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How can cities become more pedestrian-friendly?

It’s a question dozens of local transportation planners, advocates and residents sought to answer, sometimes in minute detail, as they wandered neighborhoods this month during a pair of “walk and roll” audits in Sun Prairie and Madison.

The audits came as part of the national Week Without Driving initiative, designed to spotlight the opportunities and challenges for non-automotive transportation in communities across the country. Locally, representatives from AARP Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Council of the Blind and Visually Impaired joined planners from the Greater Madison Metropolitan Planning Organization and cities to explore sidewalks and shared-use paths from the perspective of pedestrians.

Armed with clipboards, participants were generally looking for whether their trip was comfortable, safe, functional and interesting, said Zia Brucaya, RoundTrip manager for the Greater Madison MPO...

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RSK: About time....now if people will obey the rules is another question.

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Wisconsin Housing Preservation Corp. will celebrate the groundbreaking of the Prairie Haus Senior apartment building on Oct. 20, at 3 p.m.

Located at 1003 Elmer Road in New Glarus, the $10.8 million development will add 50 mixed-income apartments for adults age 55 and older when it opens in mid-summer 2027.

The three-story development will include 35 one-bedroom and 15 two-bedroom apartments, including 30 market-rate rentals and 20 for low-income households earning up to 60% of the area median income...

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RSK: Not exactly a NORC (naturally occurring retirement center) like the Hilldale area, but you are seeing more of these located in suburbs and surrounding smaller communities.

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The proposed Hiawatha West Amtrak line connecting Milwaukee and Madison has received a $218 million federal grant for its design and construction, according to a report in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

While the new line will still require about $55 million in state funding, the federal money brings the line, which will include stops in Pewaukee and Watertown, closer to reality.

“We’ve been working hard to build the safe, reliable 21st-century infrastructure needed to support Wisconsin’s growing 21st-century economy and workforce, and we’re excited to move this critical project forward to do just that,” Gov. Tony Evers said in a statement.

Hiawatha West service could start as soon as 2030 with two round trips daily...

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RSK: This will change the value of the real estate near the stations and along the route.

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The Madison Office Lifestyle Portfolio consists of 13 Class A, amenity-rich office properties ranging in size from approximately 25,000 square feet to over 300,000 square feet and is home to more than 130 tenants. The portfolio is located on the west side of Madison and Middleton, with the majority of properties situated in the Far West submarket.

Wisconsin’s statewide economic development agency has signed at least five nondisclosure agreements with developers of artificial intelligence data centers, adding a previously unknown level of secrecy to the billion-dollar projects.

The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp., a quasi-government state agency, signed one of the NDAs nearly two years before a proposed data center in Menomonie was announced to the public and six months before the city signed its own NDA....

• Wisconsin’s statewide economic development agency has signed at least five nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) with data center developers.
  
  
• Wisconsin Watch previously reported that five communities had signed local NDAs with data center developers. The statewide disclosure increases to eight the number of Wisconsin projects that used an NDA.
  
  
• NDAs have drawn criticism for keeping the public in the dark about the multibillion-dollar projects while government officials negotiate the terms of a project. Economic development officials say NDAs are necessary to attract businesses to Wisconsin.

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RSK: KInd of a catch 22 but data centers and disclosure are a hot topic right now.

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Data centers, a once-obscure commercial real estate sector, have suddenly become a fixture of campaign ads blaring into living rooms across the United States.

With candidates from both parties attacking their opponents by framing them as supporting the data center industry, the issue could have big implications for who controls Congress and statehouses after November's midterm elections.

Before this summer, data centers rarely appeared in political advertising anywhere in the U.S., according to advertising analytics firm AdImpact. But by the start of this month, television viewers in 38 states were seeing political ads focusing, at least in part, on data centers. The ads range from high-profile races for governor and the Senate to down-ballot contests for Congress, state legislatures and local offices...   ...Full Story Here

RSK: Do not use all our water, do not jack up our electric and energy rates and cut the noise pollution is the answer.

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The $20 million community program accompanies a planned data center campus as the company and city work to finalize details

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RSK: Data centers are not the only reason utility rates are going up. All the green energy in solar and wind, which is not reliable in our climes and the closing down of fossil fuel generation is driving rates sky-high. Also, power companies are paid to shut down fossil fuel power plants and also get paid as if they are producing electricity and giving a 10% return. Just not right.

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A Sixth Avenue lot just off Times Square has been home to a magazine building and a pop-up shopping court, and outlasted its owner’s decision to abandon plans for a luxury hotel there.

Last month, construction signs on its plywood fence announced what’s next: a 41-story hotel, due in 2029.

It’s one of the last hotel projects to win approval before the city made new ones far harder to build.

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RSK: A huge demand for new hotels in NYC but the new regime has enabled crippling hoops to go through.

CARW Deal of the Year Awards and Annual Meeting

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With over 350 experienced real estate professionals, Knight Barry provides exceptional support and service. Visit our website for more information about our 50+ commercial and residential offices throughout Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota.

MADISON: 2450 Rimrock Road, Suite 204, 608-255-2700
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RSK: It is coming down to having data centers have their own power generating plant on site.

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With the largest Real Estate Practice of any law firm in Wisconsin, Reinhart offers clients custom-tailored real estate insight.

ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--U.S. office leasing has rebounded substantially over the past year, but demand and supply issues are making it difficult for volume to fully recover to pre-pandemic levels, according to data from CoStar, the leading global provider of online real estate marketplaces, information and analytics in the property markets.

