Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Mixed-use development at 1800 block of Packers Avenue in Madison WI (April 2023 construction site visit)


Photos by Retiring Guy






10/2/2022 update starts here

Photos by Retiring Guy




10/19/2021 update, "From high-end to low-cost housing at Madison's north side,"  starts here.

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Odessa Affordable Housing. “Avenue Square Senior Apartments,” a $17.3 million project at 1802-1818 Packers Ave. and 2102 Schlimgen Ave. on the North Side with 41 of 68 units for those with lower incomes. Would receive $1.64 million in city support. Awarded $860,000 from Dane County subject to County Board approval. Has already secured tax credits through WHEDA and city land use approvals.

Google Maps view (rectangle added)




Original 4/12/2016 post, "Just what Madison's Oscar Mayer neighborhood needs:  'Higher-end' housing", starts here.

A view of the 1800 block of Packers Avenue


Development proposal aims to fill high-end housing gap on North Side.  (Wisconsin State Journal, 4/4/2016)
The roughly $13 million project would include 90 underground parking stalls and 25 surface parking stalls and would provide a new, high-quality housing option to Madison Area Technical College students, frequent Dane County Regional Airport users and others, Griffin said.

A rendering for The Elevation


I have a suggestion for developer Blake Griffin.

Create a Google Alert for "affordable housing".  It provides quite the list of daily reading, as I discovered when I did so recently.  

There is an affordable housing crisis not just in Dane County but across the United States.  Locally, numerous high-end housing projects (see "The Towering Isthmus" blogposts) have transformed the Madison skyline -- and exacerbated the challenges of meeting the needs of the homeless in the process.

Keeping 60% of The Elevation's apartments at rents of $1,000 or less ($999?) does nothing to address a lack of affordable housing in Madison.

2 comments:

Laurie said...

It's happening now. It started a couple weeks ago. Very informative article, thank you. I like knowing what's going on in my neighborhood. :)

marathon mom said...

This is true it really is not affordable housing if rents are over 1,000 per month and senior living off SS and pensions.