6-story apartment building going up on University Avenue near Hilldale (June 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:

February construction site visit.  (2/7/2026)

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

Grayson Building, 4414 Regent Street, Madison Wisconsin. (3/12)

Hilldale adds Pottery Barn to its retail mix.  (3/10)

The Chesapeake.  (3/9)

The Chesapeake apartments.  (2/15)

Block 3 (2/14)

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.  (6/13)

Block 3.  (4/25)

Block 3.  (3/9)

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)

Element Collective, 197-unit workforce housing in Madison Wisconsin. (June 2026 construction site visit)

 

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Headline and top rendering:  University Research Park

Aaron Olver reports:

On November 20, we celebrated a milestone that represents far more than a groundbreaking—it marks the next phase in University Research Park’s evolution into a thriving innovation district. 

Element Collective, a 197-unit workforce housing development by the Mandel Group, is the first major residential project in our park’s 40-year history. This isn’t just about adding apartments. It’s about creating the live-work-play environment that innovation districts require to flourish.

Renderings of project

Wisconsin State Journal,

An earlier rendering shows location of new housing project at right.

Rendering:  University Research Park

Other Element posts:

Element Collective workforce housing.  (April 2026 site visit)

Element Collective workforce housing.  (March 2026 site visit)

Element Collective workforce housing.  (February 2026 site visit)

Element Collective workforce housing (November 2025 site visit)

April 2025 site visit

November 2024 site visit

October 2024 site visit

July 2024 site visit

Element Collective District, University Research Park development, Madison WI (October 2021 to August 2023 construction site visit)

January 2020 site visit.  (1/28/2024)

Old Sauk Trail Apartments on west side of Madison Wisconsin (June 2026 construction site visit)

 

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Rendering:  Madison Plan Commission

Wisconsin State Journal, 6/18/2025

Nicole Pollock reports: 

The three-story development proposed for 6610–6706 Old Sauk Road, on the remaining four acres of the Pierstorff farm, drew opposition from some neighbors who said it would look out of place in the neighborhood, worsen traffic and congestion and increase the risk of flooding. 

After more than a dozen people spoke against the project at a City Council meeting last June, the council signed off on it in a 15-4 vote. Four neighbors filed a lawsuit in July challenging the rezoning of the former farm, arguing that the development would make their properties more likely to flood and that the rezoning conflicted with Madison’s comprehensive plan.

Capital Times, 6/24/2025

A Madison developer plans to forge ahead with construction on Old Sauk Road, despite neighbor objections and a pair of lawsuits. This comes after the City Council recently affirmed rezoning the land for the project in response to a lawsuit challenging the change.

Aerial view of site, located in a highly developed area of Madison.

Related posts:

March 2026 site visit

Feburary 2026 site visit

January 2026 site visit

October 2025 site visit

July 2025 site visit

June 2025 site visit. 

January 2025 site visit.

Old Sauk Road apartment proposal approved by Plan Commission despite pushback from neighbors.  (6/11/2024)

MISCREANT PREACHERS: Forging signatures in the Name of the Lord (#335 in a seres)

 

Photo and headline:  CT Insider, 6/17/2026

Nathaniel Rosenberg reports:

Robert Hoggard, 33, was arrested last Thursday by investigators with the office of Chief State’s Attorney Patrick Griffin. He is facing 14 counts of second-degree forgery and six counts of perjury, court records show. 

The charges stem from his ill-fated 2024 challenge to Rep. Brandon Chafee, a Democrat who has represented the Middletown-based 33rd District since 2021. 

The signatures were flagged as suspicious by Democratic Registrar of Voters Patricia Alston, the same month they were submitted by Hoggard, who at the time worked as an associate pastor at New Jerusalem Christian Center.

Hoggard finished a distant 2nd with 8.1% of the vote in the Connecticut general election.

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"An overseer must be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, and not a lover of money."  (1 Timothy 3:2-3)

Other miscreant preacher posts (which cover a multitude of sins):. 