Office tenants signed new leases for an average of 105 million square feet over the past four quarters – an improvement over the prior four-quarter period but remaining roughly 10 million square feet below the 2015-19 average.

“Earlier in the decade, many large occupiers consolidated into smaller footprints in response to post-pandemic ways of working, which may have been the dominant factor in bringing down average lease transaction sizes,” said Phil Mobley, national director of office analytics at CoStar Group. “Since then, per-worker space requirements have stabilized. However, elevated construction and financing costs have stifled construction activity, and renovations remain unusually slow, which means that major occupiers seeking to relocate to updated space have relatively few options.”..

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RSK: It may not be back to precovid days but it could be the new norm since work at home and desk sharing continues.

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Since 1971, St. John Properties has designed, developed, and managed spaces that fit every type of business. Our team anticipates and serves the needs of over 2,700 clients, including small, mid-sized, and large companies, nationwide.

Class B office buildings across Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens reached 72% of pre-pandemic visitation levels in August 2026 and have held that range for two years, according to a Real Estate Board of New York analysis of 200 properties. Midtown performed best among submarkets at 89% of pre-pandemic activity, while Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn/Queens hovered around 70%. Midtown South lagged but showed recent improvement. Twenty percent of properties studied now exceed their pre-pandemic visitation rates.

The city’s Class B inventory totals more than 235 million square feet across 1,500 buildings, housing small and mid-sized businesses, nonprofits, creative firms, and technology startups. Properties with experienced ownership, strong transit access, and diversified tenant rosters recovered faster than buildings hit by major tenant losses or coworking contractions. Forty-one percent of analyzed properties reached at least 80% of pre-pandemic visitation. REBNY executive vice president Basha Gerhards said policy must account for the wide performance gap between buildings that can compete for tenants and those facing structural challenges.

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RSK: Without much new construction, companies are turning to Class B office buildings and sprucing them up

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Park Towne is a family run Madison-based real estate company serving southern Wisconsin for over 50 years. Led by second generation brothers Mike, Jim and Joe Ring, Park Towne has a portfolio of for-lease commercial properties and offers development, management and brokerage services.

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RSK: It might be prudent to wait until the November mid-term elections are over.

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Data centers have dominated industrial headlines — and for good reason. But, demand for warehousing and logistics space remains strong in its own right: U.S. e-commerce sales reached $340.2 billion in the second quarter of 2026, up 12.2% year-over-year and 20.2% of core retail for the highest share since 2020. And, in August, container imports hit 2.6 million Twenty-foot Equivalent Units (TEUs), the third-highest monthly total on record.

Much of that demand is landing in markets that were barely on the logistics map a decade ago. That’s because the e-commerce boom turned former agricultural, energy and desert metros into logistics markets in their own rights. In many of them, logistics has grown into an outsized part of the local economy by adding jobs faster than the population grew and bringing a wave of new companies and industrial space with it.

To identify where warehousing and logistics have expanded most significantly in the last decade, we ranked 131 U.S. metros with populations above 400,000 on nine indicators covering logistics employment, pay, business formation and industrial real estate, with growth weighted most heavily. See the methodology for the full breakdown. See the methodology for the full breakdown.

Here are some of the takeaways:

Overall

• Bakersfield, Calif., is the #1 industrial boomtown metro
• Six of the top 10 metros are in California’s Central Valley
• Logistics jobs grew faster than the population in 127 of the 131 metros studied

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RSK: Some interesting statistics here.

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Question:

Is a seller required to specify an amount of compensation they are willing to offer another firm when entering into a listing contract?

Answer:

No. The revised WB listing contracts allow a seller to indicate a willingness to offer compensation to another firm working with a buyer without committing to a specific amount when the property is listed.

The seller may choose to offer a specific amount of compensation, indicate a willingness to consider compensation without specifying an amount, or decline to offer compensation. Any offer of compensation is voluntary and negotiable.

If the seller does not establish a specific amount in the listing contract, the seller may still agree to pay compensation to a firm working with a buyer as part of a transaction. The compensation must be documented in the executed offer to purchase or option to purchase.

However, when a firm is working with a buyer-customer, the Seller Offer of Compensation (Buyer Customer) provision in the revised offer to purchase may be used only in response to an offer of compensation made by the seller. It remains unclear whether a general willingness to consider compensation without identifying an amount satisfies the definition of an offer of compensation in the WB-11...   ...Full Story Here

	The Gialamas Company, Inc.	RFA Asset Management Madison, WI	Key Commercial Real Estate, LLC
Madison Commercial Real Estate LLC	St. John Properties	IA Management, LLC	Wisconsin Commercial Real Estate
Park Towne Realty LLC	Mullins Group, LLC	Crown Commercial	Flad Development & Investment Corp.
Evans Properties, LLC	Keller Real Estate Group		MIG Commercial Real Estate, LLC
First Weber Group, Inc - West Towne	Opitz Realty, Inc.	First Weber Group, Inc - Prairie Du Sac
The Lenhart Company, Inc	Scott Faust & Associates	Shamrock Real Estate Services, LLC	Targa, Inc
Executive Management, Inc	Stark Commercial - East	Urban Land Interests	Slinde Realty Company
Assist-2-Sell/Pohlkamp & Associates	Berkshire Hathaway Home Services Matson Real Estate	Artisan Graham Real Estate

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