NEWS & BLOGS

Readying to Rise: Sears demolition Underway, Woodman's Center Ahead

Mar 20, 2024 News

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.

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Multi-Use Development Proposed in South Beloit

Mar 19, 2024 News

An $80 to $90 million development project is being proposed along Shirland Avenue in South Beloit.

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Janesville Plan Commission: Famous Dave's Demolition Can Proceed, Making Way for Chicken Drive-Thru

Mar 18, 2024 News

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.

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Famous Dave's or Raising Cane's? Janesville Plan Commission will hear plans for new chicken restaurant

Mar 16, 2024 News

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.

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Rock County Board Recommends Selling Health Care Center

Mar 14, 2024 News

Rock County will explore selling its health care center, which is mostly vacant.

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TID Housing Fund Application Process Outlined

Mar 13, 2024 News

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.

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Former GM Worker Bar Zoxx Social Club is Still a Southside Hangout. Now, in The Path of City Plans to Redevelop the GM Site, its Future is Uncertain

Mar 13, 2024 News

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.

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At Forum, Milton Council Candidates Focus on Housing, Taxes, Growth

Mar 13, 2024 News

Affordable housing, communication with the public and the impact of city growth and development on taxpayers were key issues discussed Tuesday night at a forum for Milton Common Council candidates, hosted by the Rock County Civics Academy.

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Raven's Wish Owner Says it's Time to Pass on Janesville Art Gallery

Mar 12, 2024 News

Raven’s Wish has been a downtown Janesville artists’ hub and gallery since 2007. Now, owner Alicia Reid has decided to sell it.

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Rock County Board Weighs Giving ARPA Funds to Children's Museum

Mar 11, 2024 News

The Rock County Board on Thursday will consider giving $500,000 in COVID-19-era American Rescue Plan Act relief funds to the capital campaign for the planned Rock County Children’s Museum.

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