The Week Ahead: Allied, Allied, Allied Again
Lots of double and triple booked people this week . . . and a whole lot more Allied Drive.MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 2008(I just noticed,...
Nuisance Abatements and Evictions
I was at a meeting of the Allied Drive Task force and was amazed when one of the Assistant City Attorneys explained how excited...
Allied: Agreement Broken, Now What?
For nearly two months I've been asking a question . . . and I get at least a partial answer in the newspaper today.Financing...
CDA – No, you can’t see our WHEDA application.
During the approval of the Allied Drive project, one of the talking points of the CDA advocates was that they would be far more...
Common Council Recap: 1/8/2008
Snooze.In fact, I just realized that it was so boring that I didn't even preview the meeting. Ooops, sorry, I was too busy...
I made a mistake.
Gasp. Horror! That's right, yesterday, I made a mistake. One is bound to do that from time to time. The...
Allied Drive – No budget, contradication and a road with little detail.
Q: When is a road not a road?A: When it involves the Allied Drive neighborhood and the Mayor.So, hunting down the details...
Common Council Recap
A three hour meeting took care of a 839 page packet of information for the meeting . . . not too bad. Here's...
What? What is the CDA doing?
Why does WARF - the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery - want the CDA to give them $300,000 for their $180M bond project? And...
Allied Over Budget
Ahem.I saw this a little late to post much this morning.And most of what I have to say, isn't fit to print, even on...
City Owned Properties at Allied Drive
The City of Madison made the decision to buy properties on Allied Drive last summer. The properties have 129 apartments and 9 buildings....
Allied Drive – 50% Homeownership
Well, here we go, some of the issues I have raised about affordable housing on Allied Drive, the property the City bought there and...