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ROCKTON, ILL. (excerpt from Roscoenews.com) – The Village of Roscoe has plans to retain Vandewalle & Associates to provide zoning administration and municipal planning services for the Village of Roscoe. The appointment was discussed at the annual public hearing held on Tuesday, March 5.

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WISCONSIN RAPIDS (excerpts from Wisconsin Rapids Tribune) – The idled portions of the Wisconsin Rapids mill will be sold.

At a Planning Commission and Common Council meeting both groups voted to adopt a Wisconsin Rapids Recovery and Reuse Plan developed by Vandewalle & Associates and place it on file in the event it could be used to work with future property owners.

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MILWAUKEE, WIS. The Water Council, a global water technology hub sprung from the water industry assets of the greater Milwaukee region, is celebrating its 15th anniversary of action, economic development, and global impact. In this video founding president and CEO Dean Amhaus remarks on Water Council history, major milestones and future. In so doing he gives a nod to the foundational Milwaukee 7 economic asset analysis done by the Vandewalle & Associates team.

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MUNCIE, IN (excerpts from Greenfield Reporter) — Hancock County and the City of Greenfield each scored a big win at the American Planning Association’s spring conference in Muncie.

The Indiana Chapter of the APA hosted the event at the Ball State University Alumni Center, honoring professional planners and other city and county officials who have excelled in planning for success in communities throughout the state.

Hancock County’s planning director, Kayla Brooks, accepted the award for the county’s 2024 comprehensive plan, which was facilitated by Wisconsin-based Vandewalle & Associates.

A video of the APA Awards can be found here.

DANE COUNTY, WISC. (excerpts from landfill.countyofdane.com) – With less than 5 years of landfill space remaining at Dane County’s Rodefeld Landfill, the county has an opportunity to create an innovative plan for its future waste stream.   

A vision has been developed for this site on the East Side of Madison that includes development of a sustainable business park or “Sustainability Campus” to divert waste and create local circular economies. 

This will be accomplished by attracting reuse, repair, and recycling businesses; new waste management technologies; and research.

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MADISON, WISC. (excerpts from www.madison.com) – After talks with the city and neighbors, a developer has refined ambitious plans to redevelop a block that holds the beloved but aging Essen Haus German restaurant Downtown for a hotel, housing and parking.

Vandewalle & Associates has been instrumental in the entitlement process for the property.

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MADISON, WISC. (excerpts from madison.com) The Madison Plan Commission on Monday backed a zoning change to pave the way for a Veridian Homes development that would deliver a mix of 600 homes and apartments to a stretch of farmland on the Far West Side.

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STEVENS POINT (excerpts from the Stevens Point Journal) – City leaders have new ideas for redeveloping the former downtown Shopko property. Documents released Friday afternoon show proposed plans that feature a new transit center and several buildings that include both residential, retail and mixed-use spaces.

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MADISON, WISC. Members of the Vandewalle & Associates and Eye Level Studio team are eager to meet the best next young planners and landscape architects at UW Madison this week!

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VERONA, WIS. (with excerpts from madison.com) – Veridian Homes has been working with Vandewalle & Associates to plan a project on the Far West Side that calls for building a mix of 600 homes and apartment units and adding 40 acres to Elver Park.

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MADISON, WIS. (excerpts from madison.com)–Madison’s building boom continues, largely with housing projects that will bring hundreds of new units to Downtown and across the community.

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MADISON, WISC–(excerpts from CapTimes.com): Crews have broken ground on Rise Madison, one of the largest affordable housing projects in the city, to be built at the site of the former Gardner Bakery at East Washington and North Fair Oaks avenues.

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HORICON – (excerpts from wiscnews.com): The CityView subdivision and Moraine Park Technical College’s Horicon Regional Campus are among the changes Horicon residents will see in 2024.

The largest new business coming to town in 2024 will be the Moraine Park Technical College’s Horicon Regional Campus, which is set on 28 acres of land on the western edge of the city.

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KEWASKUM — (excerpts from gmtoday.com): The Village of Kewauskum recently held an open house in the Kewaskum Municipal Annex Building for residents to learn the third draft of the Downtown Revitalization Plan (DRP), hear updates on the new Kewaskum Municipal Building (which was covered in the Jan. 4 Daily News) and share their thoughts about the projects, specifically the DRP, with village representatives and associates from Vandewalle & Associates.

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JACKSON, WISCONSIN – The Vandewalle & Associates team has been hard at work implementing the Washington County Next Generation Housing (NGH) Initiative’s pilot development in the Village of Jackson in partnership with Village and County leaders.

Aimed at leveraging a novel funding structure to provide 1,000 new-construction, owner-occupied housing units to address workforce housing needs throughout Washington County by 2032, the NGH initiative will seek to ensure that 75% of the program’s housing units are sold for no more than $320,00 and that 100% are sold for no more than $420,000.

