Monday, July 5, 2021

Reenvisioning The Triangle in downtown Madison WI


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The roughly 26-acre Triangle bounded by South Park and Regent streets and West Washington Avenue was once the core of the low-income, multiethnic Greenbush neighborhood razed amid national urban renewal efforts in the 1960s. 


Today, the Triangle includes about 340 housing units at five sites and a small Asian grocery store on 10.5 acres owned by the CDA; housing and community center owned by the nonprofit Bayview Foundation, formed in 1966 to support culturally diverse, low-income families, many of them immigrant refugees from Southeast Asia; a UW Health clinic; and Select Specialty Hospital.




Original 1/27/2019 post, "Madison Public Library clippings files:  Madison urban renewal (part 3, the Triangle, 1970-1979)", starts here.

December 21, 1970

Number key:
1.  *Medical office building
2.  Medical office building
3.  Motel/hotel/shopping center complex
4.  *Extended care convalescent facility

2 for 4 completed.

1971

April 23, 1971

September 12, 1973



The hotel would have been constructed at the point where West Washington and South Park meet.  (At top center-left of photo) 

July 5, 1975

August 19, 1979


Other MPL clippings file posts:
Madison urban renewal (part 2, the Triangle, 1964-1969) . (1/27/2019)
Madison urban renewal, part 1 (1962-1964).  (1/27/2019) 
Downtown Madison parking ramps (1956-1971).  (1/22/2019)
History of the Dane County airport.  (12/21/2018)
City's first skywalk opens in 1966.  (10/9/2017)
Typewriter art.  (10/9/2017)
Proudfit and Regent streets widening, 1955.  (9/30/2017)
Northport Connector project, 1960.  (9/30/2017)
Regent Street extension beyond Rosa Road, another bad idea left on the drawing board.  (5/27/2017) 
Drake Street extension, a bad idea left on the drawing board.  (5/26/2017)


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