6-story, 146-unit apartment building going up on University Avenue near Hilldale (February 2026 construction site visit)

 

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Rendering and aerial view:  Madison Plan Commission

Headline:  Wisconsin State Journal, 6/11/2025

Nicole Pollock reports:

Nearly a year after receiving city approval for a five-story apartment building on University Avenue, a developer wants to double the size of the project. The original proposal from Apex Real Estate Holdings and Walter Wayne Development would have replaced a pair of commercial buildings between 3535 and 3553 University Ave., a short distance from Hilldale on Madison’s Near West Side, with 71 apartments, 76 covered parking stalls and about 1,400 square feet of commercial space.

Related posts:

January construction site visit.  (1/4/2026)

University Avenue apartment project near Hilldale doubles in size.  (6/11/2025)

5-story, 71-unit apartment building going up on University Avenue near Hilldale in Madison Wisconsin.  (1/31/2025)

Other Hilldale area projects:

2026

The Chesapeake.  (1/5)

2025

The Chesapeake apartments.  (11/13)

The Chesapeake apartments.  (9/14)

University Avenue apartment project near Hilldale doubles in size.  (6/11)

University Hill Farms Historical District, Madison Wisconsin:  401 North Segoe Road.  (5/8)

You can now grab a salad at what was once, for a relatively brief time, the best place to see a movie in Madison Wisconsin.  (5/5)

Sephora and Warby Parker about ready to move into their new digs at ever-involving Hilldale Shopping Center in Madison Wisconsin.  (1/26)

2024

Hilldale announces new tenants at former Sundance Cinemas space.  (10/12)

Former multiplex at Hilldale Shopping Center being repurposed for restaurant and retail space.  (7/21)

Former multiplex at Hilldale Shopping Center being repurposed for restaurant and retail space.  (5/1)

Hilldale Phase 3 redevelopment, Madison WI.  (3/3)

 

2022

You said goodbye to Sundance Cinemas in 2015, now say goodbye to AMC Hilldale Theaters.  (12/7)

Plaza portion of Hilldale Phase 3 redevelopment, Madison WI.  (8/22)

Just in case you're wondering, the Apple Stpre at Hilldale in Madison WI has reopened.  (1/22)

2021

Around the block, Madison WI: Hill Farms apartments.  (10/10)

Hilldale Shopping Center:  Keeping up with the times.  (10/3)

The Hamptons at Hilldale (North Segoe Road and Vernon Boulevard).  (6/21)

2020

Marriott Springhill Suites  (11/20)

2018

1962 Hill Farms office building demolition.  (6/12)

2014

Hilldale is Undergoing Yet Another Makeover.  (9/25)

2011

Wehrmann's at Hilldale: "I can’t stay in business being someone’s showroom".  (1/28)

Madison Yards

Block 3.  (11/13)

New Whole Foods Market impresses.  (4/10)

2023

Whole Foods gets closer to opening its new store at Madison Yards.  (11/18/2023)

Whole Foods gets ready to open new store in Madison Yards.  (9/1/2023)

Madison Yards/Hill Farms redevelopment project, Madison WI.  (7/23/2023)

Whole Foods moving to Madison Yards.  (5/23/2023)

Block 6 of Madison Yards (public plaza) now under construction.  (5/23/2023)

Madison Yards construction site visits.  (series)

EO Apartments at Madison Yards.  (5/18/2023)