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Janesville City Manager Mark Freitag on Thursday night asked for a $2.5 million contribution from Rock County for the proposed Woodman’s Sports and Convention Center.

If plans progress to reactivate as a rail site the long-slumbering former JATCO site, just south of the former main General Motors plant property on Janesville’s south side, that could happen as soon as this fall, owners of the defunct industrial property say.

Janesville city officials and private stakeholders on Tuesday found consensus on this: a preliminary cost of nearly $60 million for the proposed Woodman’s Sports & Convention Center is a nonstarter.

An entry to the cleared former General Motors property on Janesville’s south side is blocked by barriers and gates in a 2021 Gazette file photo. Site owner Commercial Development Company announced Friday it plans an Aug. 31 junket to give the public details of a plan to redevelop the 127-acre JATCO site for use in intermodal freight transportation

Alliant Energy’s Paddock Solar Project in the Town of Beloit, began construction on Monday.

The sign for Sustain Ability Bulk Shoppe, a new grocery store coming to Janesville’s south side in September. The store at 1905 Center Ave. will offer ‘zero waste,’ unpackaged foods and home goods in bulk, and minus the standard, paper or plastic grocery store bags.

Genia Stevens, founder of Rock County Jumpstart, stands in front of the new location for the business resource agency. The new location will be at 2080 Sutler Ave, Beloit

As contractor Brandon Rossey peeled away a decades-old awning and façade this week on a vacant storefront at 922 Milton Ave., the name of a grocer founded here a century ago revealed itself on the wall beneath—one letter at a time.

Coldwell Banker Commercial McGuire Mears & Associates Helps Riley Capital Partners LLC Become DTBD Property Owner and Landlord

A global manufacturer of food and pharmaceutical equipment plans to build an 85,000-square-foot equipment repair facility on city land on Janesville’s east side.