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Thursday, November 6, 2008

WISCONSIN PUBLIC PROJECT LEADS

By a vote of 64-4, Muskego-Norway School District residents voted to spend $1.02M to purchase 57.1 acres on the east side of Muskego, adjacent to S7975 North Cape Road, for future school purposes.

http://www.mymuskegonow.com/story/index.aspx?id=810820

Voters here overwhelmingly rejected two school spending referendums Tuesday, according to results reported early this morning. One referendum would have authorized borrowing $22.5M to build a 400-pupil elementary school and to make technology and safety upgrades to all existing schools. That vote failed by a 58% to 42% margin.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/33876249.html

Germantown referendums fail again

http://www.germantownnow.com/watch/?watch=15&date=11/5/2008&id=48276

A proposal to delay building a new Fire Station 3 and instead put the money into improvements for Station 5 and the city's budding paramedic program was shot down by the New Berlin Common Council

http://www.newberlinnow.com/story/index.aspx?id=813241

Voters have given St. Francis School District the green light to borrow $14.9M for the construction of a science lab addition to the high school; for various repair, replacement and improvement projects at the high school, Deer Creek Intermediate and Willow schools; and for acquiring equipment and furnishings.

http://www.stfrancisnow.com/watch/?watch=29&date=11/4/2008&id=48253

If you voted on the West Bend School District's referendum Tuesday, get ready for some deja vu. You could vote on the same or similar plan on the April 7 ballot. In spring, it will count.

http://www.gmtoday.com/news/local_stories/2008/Nov_08/11052008_14.asp

The Watertown School Board will finally be able to alleviate space issues within the district elementary schools, but may have a difficult time funding additional teachers and staff for that space, according to the outcome of Tuesday's vote. The $22,385,000 referendum was approved Tuesday with 7,536 residents voting in favor of the proposed additions and renovations, and 6,465 residents voting against it.

http://www.wdtimes.com/articles/2008/11/05/news/news4.txt

The Beloit elementary schools have not received significant capital improvements in at least 25 years, but the Board of Education is looking to change that.

http://www.beloitdailynews.com/articles/2008/11/05/news/local_news/news04.txt

Clinton School District's proposed $9.63M referendum aimed at upgrading its schools' facilities, failed by only 31 votes Tuesday night.

http://www.beloitdailynews.com/articles/2008/11/05/news/local_news/news05.txt

Kiel Area School District saw all three of its referendum questions go down in defeat. In the KASD referendums, the second question asked for $17.43M in general obligation bonds to do upgrades and improvements projects at each of the district's schools. That question was defeated 2,977 (64.9 percent) to 1,607 (35.1 percent).

http://www.iwantthenews.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=8400

La Crosse School District voters approve $18.5M plan; would repair heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, upgrade safety and security, and address other "urgent facility needs" district-wide http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2008/11/05/news/00lead.txt

Brillion School District voters Tuesday soundly rejected a $23.7M bond referendum to deal with aging and outdated elementary and middle school facilities by more than a 3-to-1 margin.

http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20081105/APC0101/811050503/1003/APC01

Stevens Point: Portage County voters roundly said no Tuesday to an advisory referendum to build a new $72M justice center downtown.

http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/article/20081105/WDH0101/811050734/1581/WDH01

Voters in the Ellsworth School District have said no to both referendum questions that were on the ballot Tuesday. The first question, involving approval to borrow not more than $2M for major maintenance items had a 2,969 No (53.5 percent) to 2,577 Yes

(46.4) count.

http://www.piercecountyherald.com/articles/index.cfm?id=18257&section=News

Voters in the village of Egg Harbor agreed to keep a tight hold in purse strings for municipal projects. By a 125-54 margin, voters Tuesday agreed to require that the village board obtain a positive vote in a referendum before approving the expenditure of $1M or more on any municipal project.