June 2026

Jackson Lahmeyer.  (6/19)

Reggie Joiner.  (6/18)

Jose Briseno.  (6/18)

Nicholas Rains.  (6/17)

David Ritchie.  (6/16)

Michael Lee Lucas.  (6/14)

Jose Seez.  (6/13)

Winston Batino. (6/12)

Alonzo Diego Fuller Jr.  (6/11)

Derek Nelson.  (6/9)

Scott Willmore.  (6/9)

Alan Chambers.  (6/9)

Jerry Maynard Sr.  (6/7)

Christopher Walter.  (6/7)

Elie Dorcius.  (6/6)

Richard Storey.  (6/6)

Anthony Odiong.  (6/6)

May 2026

Randon Carroll.  (5/23)

Robert Byrnes.  (5/19)

Christopher Riggs.  (5/17)

Charbel Jamhoury.  (5/11)

Jason Lee Allen.  (5/9)

Terry Reed.  (5/8)

Thomas Allen Hicks.  (5/7)

Billy Stephen Turner.  (5/4)

Douglas James Smallwood.  (5/3)

Richard Channing Shealy.  (5/2)

April 2026 (19)

Leslie Williams.  (4/29)

Joshua Trent.  (4/28)

Emilio Alberto Esperanza-Pacheco. (4/27)

Charlie Heffelfinger.  (4/26)

Archbishop Steve Wood.  (4/24)

Philip Vaught.  (4/23)

Kevin Johnson.  (4/18)

Marcus Eichelberger.  (4/17)

John Tyler Moreland.  (4/16)

Kenneth Anderson.  (4/13)

Troyce Hernandez.  (4/10)

Rodney Gibson and Kawiana Young.  (4/9)

Angelo Musicaro.  (4/8)

Ryan Pena.  (4/7)

David Kenneth Demenge.  (4/5)

Lawrence Turnbull.  (4/4)

Robert Glossenger.  (4/3)

Andrew Showers.  (4/2)

Luke Cunningham.  (4/1)

March 2026 (29, a new monthly record)

Alex Montealegre. (3/30)

Marcus Davy Jeffrey.  (3/29)

Misi Tagaloa.  (3/28)

Da'Qwone Hill.  (3/27)

Zachary King.  (3/26)

Bienvenido Lopez.  (3/25)

James Randolph.  (3/24)

Craig and Megan Hagin.  (3/23)

Aidan Smith.  (3/22)

Laurence LaPointe.  (3/21)

Curtiss Tolefree Jr.  (3/19)

Stephanie Remington.  (3/18)

Chuck Brown.  (3/17)

Timothy Thomas.  (3/16)

Patrick Anderson.  (3/15)

Christopher Willett.  (3/14)

Korey Lavergne.  (3/13)

Aaron Lockman.  (3/12)

Marco Zamora.  (3/11)

Bishop Emanuel Shaleta.  (3/10)

Catholic Diocese of Providence.  (3/9)

Mikah Brondyke.  (3/8)

Greg Locke.  (3/7) 

Ted Shuttlesworth.  (3/6)

Lorenz Roseman.  (3/5)

Brian Tome.  (3/4)

Nathan and Jonathan Peternel.  (3/3)

Lisa Levy.  (3/2)

Michael LaMarca.  (3/1)

February 2026 (23, a new monthly record)

Jerrod Geistdorfer.  (2/28)

Caleb Flynn.  (2/26)

Adrian Derrell Davis.  (2/25)

Tyrell Brown.  (2/24)

Myron Chorbajian.  (2/23)

Jonathan Elwing.  (2/22)

Garrett Harmon.  (2/21)

Cedric Monteze Sharp.  (2/20)

Elco Vallier.  (2/19)

David Rodgers. (2/17)

Robert and Jaclyn Dell.  (2/16)

Rod Loy.  (2/15)

Milton Otto Martin III.  (2/14)

William Robbins.  (2/13)

Robert Whipley.  (2/12)

Jose Luis Lopez-Hernandez.  (2/11)

David Lloyd Walther.  (2/10)

Brad Daniel Swink.  (2/9)

Junior Andrew Bennett.  (2/8)

Reymundo Almarez.  (2/7)

Anthony Bazemore.  (2/6)

Isaiah Teague.  (2/5)

Troyce Hernandez.  (2/4)

January 2026 (14)

Michael Mohr.  (1/30)

Brian Carn Jr. (1/22)

Matthew Masiewicz.  (1/21)

Rubel Martinez. (1/20)

Wesley Brobeck.  (1/19)

Theodore Gabrielli.  (1/18)

Korey Lavergne.  (1/17)

Michael Howard.  (1/16)

Jeffrey Anthony Charles.  (1/14)

Ricky Lee Taylor Jr.  (1/11)

Joshua Price.  (1/10)

Jordan Henderson.  (1/9)

Bruce Neal.  (1/8)

Donnie McClurkin.  (1/7)

December 2025 (15)

Enrique Molina.  (12/30)

John Paul.  (12/19)

Joseph Lyle Campbell.  (12/18)

James Watford.  (12/17)

Kenneth Edwards Jr. (12/16)

Doug Overmyer.  (12/13)

Milton Martin III.  (12/11)

Joseph Herzing.  (12/10)

