A vacant former sanatorium and nursing home in Eau Claire’s Shawtown neighborhood will be remodeled into an apartment complex with 200 residential units as well as commercial space under a plan approved by the Eau Claire City Council. The City Council voted .
“Last year, I drove through downtown Eau Claire for the first time in 20 years, and I was amazed at the transformation,” the new owner Brian Dohmen, managing partner of Altitude Capital Partners in Chicago, told a meeting of the Shawtown Neighborhood Association .