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20081105/ADV01/811050598/0/ADV&theme=ADVNEWS

In the Hudson area library supporters were disappointed in the results that put the brakes on the proposed plan to purchase the Nuclear Management Building in downtown Hudson and remodel it into a new library. Two questions in four municipalities had to win approval and in the end, only two of the eight passed - dooming the library plan.

http://www.hudsonstarobserver.com/articles/index.cfm?id=31650&section=News

The School District of Rhinelander's third attempt to secure approval to borrow funds for facilities maintenance and upgrades has failed. The referendum passed in all but two of the city's precincts but the overall margin in the city, 261 votes, could not make up for the much larger 699-margin of no votes in the townships.

http://www.rhinelanderdailynews.com/articles/2008/11/05/news/doc4911f6294b07b801930158.txt

It's building time in the Tigerton School District. Voters Tuesday approved a referendum to remodel the original Tigerton High School and to expand and renovate the current middle school/high school.

http://www.shawanoleader.com/articles/2008/11/05/news/news2.txt

Despite objections by a few members, the Barron County Board of Supervisors voted to proceed with securing funding for a $2.5M electric generator project at the county's Waste-to-Energy plant in Almena.

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20189159&BRD=1134&PAG=461&dept_id=150853&rfi=6

PRIVATE LEADS

Site work has begun on the Aloft hotel project northeast of Old World Third Street and West Juneau Avenue along the Milwaukee River in downtown Milwaukee.

http://www.biztimes.com/realestateweekly/

Housing activists today announced plans for a campaign aimed at creating an affordable housing trust fund in Waukesha County. The Waukesha County Affordable Housing Task Force said it would launch its campaign Dec. 2 for county funding to promote affordable housing.

http://www.brookfieldnow.com/watch/?watch=14&date=11/4/2008&id=48238

The Greenfield Plan Commission has recommended measures that would enable the development of two six-story hotels and a banquet center on a 6.5-acre parcel near Highway 100 and Layton Avenue.

http://www.greenfieldnow.com/story/index.aspx?id=811045

The Muskego Plan Commission has recommended rezoning a 30-acre parcel behind the approved Wal-Mart Supercenter from residential to business park district. The parcel would be developed with three to five buildings suitable for light industrial use.

http://www.mymuskegonow.com/watch/?watch=41&date=11/5/2008&id=48299

The Common Council voted, 13-1, to grant a conditional-use permit needed to construct an arcade-themed Dave & Buster's restaurant on the Ewald dealership site on Mayfair Road. The decision is a turn-around from the Community Development Committee's Oct. 28 decision to recommend denying the permit.

http://www.wauwatosanow.com/story/index.aspx?id=813977

Due to the downturn in the economy, the Whitefish Bay School Board has decided not to go to referendum in April asking anywhere from $14M to $40.57M for facilities improvements.

http://www.whitefishbaynow.com/story/index.aspx?id=811619

Con-way Freight is closing its Janesville terminal and 39 others to streamline operations and save as much as $40M annually.

http://www.gazettextra.com/news/2008/nov/05/carrier-will-shutter-janesville-terminal/

The Chippewa Falls City Council voted 5-2 Tuesday to move forward on working with a sand mining company.

http://www.leadertelegram.com/story-news_local.asp?id=BI8EJ03QGD5

While plans for a new business development at Interstate 94 and Highway C in Delafield have met with some opposition from residents, the downtown business community is firmly behind the project http://www.gmtoday.com/news/local_stories/2008/Nov_08/11042008_01.asp

Entrepreneurs are invited to participate in the Northeast Wisconsin Business Plan Competition.

http://www.fdlreporter.com/article/20081105/FON0101/811050767/1289/FON01

Is it an economic development opportunity that is too good to pass up? Or is it too big, too expensive and too much change for some Delafield residents? Those are some of the issues that city officials will begin trying to resolve after a Lake Country-Milwaukee area development team last week proposed a 25-acre, $26M, 300,000-square-foot high-tech office complex on the southeast corner of

I-94 and Highway C.

http://www.livinglakecountry.com/LakeCountryReporter/story.aspx?storyId=813252

The key to downtown Sauk City's revitalization may be in "speciality foods." The final economic and downtown revitalization plan developed for Sauk City by consultant Beth Plutchak concludes specialty foods is a retail niche ideally suited for the village.

http://www.wiscnews.com/spe/news/312838

Stevens Point: A proposed downtown apartment complex will head to Common Council for consideration, but not without concern from citizens who said the project lacked public information and was pushed through too fast.

http://www.stevenspointjournal.com/article/20081105/SPJ0101/811050441/1657/SPJ01

Dairyland Power Cooper-ative announced Monday that it is indefinitely suspending its efforts to site a coal ash landfill in Vernon County.