Michael McMullen.  (12/9)

Robert Sullivan.  (12/8)

Danny Varnadore.  (12/7)

Roger Scalice.  (12/6)

Carter August Thomas.  (12/4)

James Stockton.  (12/3)

Michael Martin.  (12/2)

November 2025 (16):

Mark Vega.  (11/28)

Stephen Santeli Castro.  (11/26)

Jesus Gabriel Saldana.  (11/25)

Kenneth McFarland.  (11/24)

Yersson Solarte.  (11/23)

Jason Allen.  (11/21)

Glenn Rosenbaum.  (11/17)

Adolfo Castillo.  (11/16)

Donald Aaron Axtell.  (11/15)

Quintilo Segrero.  (11/14)

Matthew McGinley.  (11/11)

Christian News reports on the rampant number of child sexual abuse in the Name of the Lord by miscreant preachers in 2025.  (11/8)

Eli Regalado.  (11/7)

Andrew Ervin.  (11/6)

Elmer Baca Flores.  (11/4)

Michael and Vickie Hall.  (11/2)

Jason Andrew Swick.  (11/1)

October 2025 (15)

Joshua David Kemper.  (10/31)

Lindsey Whiteside.  (10/25)

Robert L Carter.  (10/23)

Daniel Kellan Mayfield.  (10/22)

Xamie Reyes.  (10/20)

Luis Sosa.  (10/19)

Silas Shelton.  (10/17)

Mark Francis Ford.  (10/16)

Michael Ritchason.  (10/11)

Adrian David.  (10/9)

Gary Thomas Keesee.  (10/8)

Virgil Mozee.  (10/7)

Kevin Curtis Jones.  (10/4)

Robert Morris.  (10/3)

Ryan McElrath.  (10/2)

September 2025 (10)

Jon Paul Sheptock.  (9/27)

Macario Garcia.  (9/26)

Matthew Stephen Masiewicz.  (9/25)

Nathan Wayne Walker.  (9/21)

John McKinzie.  (9/20)

Isaac Tilden.  (9/19)

Diego Fuller.  (9/17)

Walter Sevillano.  (9/13)

Bernadel Semexant (9/12)

Aaron Williams, Jr.  (9/11)

August 2025 (7)

Neal Creecy.  (8/22)

Shelton Burkart.  (8/15)

Jacob Ryan Barnett. (8/9)

Thomas Pinkerton.  (8/8)

Kendrick Oakley.  (8/7)

Clemente Olvera Guerrero.  (8/5)

Nelson David Ochoa Vasquez.  (8/2)

July 2025 (11)

Brett Jarad Monroe.  (7/31)

Stanley David Jay. (7/30)

William Jones. (7/26)

Eli Regalado.  (7/23)

Kenneth Flowers.  (7/18)

John Gibson.  (7/15)

Jonathan Nguyen-Young.  (7/12)

Nelson Alexander Chay.  (7/9)

Devin Cyrus Carroll.  (7/8)

Francier Obando Pinillo.  (7/5)  

Roy Andrews.  (7/3)

June 2025 (11)

Clarence Barry Hungerford.  (6/30)

Christopher Cassell.  (6/27)

Justin Rhodes.  (6/26)

Edward Gabrielli.  (6/25)

Parrish Terry.  (6/24)

Albert Benjamin Wharton.  (6/18)

Dominic Foor.  (6/14)

Ryan McElrath.  (6/10)

Jim Mustain.  (6/7)

Nelson Alexander Chay.  (6/4)

Nathan Roach.  (6/3)

May 2025 (11)

Mitchell Summerfield.  (5/31)

Daniel Lamppin.  (5/30)

Alan Buresh.  (5/29)

Myron Chorbajian.  (5/28)

Shaun Donald Hertlein.  (5/20)

Christopher Whitehead.  (5/16)

Daniel Champ.  (5/13)

Paul Dyal. (5/11)

Yersson David Solarte Basto.  (5/10)

Leo Parker.  (5/8)

Aaron Luke Bradley.  (5/7)

April 2025 (7)

Gregory Jones.  (4/30)

James Vincent Henry.  (4/28)

Brad Swink.  (4/12)

Jaime Arriaga.  (4/10)

William Galbreath.  (4/9)

Darren Day.  (4/8)

Elmer Baca-Flores.  (4/6)

March 2025 (17)

Matthew Lee Richards.  (3/30)

Joshua Lucero.  (3/26)

Jeffrey Summers.  (3/24)

Sergio Guardia.  (3/22)

Marvin Upton.  (3/21)

Rodger Strong.  (3/20)

Britt Taylor.  (3/19)