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MADISON, WISCONSIN – (with excerpt from The Cap Times) – The Madison Plan Commission voted unanimously to support a proposal from nationally known student-housing developer Core Spaces to build the 465-unit student housing development near the University of Wisconsin campus. Vandewalle and Associates’ Brian Munson played a significant role in partnership with Core Spaces in getting the project through its first Plan Commission approval, from site selection and lot consolidation to refining the project’s funding structure and procedures.

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MANITOWOC, WISCONSIN – (excerpt from the Herald Times Reporter): City leaders took a step towards acquiring the former Lakeshore Edgewater Plaza Mall, after recently ruling the site, which overlooks Lake Michigan, a blighted area.

The former Edgewater Plaza Mall was recognized and emphasized within the City’s recent 2023 Comprehensive Plan Update created by Vandewalle & Associates as a key catalytic development opportunity.

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JACKSON, WI — Harbor Homes and Hillcrest Builders were announced on Wednesday as the two companies who would be constructing homes in The Oaks of Jackson, Washington County’s Next Generation Housing (NGH) pilot development in Jackson.

Members of the two organizations, village government and Washington County government gathered at the Jackson Municipal Complex Wednesday afternoon for the announcement.

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HORICON, WI – Representatives of V&A in,cluding planners Ben Rohr and Scott Harrington, attended the Moraine Park Technical College – Horicon Campus ground breaking in late September. V&A was instrumental in negotiating the deal on behalf of the City of Horicon.

WALWORTH COUNTY, WI – V&A planner Sonja Kruesel was a panelist at the Walworth County Housing Summit in late September, held at the Abbey Resort. The aim of the summit was to start a county-wide discussion about challenges and potential solutions to the housing shortage. It also marked the start of a 12-month initiative led by WCEDA, and funded by Walworth County, to work with municipalities that want to facilitate housing development in their respective communities. Follow this link for more details on the summit and on the housing program.

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VERONA, WISC. (WITH EXCERPTS FROM MADISON.COM) – The historic New Century Charter School in Verona could soon become Art House 350, a hub for artists and art education.

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EAU CLAIRE, WISC. (EXCERPTS FROM WKOW) – Eau Claire Community Development Director Aaron White said plans to redevelop Kessler park, which is in the Cannery District, will continue. The housing-focused redevelopment plan was developed for the City of Eau Claire with the help of Vandewalle & Associates.

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MADISON, Wis. (EXCERPTS FROM WMTV) – Neighbors are weighing in on a proposal to redevelop an area of downtown Madison. The plan would redevelop properties along South Blair Street and East Wilson Street.

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Janesville’s new Town Square downtown riverfront has made the cover of the most recent issue of Madison Region Economic Development, the Livability.com publication dedicated to economic development efforts in the South Central Wisconsin region that includes Dane and Rock Counties.

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WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis. (EXCERPTS FROM WSAW.COM) – The City of Wisconsin Rapids discussed its recovery and reuse plan (created with the help of Vandewalle & Associates) for the newly bought Billerud Paper Mill at a July public meeting.

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CEDAR FALLS TO WATERLOO, IOWA: Cedar Falls and Waterloo are coming together to celebrate what unites the valley geographically and economically–the Cedar River, its trail system, and its downtown public spaces.

Last year INRCOG released its proposal for the “Cedar Valley River Experience”–developed with the help of economic development and planning consultant Vandewalle & Associates.

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The Congress for New Urbanism publication Public Square acknowledges massive corridor redevelopment project in Madison can be considered a model for urban strip corridor redevelopment in a new article posted at https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2023/06/28/commercial-strip-becomes-mixed-use-promenade.

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The Dane County Department of Waste & Renewables, Vandewalle & Associates, and other project partners are inviting members of the public to the first interactive workshop on the Sustainability Campus on Saturday, August 5th from 11:30-2:30 pm.

This workshop is being held specifically for neighbors and others located closest to the Campus developments.

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A number of Comprehensive Plans, Comprehensive Recreational Plans (CORP), and Plan Updates that were prepared with the help of the Vandewalle & Associates planning team have now been adopted in communities around Wisconsin.

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HORICON, WIS. – The City of Horicon has announced a new local resource to help support improvements
planned to downtown buildings.

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BELOIT, WIS. (EXCERPTS FROM WCLO.COM)– Beloit is now conducting their 12 month process to update the comprehensive plan, which was last updated in 2018.

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HORICON, WIS. (EXCERPTS FROM MORAINEPARK.EDU/TODAY) Moraine Park Technical College will expand its campus offerings and footprint through a new regional center that will house a 17,937-square-foot building for lab and instructional space and a 3,500-square-foot fire training tower.

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DODGE COUNTY, WIS. – Dodge County held a public Open House on Thursday, June 29 to share the draft Comprehensive Outdoor Recreational Plan Update developed with the help of Vandewalle and Associates. While the plan process is nearing completion, the public was offered several ways to provide valuable input at the Open House.

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WATERLOO, IOWA: The City of Waterloo held a grand opening ceremony for its new River Lights project on June 1. The project is part of the city’s Veterans Way project that winds through the downtown.

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