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Wisconsin State Journal, 11/10/2022
The draft plans call for a mix of housing and commercial space, community gathering areas with food carts and restaurants at the intersection of Commercial and Packers avenues, now mostly defined by large parking lots.
Commercial Avenue would become a walkable, “Main Street”-style district, and busy Packers Avenue would be converted from a four-lane highway that now separates the North and East sides to a city street with sidewalks, pedestrian crossings and landscaped terraces.
Most of the Oscar Mayer buildings would be repurposed, including several structures on the north side of the 72-acre site for a much-needed satellite bus storage facility to facilitate expansion of the system and implementation of Bus Rapid Transit. A future BRT route could run along either Packers Avenue or Sherman Avenue.
Rendering: Wisconsin State Journal
Capital Times, 12/14/2022
The proposal to create two lots of affordable housing was unanimously approved by the Plan Commission despite facing opposition from some residents who pointed to environmental concerns over the project.
Under the proposal, Lincoln Avenue Capital, a California developer, would construct one six-story building with 250 units of all-affordable senior housing on one lot. On another lot, the developer would construct a seven-story, 303 unit family housing building which would also be all-affordable housing.
Rendering: Capital Times
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