http://www.vernonbroadcaster.com/articles/2008/11/05/news/01story.txt

New building to serve Merrill soccer families

http://www.merrillfotonews.com/content/401_1.php

Shell Lake: The Washburn County comprehensive plan may have yet another shot at being passed, after both the zoning and executive committees discussed it over the past week.

http://tinyurl.com/5z9sx7

Thursday, October 30, 2008

WISCONSIN PUBLIC PROJECT LEADS

Despite an uncertain economic landscape that has scuttled referendum plans elsewhere, Merton School District officials are leaving it to the voters to decide Tuesday whether they want to fund $3M in maintenance and technology upgrades.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/33484544.html

Seven months after rejecting a $16.5M referendum to build a new elementary school, Germantown School District voters return to the polls Tuesday, Nov. 4, to respond to a more expensive request by the district. Two referendums are on the ballot. The first, asking for $22.5 million, includes about $17.6 million for a new elementary school

http://www.germantownnow.com/story/index.aspx?id=810702

The former Range Line School, 11040 Range Line Road, is to receive $219,000 worth of upgrades. The Mequon-Thiensville School Board on Oct. 27 approved a plan that will replace the steam heat on the first floor of the building with two furnaces during the 2008-09 school year.

http://www.mequonnow.com/story/index.aspx?id=811636

By a vote of 64-4, Muskego-Norway School District residents voted to spend $1.02M to purchase 57.1 acres on the east side of Muskego for future school purposes.

http://www.mymuskegonow.com/story/index.aspx?id=810820

Alderman Joe Poshepny plans to propose using $2M earmarked for a new fire station to aid New Berlin's paramedic program instead.

Fire Station No. 3 is slated to be built in 2009 on Racine Avenue north of National Avenue.

http://www.newberlinnow.com/watch/?watch=25&date=10/28/2008&id=48048

Oak Creek: Mail distribution center plan advances; Plan Commission votes 5-3; public hearing next

http://www.oakcreeknow.com/story/index.aspx?id=811557

Due to the downturn in the economy, the Whitefish Bay School Board on Oct. 22 decided not to go to referendum in April asking anywhere from $14-40.57M for facilities improvements.

http://www.whitefishbaynow.com/story/index.aspx?id=811619

ThedaCare builds $34M clinic in Appleton; North Appleton site will house physicians, specialists

http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20081029/APC03/810290554/1979

The Waukesha County Board approved the 2009-13 capital projects plan Tuesday, but in approving the plan, supervisors showed strong divisions on how to tackle the fate of the Waukesha County Courthouse.

http://www.gmtoday.com/news/local_stories/2008/Oct_08/10292008_04.asp

he pastors and congregation of Liberty Christian Center got one step closer to making their dreams of a new church a reality.

Menomonie Plan Commission approved a preliminary certified survey map (CSM) for a proposed church to be located on 10 acres west of 21st Street, in the midst of the Tower Ridge housing development across from the Menomonie Middle School.

http://www.dunnconnect.com/articles/2008/10/29/news/doc490791414a8e7761507191.txt

Delafield: Architects and contractors hired by the city will present to the Plan Commission their plans for building a new public safety building and remodeling the Public Works Department garage on Main Street.

http://www.livinglakecountry.com/story/index.aspx?id=810479

On Tuesday, local school and health officials broke ground for a new fitness center at Stevens Point Area High School.

http://www.stevenspointjournal.com/article/20081029/SPJ0101/810290738/1657/SPJ01

The Phipps Foundation has pledged $500,000 to help make the building at First and Vine streets the new home of the Hudson Area Joint Library.

http://www.hudsonstarobserver.com/articles/index.cfm?id=31555&section=news

The Pierce County Board formalized the purchase of a third house on Ellsworth's West Grove Street Tuesday night. This acquisition continues to implement a fairgrounds master plan. That plan calls for buying property on the south side of Grove Street as it becomes available.

http://www.riverfallsjournal.com/articles/index.cfm?id=89304&section=news&freebie_check&CFID=102375571&CFTOKEN=43244201&jsessionid=8

PRIVATE LEADS

MillerCoors announced Wednesday that it has signed a 15-year lease agreement for nearly 130,000 square feet of office space for its new headquarters location at 250 S. Wacker Drive in downtown Chicago.

