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| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 10 - Wk: 100 Date: 5/27/2026 3:11:03 PM | ||
| Affordable housing over Sturgeon Bay arcade opens with ceremony, tours | ||
Leo's notes: By converting long-vacant upper-story space above an active downtown business into attainable apartments, the project shows how adaptive reuse can deliver housing without greenfield expansion or costly new infrastructure in Sturgeon Bay. Its rapid lease-up reinforces a broader market reality: small-scale, well-located infill housing remains one of the most effective tools for supporting permanent residents in high-pressure tourism economies. Ken Notes: Rehabbing older properties and adaptively reusing abandoned properties are another tool in the development belt for workforce housing. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 22 Date: 5/27/2026 2:48:47 PM | ||
| Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce building to become affordable housing | ||
Leo's notes: The conversion of a long-standing office property on East Washington Avenue into 222 income-restricted apartments reflects a broader market transition: underutilized commercial sites are increasingly becoming prime candidates for high-density workforce housing in strong-growth cities like Madison. Just as important, the layered financing structure — combining TIF, WHEDA tax credits, and private development capital — underscores the reality that affordable housing production at scale still depends on substantial public-private partnership. Ken Notes: The problem is it is expensive and the end result is either heavily subsidized or prohibitively expensive. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 22 Date: 5/27/2026 2:54:50 PM | ||
| Milwaukee Office-to-Multifamily Project Lands $114M Loan | ||
Leo's notes: The 100 East Wisconsin conversion signals how deeply capital markets and public finance are now intertwined in large-scale downtown adaptive reuse. With more than $114 million in total financing, the deal reflects how office-to-residential projects increasingly depend on complex, stacked capital structures to pencil in. While branded as a luxury transformation led by Klein Development and MOS R.E., the inclusion of roughly 20% affordable units shows the continuing policy expectation that even high-end redevelopments must carry measurable public benefit... | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 22 Date: 5/27/2026 2:58:13 PM | ||
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| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 10 - Wk: 125 Date: 4/6/2026 9:26:43 PM | ||
| Work starting on one of Milwaukee area | ||
Leo's notes: (content behind pay wall) The redevelopment of the 100 East tower reflects a broader shift in urban housing policy: converting obsolete office space into mixed-income residential use. With 373 apartments, including 75 workforce units, the project signals growing recognition that downtown recovery and housing affordability are increasingly tied together in the Milwaukee market. Large-scale adaptive reuse projects like this also demonstrate how existing commercial buildings can absorb new housing demand faster and more efficiently than ground-up development alone. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 22 Date: 5/27/2026 2:55:47 PM | ||
| $400K Oshkosh duplex project breaks ground, aims to fill need for affordable housing | ||
Leo's notes: By placing two supportive units on a long-vacant lot in Oshkosh, the project aligns housing delivery with specific populations—those transitioning from homelessness, domestic violence, or refugee resettlement—rather than relying solely on broad-market affordability metrics. It also reinforces a pragmatic development pattern emerging across Wisconsin: modest, grant-supported projects that rely on local foundations and revolving public funds to produce immediate, place-based housing outcomes. | ||
| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 22 Date: 5/27/2026 3:02:39 PM | ||
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| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 26 - Wk: 22 Date: 5/27/2026 3:08:49 PM | ||
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| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 10 - Wk: 125 Date: 3/23/2026 9:49:04 PM | ||
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| Click to Display / Share This Note - Vol: 11 - Wk: 125 Date: 9/2/2025 7:30:59 PM |