between Starbucks Coffee, 1 E. Main St., and Ocean Grill, 117 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd....
Ken Notes: Yes!!!
WISCONSIN - This is a comprehensive data base of all business professionals in development, planning, government, commercial real estate, architecture, construction, and service providers to business. Any professional may enter his or her own business card for free. FutureWisconsin is Wisconsin's own social networking data base to promote new business in the state...
Ken Notes: Network with professionals doing business in the state...
Recent commercial property listings from PropertyDrive.
Wisconsin - More than $336 million in federal stimulus money has been allocated to counties, cities, towns and villages in Wisconsin. Of that total, about $124 million has been allocated through the state Department of Transportation for road, bridge and transit projects. And more than $48 million in Housing and Urban Development funds has been allocated...
Ken Notes: Great Resource
STURGEON BAY - 8/27/2009 - Door County's largest employer has notified the state it plans to lay off hundreds of workers this fall.
The Bay Shipbuilding Company says 405 of its 700 employees will be let go at the end of October due to declining business.
Lenny Gunderson, a spokesman for Boilermakers International, Local 449, says he expects the layoffs to be temporary....
Ken Notes: Door County would be a great location for the right manufacturer. I have toured this facility and these employees are craftsman...
The seller of real estate is required to file a Real Estate Transfer Return (RETR) with the County Register of Deeds when recording deeds of property conveyances. State statutes require those returns to be filed electronically beginning July 1, 2009. Below is a link to the electronically filed Real Estate Transfer data as of July 1st 2009 and forward. The data will be updated on a weekly basis...
Ken Notes: This link is a regular feature of WDN...
Madison - AUG 25, 2009 - Local contractors expect to finish 10 major airfield improvements totaling $22.13 million at the Dane County Regional Airport by the end of the year.
'Few airports in the country have this kind of activity going on,' Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk said at a press conference Tuesday featuring an airfield tour of the work. 'This is a very complicated set of construction projects all going on at the same time and (the contractors) are making it look easy.'...
Ken Notes: We will have a class A facility now a few more flights...
Treasury Department Debt to the Penny Link
CNN Money Scorecard
Government Recovery Website
Wisconsin State Budget Google News
Create a vibrant, innovative and prosperous entrepreneurial business climate, nurturing, connecting and celebrating entrepreneurs and their companies...
Ken Notes: A valuable resource worth visiting for all businesses in the state. A special thanks for BizStarts for compiling and sharing the resource!...
Middleton - AUG 26, 2009 - Hailed three years ago as innovative for relying on cooperation with the developer rather than using unwieldy inclusionary zoning, a mainstay of the City of Middleton's affordable housing initiative took a hit last week when the common council voted unanimously to shut down a program at the Hidden Oaks housing development....
Oregon - AUG 25, 2009 - Commercial developer Paul Lynch, president of PLH & Associates LLC., is negotiating with village officials over the amount of tax incremental financing his company will receive for a hotel it plans to build on Park Street. Lynch, an Oregon resident, intends to build a 69-room Holiday Inn Express in the village's newly created tax incremental financing district (TIF 4)....
Oregon - 8/22/2009 - By late September, there will be new asphalt, a bicycle path, a colored walkway and new light poles in the Hitching Post parking lot in downtown Oregon. A newly designed entrance to Oregon Village Hall will be completed, along with a new parking lot behind the building, next to Waterman Triangle Park. The overhead power lines in front of Oregon Bowl will be buried underground and new period lighting, consistent with what was installed last summer throughout the downtown, will be in place. And Brook Street will be repaved and have new curb, gutter and sidewalk....
Wisconsin - This section allows you to access any of our current space needs and acquire some brief detail regarding each. You'll notice that in addition to posting our current RFPs and RFIS, we are listing other significant needs for which we are seeking space....
Ken Notes: Brokers should check this often...
Middleton - AUG 26, 2009 - The City of Middleton is hoping to receive approximately $40 million in federal stimulus money to help construct a transit station and parking structure at the corner of highways 12 and 14. City administrator Mike Davis said the facility could stand alone as a hub serving buses, cars and bikes. It is also proposed alongside a railway corridor “with an eye toward” linking it to commuter train service in the future....
A single source for all economic development news for Greater Madison and beyond. Wisconsin Development News, (WDN) is published weekly by Ken Harwood.
Available to commercial brokers, developers, financial professionals, community planners, public officials, the press and others who have expressed an interest in Wisconsin development. All stories should link to their original source in the original context. These pages may contain advertising, and I encourage patronage of both our sponsors and the related advertisers and publications I link too.
We link to Editorial and Opinion articles each week, this does not suggest we agree with the stance of the author. The "Ken Notes" items are the opinion of our editor. We will include any comments or feedback sent to WDN. Ken also writes a monthly column for Capitol Region Business Journal and other state publications.
The focus for WDN is to create a positive view of economic development for the Greater Madison Region. The publication will also feature news from around the state, nation, and world that offers insight to policy, trends, and projects that may be of interest to the reader.
Please forward any information you would like included for consideration. We do our best to include any non advertising stories, press releases, or articles from other sources that you feel would be of interest to the reader. WDN can also host your news stories and press releases online. Please feel free to forward WDN.
We continue to develop this newsletter because of the positive feedback we have received in the past and strong encouragement to continue. As always let us know what you think.
Ken
Kenneth Harwood
WisconsinDevelopment.com LLC
P.O. Box 930234
Verona, WI 53593-0234
608.334.2174
ken@wisconsindevelopment.com