http://milwaukee.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2008/10/27/daily28.html

Sales-tax money flowing to Miller Park district

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/33485539.html

The developers for the proposed Aloft hotel project in downtown Milwaukee have obtained their financing for the project, according to a spokeswoman for the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority (WHEDA), which is assisting the project.

http://www.biztimes.com/realestateweekly/2008/10/29/#aloft-developers-obtain-financing

Cudahy: Using tax-incremental financing funds, the Community Development Authority has purchased four of the homes along Layton and Squire avenues for about $1M and is in the process of acquiring four others to make room for redevelopment.

http://www.cudahynow.com/story/index.aspx?id=808556

With time running out to make funding decisions related to a possible Interstate 94 interchange at Drexel Avenue, Oak Creek and Franklin officials have decided not to act on an economic impact study to determine how important the interchange would prove to be to their communities.

http://www.franklinnow.com/story/index.aspx?id=808952

Greenfield Plan Commission has recommended measures that would enable the development of two hotels and a banquet center on a 6.5-acre parcel near Highway 100 and Layton Avenue.

http://www.greenfieldnow.com/story/index.aspx?id=811045

Menomonee Falls: A rezoning request that would have allowed the development of 10-acre lots has become a sparkplug for discussion on the future of the village's northwest side.

http://www.menomoneefallsnow.com/story/index.aspx?id=808235

The Plan Commission last night approved site and building plans for a nearly 8,000-square-foot addition to the Classic Lanes bowling alley. The addition would include a 3,989-square-foot banquet hall, a 784-square-foot entry area on the east side of the building and a 2,183-square-foot storage area on the southwest portion of the building.

http://www.oakcreeknow.com/watch/?watch=27&date=10/29/2008&id=48102

Oak Creek officials do not want to set any precedents for storage structures in manufacturing districts. That is why the Plan Commission was hesitant to approve two 28-foot tall, metal storage buildings proposed for Kujawa Enterprises, 824 E. Rawson Ave.

http://www.oakcreeknow.com/watch/?watch=27&date=10/29/2008&id=48101

Renovations on an apartment and commercial building in Shorewood, which were delayed for several months after the building's owner died, have begun. Improvements to the Lakewood Building, 3575 N. Oakland Ave., are being partly funded through a $200,000 village grant. The property includes 44 apartments and 7,500 square feet of retail space. The renovations, estimated to cost more than $1.2M, are to be completed in 2010.

http://www.shorewoodnow.com/watch/?watch=17&date=10/28/2008&id=48069

Wauwatosa: A plan to open an arcade-themed Dave & Buster's restaurant on the Ewald dealership site on Mayfair Road might go bust after one committee voted to recommend denying a conditional-use permit.

http://www.wauwatosanow.com/story/index.aspx?id=811664

Delafield: Although, according to conventional wisdom, the national economy is heading into the tank - if it has not already arrived there - three multimillion-dollar development projects are expected to be presented to the Plan Commission this week. They include plans for a 25-acre high-tech office park at Highway C and I-94 that will be anchored by a four-story, 120,000-square-foot office building big enough to house 500 employees of RedPrairie, a computer software company. Also, the Plan Commission will hear from another group of developers who want build 50 apartment units on about five acres next to City Hall, as well as develop, in the future, about 10 more acres farther east, near the American Legion Hall on Lapham Peak Road.

http://www.livinglakecountry.com/story/index.aspx?id=810479

Oshkosh: Two years into a neighborhood revitalization plan in the Near East, the city is looking at ways to get homeowners more involved in the process and changes are being made to the way denials of renovation projects are handled.

http://www.thenorthwestern.com/article/20081029/OSH0101/81028152/1128/OSH01

Oshkosh: Developers Andy and Art Dumke now have through the end of this year to determine whether they can fill offices, a restaurant and an apartment complex in the Marion Road Redevelopment Area.

http://www.thenorthwestern.com/article/20081029/OSH0101/810290456/1128/OSH01

The loss of manufacturing jobs in the U.S. - no place more evident than in the Fox River Valley - brought a national lobbyist group to Green Bay on Tuesday to urge voters to elect the candidates who will enact fair trade laws.

