Retiring Guy's Digest: Madison Yards, Madison WI: May 2023 construction site visit

Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Madison Yards, Madison WI: May 2023 construction site visit

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4/7/2023 update starts here

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3/19/2023 update starts here

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You're looking at the new location of Whole Foods Market.

Madison Yards

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Wisconsin State Journal, 10/20/2022

When the Hilldale Shopping Center and the state Department of Transportation’s towering office building opened in 1962, they were on what was then the Far West Side of Madison.
The rows of apartment buildings along Sheboygan Avenue had not yet been built, Segoe Road was virtually void of development and homes in the University Hill Farms neighborhood were less than 10 years old.
Sixty years later, the area used by UW-Madison for more than half a century as a 640-acre experimental farm is in the midst of another significant transformation.
The addition of more housing, office space, retail, restaurants and outdoor public space at Hilldale and the neighboring 21-acre, $300 million Madison Yards development to the west will bring more people and traffic to the neighborhood and mark another major change on Madison’s retail and housing landscape.

10/16/2022 update stats here

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View from top of Hill Farms State Office Building parking ramp

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Two close-ups

View from ground level

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In this screenshot, the eastern edge of Madison Yards is on the left. (Intersection of Sheboygan Avenue and North Segoe Road.)

Screenshot at the intersection of Frey Street and North Segoe Road

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Rendering showing the intersection of University Avenue and North Segoe Road

Madison Yards

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From the top level of the Hill Farms State Office Building parking ramp

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12/2/2021 update starts here

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11/23/2021 update starts here

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Madison Yards Block 1, Smith Gilbane

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2/27/2021 update, 'The next phase is proposed', starts here.

Wisconsin State Journal, 2/22/2021

Summit Smith Development and Gilbane Development Co., both of Milwaukee, are proposing a seven-story building with 154,000 square feet of office space and 11,000 square feet of first floor retail; another five-story structure with 78 apartments and 5.5-story parking garage with 600-plus stalls; and a two-story building with 17,000 square feet of commercial/retail space on a 3.2-acre site at the northwest corner of Segoe Road and Sheboygan Ave.

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1962 Hill Farms State Office Building demolition.

2/12/2021 update, "Whole Foods and apartment tower proposed", starts here

Clearly, the planned apartments do not fall under the category of affordable housing.

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Wisconsin State Journal, 2/3/2021

A development team is seeking to build a 15-story, 275-unit apartment building, a 54,300-square-foot Whole Foods and a 550-stall parking structure at the corner of University Avenue and North Segoe Road as part of the Madison Yards project, which envisions a mix of office space, apartments, retail and a hotel all surrounding a central plaza.

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8/1/2020 update starts here.

There's nothing happening here it's clear.

From ground level

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From the second level of the Hill Farms State Office parking ramp

Developers seek to push Madison projects forward amid COVID-19 pandemic. (Wisconsin State Journal, 4/29/2020)

Developers are seeking to push forward several big projects as the city review process, delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, cranks back up.

The proposals were moving through the pipeline when the coronavirus crisis struck in mid-March and city officials canceled most board, committee and commission meetings other than those deemed most essential. The Plan Commission missed a meeting and had two virtual meetings in April, but the Urban Design and Landmarks commissions haven’t met since early March.

1/11/2020 update starts here

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Whole Foods to relocate to larger space at proposed Madison Yards. (Wisconsin State Journal, 1/10/2020)

Whole Foods Market, currently located at 3313 University Ave., has signed a lease for a 50,000-square-foot space at Madison Yards, a mixed-use development that is home to the 608,000-square-foot state Department of Transportation office building. Ultimately, according to plans from Smith Gilbane, the developer of the 21-acre site, the more than $300 million plan calls for 400 units of upscale housing, a hotel, offices and more than 110,000 square feet of retail, restaurants and entertainment space.