Owners of the former General Motors site in Janesville say the city is ghosting them over the city’s plans to force sale of the 250-acre property.
The Janesville City Council’s vote this week to gift $2 million to the planned Children’s Museum of Rock County could be key to the downtown project becoming a reality, the president of the nonprofit behind the museum reflected Wednesday.
The old cliché: “When one door closes . . .” couldn’t be truer than for Rod Gottfredsen, owner of Austin’s Barber Shop.
Cars lined up Tuesday in the parking outside Kohl’s at the Uptown Janesville Mall, watching as a large crane dug into the south wall of a former Sears building, crumpling it like paper maché.
An $80 to $90 million development project is being proposed along Shirland Avenue in South Beloit.
Plans to demolish a longtime Famous Dave’s barbecue restaurant at Milton Avenue and Humes Road will move forward, allowing for construction of a new drive-thru chicken restaurant there.
The fate of a Famous Dave’s restaurant in the 3000 block of Milton Avenue, which is proposed to be demolished and replaced with drive-thru restaurant Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers, will be the focus of a public hearing Monday before the city of Janesville’s Plan Commission.
Rock County will explore selling its health care center, which is mostly vacant.
The City of Beloit has about $6 million in Tax Incremental District funds to use as incentives for developers to create more affordable housing units in the city.
Zoxx Social Club has had different names over the years but it’s always been a bar for General Motors workers and southside Janesville residents, with a close-knit neighborhood feel.