Low-cost housing development project at 3401 East Washington Avenue, Madison Wisconsin (June 2024 construction site visit)

 

View across East Wash

Photos by Retiring Guy

View across Fair Oaks

Headline and rendering:  Wisconsin State Journal, 7/20/2022

The project could become the first to get city financial assistance to support lower-income housing and use special construction measures to insulate units in anticipation of the stationing of U.S. Air Force F-35 fighter jets at nearby Truax Field starting in 2023. 

The site, which now includes a 2,100-square-foot retail building and 111,000-square-foot former bakery at the corner of East Washington Avenue and North Fair Oaks Avenue, is assessed at $2.85 million and has been vacant since 2019. It’s adjacent to Hawthorne Elementary School, 3344 Concord Ave.

Previous occupant:  Gardner Bakery 

Other East Washington posts:

2024

Redevelopment project at 3401 East Washington Avenue.  (2/7)

151-room Moxy Hotel construction site visits.  (1/29)

New home of Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra.  (1/29)

2023

15-story hotel proposed for Archipelago Village.  (10/17)

The Continental.  (7/25)

The Standard site visits series.  (2/23)

2022

Huge mural provides showcase for new mixed-use development.  (10/2)

Archipelago Village.  (3/3)

Low-cost housing proposed for former Bimbo Bakeries site.  (1/23)

Madison Youth Arts Center.  (1/2)

2021

The Valor.  (10/19)

800 block project revisited:  Love notes to the temporarily shuttered Sylvee.  (2/14)

2020

The Arden.  (12/18)

10-story apartment building proposed for 400 block.  (1/10)

Stone House mixed-use development on East Washington.  (1/9)

2019

Hotel Indigo.  (12/2)

NIMBY chronicles.  (11/12)

AC Hotel, Madison WI:  A view from the 10th floor bar.  (11/12)

Capital East parking garage.  (1/14)

2018

East Capital parking garage UPDATE. Late November construction progress report. (11/28)

Proposed hotel put on hold. (2/12)
StartingBlock construction as we approach the end of January. (1/30)

2017
The Lyric Apartments are ready for occupancy.  (8/30)
This stretch of East Washington Avenue in Madison, Wisconsin, has undergone a major transformation during the past 5 years.  (5/13)

2016
Madison East Washington Festival Foods is open for business.  (4/13)

2015
The balconies of the Constellation.  (4/19)

2014
The Constellation rises above the treetops.  (9/7)