By Paul Snyder The Madison Common Council on Tuesday lifted a 50 percent pre-lease requirement to provide a construction loan for a proposed business incubator. The council’s action allows planning to proceed for BioLink, a 31,000-square-foot project that will hold a greenhouse, office and research space for new businesses in the city. The project will …
Monthly Archive: June 2010
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Jun
16
Summit voters choose to become village
By Mike Johnson of the Journal Sentinel Summit – Voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a referendum measure to turn the Town of Summit into a village. The vote was 483 to 85 in favor of incorporation as a village. Voter turnout was 14.6%; 570 of the town’s 3,898 registered voters cast ballots. Of the ballots …
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Jun
16
Elections loom large for high-speed rail project
By Paul Snyder High-speed rail advocates are racing the state’s gubernatorial election cycle to line up support for an expanded track network to Green Bay and Minneapolis. “This is not a done deal,” said Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz at a rally Tuesday for high-speed rail expansion. “We don’t know what the next governor will do.” …
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Jun
15
Sound, shadow standards scare wind developers
By Paul Snyder Environmental consultants can count the minutes a home is affected by the strobe-like flickers of a wind turbine’s shadow. They can measure the decibels of the rhythmic thrum of turbine blades cutting through the air. They can use those flicker and sound measurements to determine the best placement for wind farms. But, …
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