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20081029/GPG0101/810290763/1207/GPG01

The Wausau City Council has unanimously approved a plan to develop a 15-home subdivision on the northwest side, with city assistance.

http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/article/20081029/WDH0101/81029043/1581/WDH01

Sauk City: Survey shows that many people are shopping in Madison and Baraboo and that a lack of selection was the primary reason they shop somewhere other than Sauk Prairie.

http://www.wiscnews.com/spe/news/311817

Over the next three to four months, local merchants and shoppers may be asked to answer questions about how a new 150,000-square-foot Supercenter will impact the city of Sturgeon Bay.

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20081029/ADV01/810290617/0/ADV&theme=ADVNEWS

Marshall Erdman plans new plant in Waunakee

http://www.waunakeetribune.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=52&ArticleID=715&TM=58392.95

T Wall hopes to develop land in Westport

http://www.waunakeetribune.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=52&ArticleID=714&TM=58392.95

Friday, October 10, 2008

WISCONSIN PUBLIC PROJECT LEADS

The Racine Public Library is one small step closer to buying land for a new library branch in Mount Pleasant. The Board of Trustees for the Racine Public Library would like to buy 25 city-owned acres near the intersection of Green Bay Road and Spring Street.

http://www.journaltimes.com/articles/2008/10/09/local_news/doc48ed56dd07bab816936703.txt

Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker said he will veto the County Board's decision to drop the option of moving the county's Mental Health Complex to the former St. Michael Hospital campus.

http://milwaukee.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2008/10/06/story11.html?b=1223265600^1711171

Panel gives Frame Park baseball stadium preliminary approval

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=804250

West Bend schools to postpone building referendum amid economic crisis

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=804255

It will be months before residents of a flood-moldy town subdivision in Spring Green will know if their homes will be acquired and razed as a public service.

http://www.wiscnews.com/bnr/news/308668

The Oshkosh school board voted Wednesday on a $24M referendum plan that if approved will build a new north side elementary school, create a capital improvement plan and deal with deferred maintenance in the district.

http://www.thenorthwestern.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081009/OSH0105/810090409/1128/OSH01

Public voices heard on Eau Claire County Jail planning

http://www.leadertelegram.com/story-news_local.asp?id=BI0DF0STFV5

Village involvement in buying a new library building is on hold after introduction of a community campus concept for the project.

Members of the Holmen Village Board's Finance and Personnel Committee Tuesday tabled a proposed resolution that called for the village to match "dollar for dollar" fundraising, up to $2M for a new area library.

http://www.courierlifenews.com/articles/2008/10/09/news/00lead.txt

A first glimpse of the proposed 2009 capital improvement projects was presented to Onalaska's Board of Public Works Tuesday night showing overall needs of about $15M for 48 projects from various departments. More than half of that amount has already been funded through existing bonds or grants or other funds from state and federal agencies, leaving about $8.3M of borrowing.

http://www.courierlifenews.com/articles/2008/10/09/news/01cityprojects.txt

Onalaska parks board has set a number of items for future years. For 2010, the priorities - assuming all of 2009's wish list has been taken care of - include tennis court restoration at Rowe Park, waterfront development, bluff land protection and a rewrite of the Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation plan.

http://www.courierlifenews.com/articles/2008/10/09/news/05parkshelter.txt

The Pierce County Building Committee will meet Tuesday in the Pierce County Board room at the Courthouse in Ellsworth. Items on the agenda include door access for county building; the Seyforth building; Courthouse elevator; bleachers, restrooms and exhibit buildings on fairgrounds; bond projects; HVAC project; striping parking lots; review and revise the position description for the maintenance technician; bids for Pierce County Office Building roof repair

http://www.piercecountyherald.com/articles/index.cfm?id=17940&section=News&freebie_check&CFID=99789068&CFTOKEN=54627038&jsessionid=8

Door Co.: Foundation announces campaign for hospital upgrades; Funds will pay for final phase of $40M in improvements http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081008/ADV01/81008132/0/ADV

The Black River Falls Utility may have found the land on which it will build its new $3.5M facility, and it would save utility customers nearly $320,000 and significantly reduce the overall cost of the project.

http://www.jacksoncountychronicle.com/articles/2008/10/07/news/00lead.txt

PRIVATE LEADS

Racine: Ordinance would allow higher garage roofs

http://www.journaltimes.com/articles/2008/10/09/local_news/doc48ed575b77843630788702.txt

