The Towering Isthmus: 16-story building with 335 units of workforce housing proposed at West Wilson Street site

 

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Madison.com, 2/23/2022

Developer Randy Alexander, who has done many projects in the city and elsewhere, wants to demolish a four-story building with 25 apartments for the 16-story tower reaching to the Capitol view height limit with 335 units on the nearly half-acre site at 139 W. Wilson St. 

The site is next to a 12-story office building that houses Paisan’s restaurant, at 131 W. Wilson St., and across the street from the Dane County Courthouse. The intent of Alexander’s project is to create “affordable workforce housing” for people in the hospitality industry and others who want to live Downtown, a letter of intent from 139 West Wilson LLC and SEA Design to the city says. The affordability is achieved through density and a design that maximizes efficiency while not sacrificing function, it says.

Other Towering Isthumus posts:

2022

Developer to transform the Library Mall end of State Street in Madison WI.  (3/27)

2021

Oliv on State Street.  (3/2)

2020

Downtown Madison MATC campus proposal.  (2/13)

2019

AC Hotel Madison is open for business.  (11/12)

Keeping tabs on HubbA HubBa and the West Gorham Street canyon.  (4/21)

Uncommon unbranded.  (4/21)

To buutique or not to boutique.  (4/8)

151 East Wilson. (1/4)

2017

East Washington corridor.  (9/12)

Two views of the Lyric Apartments from a sunny East Mifflin vantage point.  (9/12)

2016
The Lux on West Johnson Street.  (10/23)

Another look at Ovation 309.  (10/22)
Capitol's Edge Apartments, the final shots.  (9/16)

2015
The Towers of Porta Bella.  (8/13)
670,000 square foot development risin' on the 800 block of East Washington.  (4/19)

Sleeping and entertainment destination to rise in the middle of this photo.  (1/11)

2014
Cranes at dusk.  (12/11)

The Towering Isthmus: A behemoth hogs the skyline from Bascom Hill.  (12/4)
The Hub, the new hulk in town.  (11/16)
North Bedford Street Project Still in the Proposal Stage.  (11/11)
Blue Velvet.  (9/10)
The New Edgewater Hotel gets ready for its fireworks celebration.  (9/10)
Among the first wave of towers on the Isthmus.  (9/9)
For those of you who haven't stood at the intersection of West Gilman and State Street in Madison Wisconsin lately.  (9/9)
A tree grows on West Gilman Street.  (9/9)
Nobly or otherwise, this is no longer the question.  (9/8)
The towering isthmus (left to right).  (8/27)
The Towering Isthmus (and the 3 cranes): For folks who can afford the view.  (7/22)
That Was Then, This is Now: The 400 Block of West Gilman.  (7/18)
New housing rising.  (5/8)