Market Insights

Woodman's Sports & Convention Center Newly released drawings show the front exterior of the planned Woodman’s Sports & Convention Center.

Coldwell Banker Commercial McGuire Mears & Associates announces the purchase of the commercial real estate brokerage business by new ownership. The office is located at 400 Midland Court, Suite 101, in Janesville.

A field of ragweed and bull thistle stands near the site of the former Ossit Church Furniture factory off the Hyatt Street bluff, east of Traxler Park in Janesville. The old industrial site as early as this week will start to see transformation to become Rock View Townhouses, a planned development of two eight-unit apartment buildings. The site is just east of an active Union Pacific rail line in a circa-1900 working-class neighborhood just north of downtown Janesville.

Outdoor event space An outdoor space funded by the 100 Extraordinary Women initiative is part of the planned expansion of Whitewater’s Irvin L. Young Memorial Library.

The empty lot on South Jackson Street near Monterey Park, is the proposed site of an $11 million new Boys & Girls Club of Janesville. The proposed 32,000 square-foot building is about three times larger than the current building.

The Beloit Ho-Chunk Nation casino and resort project could add up to 1,500 jobs in the area. The project received its final federal approval from the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 2022.

Rock County plans to move its Veterans Services Office out of Beloit’s Eclipse Center at the end of this year, and if the current plan comes to fruition, the county will pay more than $33,000 in additional rent per year to consolidate operations into one location.

Those will be among the options if a developer moves forward on a plan to build a Dairy Queen restaurant on a street-side lot just west of the U.S. Post Office along Janesville’s busy Milton Avenue retail corridor.

A Janesville auto dealer with several locations throughout town is looking relocate to a new part of the city.

Government funding for the Woodman’s Sports and Convention Center may not be a done deal yet, but line item vetoes in the Governor’s biennial budget are leaving the door open.