The long-awaited redevelopment of Main Street in Menomonee Falls is under way with the $20M renovation of the former Falls Inn and the $17M construction of the 82-unit Autumn Leaves Condominiums project.

http://milwaukee.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2008/10/06/story15.html?b=1223265600^1711189

Madison residential and specialized retail project developer Gorman & Co. said Thursday that it has signed contracts to buy two buildings in the former Pabst Brewery complex that the firm tentatively plans to market to restaurant and retail tenants.

http://milwaukee.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2008/10/06/daily31.html

Hooters wins lease for Brookfield site in auction

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=804222

Oregon, Wis.-based Gorman and Company Inc., which is already redeveloping the former Keg House at the former Pabst brewery complex in downtown Milwaukee, announced today that it has two more buildings in the brewery complex under contract. Gorman is purchasing the former Brew House and Mill House buildings in the Pabst complex from Joseph Zilber. The sale is scheduled to close near the end of the year. Gorman plans to convert the buildings into apartments and commercial space for restaurant, retail and office uses.

http://www.biztimes.com/daily/2008/10/9/developer-to-buy-two-more-prominent-pabst-brewery-buildings

The Ponderosa restaurants at 204 W. Layton Ave., Milwaukee, and at 3518 Kohler Memorial Drive, Sheboygan, will close Friday

http://www.biztimes.com/daily/2008/10/9/two-ponderosa-restaurants-to-be-closed

Jefferson County economic development panel met Wednesday afternoon at the Fort Atkinson Chamber of Commerce to update the status of its work on tentative plans for future economic development in the county, as well as to monitor sentiment related to where planning might be directed.

http://www.wdtimes.com/articles/2008/10/09/news/news1.txt

Despite a September increase, housing starts in Dane County are headed for their lowest annual level in at least a decade

http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/biz/308767

Revised Cardinal Solar plan could mean more jobs in Mazomanie

http://newspubinc.com/main.asp?SectionID=6&SubSectionID=7&ArticleID=7450&TM=59684.74

Oshkosh: Rohloff rolls out redevelopment big picture, detailed how the Marion Road Redevelopment Area fits into the city's larger picture for downtown and riverfront redevelopment as well as the city's history of work in the area, past projects that have already filled about 60 percent of the total development area and how a proposal by Andy and Art Dumke, Mike Goudreau and Randy Schmiedel would serve as the missing piece in just one segment of the effort to transform both the north and south shores of the Fox River.

http://www.thenorthwestern.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081009/OSH0101/810090408/1128/OSH01

It's not a good deal for his company, but Oscar C. Boldt said a proposal by Boldt Construction Co. to give a nearly $500,000 investment to the city is nonetheless in the best interest of Appleton.

http://www.postcrescent.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081009/APC0101/810090500/1003/APC01

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) today announced that it has selected the "HH-Porter Split Option 1" as the preferred alternative for the US 10 corridor between I-39/US 51 and Portage County B.

http://www.stevenspointjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081009/SPJ0101/81009108/1657/SPJ01

The development of Wisconsin 57 into a four-lane highway is expected to offer travelers many benefits. But business owners in communities bypassed by the new highway are also preparing for the potential backlash.

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081008/ADV01/810080661/0/ADV

The owners of a planned Comfort Suites hotel in Hudson received approval from the City Council on Monday night to go ahead with the project. Construction of the 93-unit hotel at 2620 Center Drive in the Ban Tara commercial development will begin soon.

http://www.hudsonstarobserver.com/articles/index.cfm?id=31245&section=news

Kewaskum: Candy Tree expansion receives favorable recommendation from Plan Commission

http://www.kewaskumstatesman.com/archives/2008/september/candytree.html

The City of Middleton Plan Commission voted in favor of granting the Tribeca Village development more than $18M in tax increment financing (TIF) assistance. The plan commission's vote, as well as one by the city's finance committee preceding it, went against calls for a smaller amount in recommendations by a private consultant and the city's financial director.

http://www.newspubinc.com/main.asp?SectionID=7&SubSectionID=101&ArticleID=7373

Members of the Phillips School District Catawba School Ad Hoc committee approved the draft of the Economic Development Study after making only a few minor changes http://www.phillipswi.com/articles/2008/10/08/news/doc48ecd94b9b1d4313143155.txt