Christopher Willett.  (3/16)

Daniel Menelaou.  (3/15)

Robert Morris.  (3/14)

Jose Saez Jr.  (3/12)

Stricjavvar Strickland.  (3/11)

Terrance Owens Elliott.  (3/10)

Waymon Jordan.  (3/8)

Stephen Hutto. (3/5)

Charles Brinson.  (3/4)

Michael Eguino.  (3/1)

February 2025 (9)

Jesse Santos.  (2/26)

Richard Lee Sentell.  (2/22)

Ruel Barbee.  (2/16)

Ashley James Crouse.  (2/15)

Lee B. Patrick.  (2/14)

Charles Thessing.  (2/12)

Timothy Nall.  (2/7)

Dwight Suttles.  (2/6)

Jimmie Whaley Jr.  (2/5)

January 2025 (14)

Adrian Daugherty.  (1/29)

John Fiedler.  (1/26)

James McMillan.  (1/25)

Jeffrey Merrow.  (1/18)

Johel LaFaurie.  (1/17)

Jeff Taylor.  (1/16)

Dallas Majewski.  (1/15)

Bruce Hollen.  (1/14)

Francier Obando Pinillo.  (1/13)

Michael Ronald Goble.  (1/11)

Timothy Nall.  (1/9)

Kevin Robert McDonald.  (1/5)

Arturo Laguna Camas.  (1/4)

Lindsey Whiteside.  (1/3)

 

December 2024 (14)

Edward Monk.  (12/23)

Joshua Lough.  (12/22)

Ignazio Medina.  (12/20)

Anthony Odiong.  (12/19)

James Gorman Houston III.  (12/18)

Richard Broom McGee.  (12/17)

Danny Duane Pitts.  (12/12)

Vincent Bishop.  (12/9)

Arturo Alarcon.  (12/8)

Hunter Eubanks.  (12/7)

Daniel Kellan Mayfield. (12/6)

Roy Shoop.  (12/5)

Zachary Joseph Radcliff.  (12/3)

Rodney Martin Locklear.  (12/2)

November 2024 (19)

James McMillan.  (11/30)

Stephen Melton. (11/29)

Charles Sulivant.  (11/24)

Geoffrey Carter.  (11/22)

John Radcliff.  (11/21)

Garrett Harmon.  (11/20)

Aleta Grace Pearson.  (11/17)

Edward R. Monk.  (11/16)

Victor Hernandez-Pineda.  (11/15)

George Bell.  (11/14)

Jose Mora.  (11/13)

William Pounds.  (11/12)

Edward-Richard Hines.  (11/11)

Charles Randall.  (11/9)

Jackson Gatlin.  (11/7)

Harold Norman Cole, Jr.  (11/5)

Gateway Church quartet.  (11/4)

Thomas Moriarty.  (11/3)

Charles Goff.  (11/1)

October 2024 (25)

Stephen Johnson.  (10/27)

Josh Howerton.  (10/26)

Craig Stone.  (10/26/2024)

Steven Lawson. (10/25).  

Scott Crenshaw.  (10/25)

Byron Copeland.  (10/25)

Josiah Anthony.  (10/25)

Ronald Goines.  (10/24)

Tony Cammarota.  (10/24)

Robert Morris.  (10/24)

Luke Cunningham.  (10/24)

Mike Buster.  (10/23)

Tony Evans.  (10/23)

Terren Dames.  (10/23)

James Randolph.  (10/23)

Zachary Joseph Radcliff.  (10/22)

Timothy Charles Rupard.  (10/21)

Matt Queen.  (10/18)

James Vincent Henry.  (10/17)

Pheguel Pierre Louis.  (10/16)

Roy Shoop.  (10/12)

Matthew Lynn Dedmon.  (10/8)

John K. Amanchukwu Sr.  (10/5)

Rodney Martin Locklear.  (10/3)

Gabriel Mills.  (10/3)

September 2024 (16)

Prince Amala Jesuraja Jebamalia Selvaraj.  (9/27)

Marvin Scales. (9/27)

John Raymond.  (9/27)

Roby Cruz-Hernandez. (9/26)

Juan Barrios.  (9/23)

Demiro Johnson.  (9/22)

Glen Dean McCoy.  (9/22)

James Swanson.  (9/21)

William Dunfee.  (9/21)

Steven Lawson.  (9/20)

Andrew Lovisone.  (9/19)

Jeffrey Duane Smith,  (9/19)

Rocky Goodwin.  (9/19)

William Johnson.  (9/17)

Tim Ballard.  (9/13)

Apollo Carreon Quiboloy.  (9/13)