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Article: Madison searches for north side solution: Redevelopment could spark area's resurrection
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- Daily Reporter (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- February 16, 2009
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Madison's north side is bleeding millions in potential consumer
spending, and the city wants to plug the hole with a multiyear
redevelopment plan.
"There are a number of opportune sites for redevelopment in the
next 10 years," said Jule Stroick, a neighborhood planner in the
Madison Department of Planning & Community & Economic Development.
"But the north side has a lot of competition from the east side, Sun
Prairie, Waunakee and DeForest.
"There's a study that says 50 percent of consumer dollars leaked
out of the area in the last few years," Stroick said.
According to Brookfield-based R.A. Smith National Inc.'s economic