Port Washington officials want to force bank building repairs; Aldermen say investment firm needs to fix downtown structure it started demolishing eight months ago

http://www.ozaukeepress.com/story1.html

Thursday, October 2, 2008

WISCONSIN PUBLIC PROJECT LEADS

Brown Deer parents interested in keeping pace with technology in classrooms if remodeling or new building construction were to take place.

http://www.mybrowndeernow.com/story/index.aspx?id=801443

The School District of Cudahy is going to referendum next spring to repay $1.48M in borrowing and to cover some high-priority capital projects.

http://www.cudahynow.com/story/index.aspx?id=798357

Elmbrook School District officials are estimating that the 2009 cost to finance the remodeling of Brookfield Central and East will run about 19 cents of the estimated $9.39 per $1,000 of equalized property value the district will levy on taxpayers.

http://www.elmgrovenow.com/story/index.aspx?id=801459

With bids on a new fire station coming in $221,000 over budget, New Berlin aldermen want to see if there are ways to trim costs before awarding the bids. In the planning stages since 2005, the new station, to be built on the east side of Racine Avenue north of National Avenue, was budgeted at $1.8M. But construction prices have increased 8 percent to 12 percent a year and continue to rise

http://www.newberlinnow.com/story/index.aspx?id=800717

Answers to questions raised by Oak Creek residents during an August Plan Commission meeting on rezoning for a proposed U.S. Postal Service facility are now available on the city's Web site. Developer Cobalt Partners has provided responses to questions about the number of trucks that would travel to the facility daily, air pollution monitoring, road improvements funding and more.

http://www.oakcreeknow.com/watch/?watch=27&date=10/1/2008&id=46954

The We Energies property that abuts the Cousins Center might be converted to an athletic field as part of a future Cardinal Stritch University campus.

http://www.stfrancisnow.com/story/index.aspx?id=801087

A three-county panel charged with negotiating the terms of Waste Management's planned expansion of its Metro Landfill could endorse as early as today the company's plans to create a 100-acre environmental corridor alongside the landfill in return for expanding 137 acres into wetland-dotted lands to the north.

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=801236

Negotiations are continuing on a new lease between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Bradley Center; new scoreboard would cost between $3-4M

http://www.jsonline.com/watch/?watch=20&date=10/1/2008&id=46924

The Waukesha School District, along with four other state districts, has filed a $200M lawsuit against two firms responsible for handling investments that lost M's of dollars during the past two years.

http://www.gmtoday.com/news/local_stories/2008/Oct_08/10012008_07.asp

After years of discussion and debate, the Sauk County Board voted Tuesday night to award a contract of $12.56M to build a new county-run nursing home in Reedsburg.

http://www.wiscnews.com/bnr/news/307262

Mauston City Council approved a motion to move forward with a new public works building. Council members approved the authorization to spend up to $10,000 for a preliminary design.

http://www.wiscnews.com/jcs/news/306668

Oshkosh school district administration will ask the school board at its first meeting in October to approve holding a three-question, $24M referendum in April. The first and most expensive question would ask taxpayers to support building a north side replacement school for Oaklawn Elementary on school district owned land on Ryf Road. That school would accommodate other students as well including the former Sunset Elementary School students; would cost about $15M based on estimates done earlier this year.

http://www.thenorthwestern.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081001/OSH0105/80930175/1128/OSH01

Menomonee: A plan to spend $12.4M to renovate a residence hall at UW-Stout and construct a new food service facility will be presented at a two-day UW System Board of Regents committee meeting that starts Thursday.

http://www.leadertelegram.com/story-news_local.asp?id=BHTV7GJDFNS

VA clinic goes out to bid

http://www.superiortelegram.com/articles/index.cfm?id=30957&section=News

An agreement for the City of Ashland to contribute $50,000 toward renovation of the pool at Northland College needed a tie-breaking vote from Mayor Ed Monroe before it was approved.

http://www.ashlandwi.com/articles/2008/10/01/news/doc48e38a1d01854865826678.txt

The Stoughton Common Council last week approved a $712,876 contract with the Kenneth F. Sullivan Co. to reconstruct the Stoughton Utilities offices

http://www.stoughtonnews.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=2&ArticleID=704&TM=58397.14

Waunakee: Decision on library site stalled in negotiations