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Former GM and JATCO sites listed for $15.7 million
The former General Motors property in Janesville is being sold in two major pieces: the 114-acre site that houses the former auto plant and the 112-acre former Janesville Auto Transport Co. site south of the plant, according to a broker who is listing the parcels. The two pieces of property, along with several smaller...
Mar 28, 2018
New Storefronts Set to Open in Janesville's Former Menards
By Neil Johnson, The Janesville Gazette   JANESVILLE Two new stores are set to open this week in the redeveloped former Menards off Pontiac Drive on Janesville’s north side. Tara Furst, commercial properties manager for Galway Companies, which owns the property, said that by the end of the week, two tenants in the...
Mar 1, 2018
Inside The Global Race To Deliver A Vital Radioactive Isotope Used To Detect Cancer
JANESVILLE, Wis. — In a cornfield here, past the shuttered General Motors plant and the Janesville Terrace trailer home park, a facility not seen in the United States in three decades could soon rise: a manufacturing plant that will make a vital radioactive isotope used to detect cancer and other potentially fatal...
Feb 15, 2018
Janesville-Beloit MSA Named Among Top 40 Best-Performing Small Cities for 3rd Straight Year
Recent booms for United Alloy and other local companies have kept Janesville among the top 40 best-performing small cities in the U.S. for three straight years, according to a report released this month by California economic analyst Milkin Institute.   The Milkin report shows the Janesville area has surged ahead of...
Jan 21, 2018
Downtown Janesville Storefronts Getting a Dress-Up
Dan Andreola Jr. stood inside his newly renovated coin and jewelry shop, Daniel Michael’s Jewelry and Coin, marveling at the glazed brick walls.   The 1,200-square-foot corner space at 39 S. Main St. once was cubed off as a local campaign headquarters for Rep. Paul Ryan. Now it has been opened up all the way down...
Jan 18, 2018
Town of Beloit Ready to File Incorporation
TOWN OF BELOIT — Officials will submit the town’s incorporation petition on Monday, the first legal step to becoming the Village of Riverside. On Thursday, Town Administrator Ian Haas confirmed that Monday is the date incorporation attorney Stan Riffle will file the petition with the Rock County Circuit...
Jan 7, 2018
City Manager: Sale of Former Janesville GM Plant is a 'Gift'
JANESVILLE, WI — Wednesday’s announcement that the defunct General Motors plant had been sold comes nearly nine years to the day after the last SUV rolled off the plant’s assembly lines on Dec. 23, 2008. A few hours after he’d heard about the finalized sale of the 4.8-million-square-foot plant and its...
Dec 20, 2017
"Beer-Oriented Development" Fuels the Revitalization of Downtown Buffalo, NY
An energetic rebirth is taking place in an upstate New York city that was once very down on its luck. Millennials and young entrepreneurs are moving back to Buffalo as “re-pats,” staking their claim by helping revitalize a place they once fled. Thanks in part to Gov. Andrew Cuomo‘s controversial Buffalo...
Dec 10, 2017
New Mortgages Allow Renters to Buy With Tiny Down Payments
The down payment has been a big obstacle in recent years for renters looking to buy their first homes. A new mortgage offering aims to ease the burden. Home Partners of America, a rent-to-own company, is offering a new mortgage product to tenants that applies some of the appreciation in their home’s value during...
Dec 6, 2017
Janesville Policy Changes Aim to Make Downtown a Destination
JANESVILLE—Imagine a downtown with relaxed rules on outdoor drinking and music, fun and unusual shops and restaurants, and more money to ensure the area stays attractive and vibrant. That’s the goal of several policy changes the city has implemented over the past several months. Officials said they’re...
Dec 4, 2017