The $10 million project will expand Highway 19 to four lanes, construct new bridges over the Yahara River, and reconstruct the River Road intersection into a roundabout.
Original 10/22/2018 post, "New Madison-area Fleet Farm now open at state highway 19 and Interstate 39/90/94", starts here.
Photo and video by Retiring Guy
Original 8/8/2018 post, "Fleet Farm to open new Madison area store at state highway 19 and Interstate 39/90/94", starts here.
Is Mills Fleet Farm getting ready to rumble with Blain's Farm & Fleet?
The $25 million project comes less than two years after the Brainerd, Minnesota, company was purchased by KKR of New York, one of the country’s largest investment firms, in a move designed to add stores to its lineup of 37 locations in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and North Dakota. Wisconsin is home to 18 stores, but others are planned or under construction in Kenosha, Ocononowoc, Eau Claire and Delavan.
That, and the strong possibility that Mills will expand into Illinois, could bring the retailer into closer competition with the similarly named but separate Blain’s Farm & Fleet, a Janesville-based chain that sells some of the same types of merchandise.
Historically, there has been little overlap in the territories of the two retailers. The great majority of Mills stores are in eastern and central Wisconsin, and in Minnesota. The great majority of the 38 Blain’s stores are in southern and southwestern Wisconsin, and in northern Illinois.
From March 19, when St. Croix County recorded its first confirmed COVID case, through September 30, the county reported a total of 960 cases, an average of 4 per day.
Since October 1, St. Croix County reported an additional 2,847 cases, an average of 56 per day.
During the past week (November 14-20), the county has averaged 82 cases per day.
The outbreak in Wisconsin spiraled beyond control weeks ago, with rates of new cases that are consistently among the country’s worst. Tests are often scarce, the governor has begged people to stay home and all but one of Wisconsin’s 72 counties faced “critically high” case activity on Thursday, the state’s highest level of concern.
Week after week, the state shatters records for cases, hospitalizations and deaths, said Dr. Ben Weston, the director of medical services for the Milwaukee County Office of Emergency Management. Desperate pleas from officials, even as the United States surpassed 250,000 deaths from the virus, do little to stop the spread.
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Statewide
WisconsinCOVID cases mapped and graphed. (updated daily)
Regionally
Langland and Lincoln countiesMilwaukee, Racine, Kenosha, Walworth, and Waukesha counties.
[county section] Elsie Weller is listed as living at 14 Winger Avenue in Clarendon
1983 Warren City Directory
[county section] Elsie is listed as living at 5 Whitney Street in Glade Township
Elsie was a fairly popular name during the first third of the 20th century, spending 34 years (1900-1933) in the top 100 and peaking at #35 in 1901. After a nearly 30-year hiatus (1976-2004), she has worked her way up into the top 300.
From the site of Madison Yards, still on the drawing board
7/15/2019 update starts here.
Photos by Retiring Guy
5/17/2019 update, "Open for business (the nightlife edition)", starts here.
The title track from Thin Lizzy's 1974 album, their 4th -- and an "underrated gem of a record", according Stephen Thomas Erlewine at AllMusic. To which I am in full agreement. The band made its first appearance on the Billboard Hot 100 and Top 200 Albums charts in 1976, with "The Boys are Back in Town" and "Jailbreak", respectively.
5/2/2018 update, " A peek between Westin Place and Venture", begins here.
Photo by Retiring Guy
4/6/2018 update, " 4 views of Hilldale hotel construction progress", starts here.
Sawyer Terrace close-up
Sawyer Terrace full view
Standing next to back side of Metcalfe's
In the vicinity of Cafe Hollander and Morgan's Shoes (Hilldale)
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Photos by Retiring Guy
1/4/2018 update, "Prophylactic hotel slowly rising", starts here.
Here's a view of what the rooms might look like. Springhill Suites is a Marriott brand. Others include Fairfield, Courtyard, Residence Inn, TownPlace Suites, and AC Hotel. All told, Marriott has 42 locations in Wisconsin. This will be the ccompany's second Springhill Suites location. (The other one is in Green Bay.) 11/19/2017 update starts here.
Photos by Retiring Guy
11/2/2017 update, "Cranes over Hilldale", starts here.
Photos by Retiring Guy
8/31/2017 update, "Marriott Springhill Suites foundation work underway at Madison Hilldale", starts here.
Weston Place residents on the east side of the condo have a bird's-eye view.
7/31/2017 update, "Some Weston Place residents soon to lose rm w/ a Hilldale view". starts here.
The photo
Photo and video by Retiring Guy
The video
4/1/2017 update, " Weston Place residents feeling hemmed in on all sides", starts here.
View from Sawyer Terrace, just west of Hilldale. From left to right: Venture, Weston Place, Segoe Terrace.
All photos by Retiring Guy
View from across North Segoe Road.
View of site of proposed hotel, looking east toward Hilldale Shopping Center.
View of site of proposed hotel, looking west toward Weston Place.
“We think it is too close to us; the footprint of the building is still too big,” said Roger Fritz, a resident of Weston Place who spoke on behalf of the Weston Place Condominium Owners Association before the city’s Urban Design Commission on Wednesday. “That’s just too much, too close to a residential area.”
6/27/2016 update, "'Ghost Condo residents learn to live in harmony with a new Venture", starts here.
Critics say the proposed apartment at 198 units per acre is more than twice as dense as the 12-story, 121-unit Weston Place and far more dense than any other building in the Hill Farms area.
