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Article: Madison hotel proposal worries project neighbors
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- Daily Reporter (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- January 15, 2009
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Madison's Bay Creek residents do not want a hole in the ground as
the only tangible proof they will one day get a hotel in their
neighborhood.
If they must wait for a hotel proposal to turn into reality,
representatives from the neighborhood near the South Park Street
corridor said they would rather stare at the vacant building they
now have.
"I haven't heard anybody raise objections to the hotel idea,"
said Bob Stoffs, a Madison resident and member of the Bay Creek
Neighborhood Association. "But the worst-case scenario would be
another Hilldale-type hole that just sits in the ground for years."
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