Plus: A recap of the week s real estate news. By Jeramey Jannene - May 23rd, 2021 08:08 pm //end headline wrapper ?>Wisconsin Center expanded exhibition hall. Rendering by tvsdesign and Eppstein Uhen Architects.
The Wisconsin Center District is pushing forward on its bet that large, in-person gatherings will return by 2024. The first site work on a $420 million expansion project will start in July. Formal construction will begin in January and take approximately two years.
The district board was briefed on the effort by the project team during its Friday morning meeting.
“Where we are now is we’ve completed schematic design. We’re in the design development phase,” said
Holyoke expects federal stimulus money will prevent fiscal 2022 cuts
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HOLYOKE Federal stimulus funding should prevent cuts to the Holyoke Public School’s fiscal 2022 operating budget.
Acting Superintendent Anthony Soto outlined budget goals during Monday’s virtual School Committee meeting. The district is expecting $40 million in American Rescue Plan money.
Class sizes should stay at the current levels but could change as the stimulus dollars hit the system, he said.
“We’re going to be rolling out a significant amount of federal dollars,” Soto said.
He added, “The budget is built with a vision in mind and a pathway for every student” with both academic and career options.
Eight-story project on Prospect delayed. Developer requests 5 more years for a parking lot. By Jeramey Jannene - May 18th, 2021 05:00 pm //end headline wrapper ?>2135 N. Prospect Ave. Photo by Jeramey Jannene.
There is still hope that the final piece of a 2005 redevelopment plan for the Kenilworth complex will happen.
The Common Council approved a zoning change that year that allowed a development group to redevelop the Kenilworth Building complex, 2185 N. Prospect Ave., into a student housing facility for UW-Milwaukee, the Kenilworth Square Apartments, a home for the Peck School of the Arts and first-floor retail space. A public pedestrian street between the two buildings that front N. Prospect Ave. and N. Farwell Ave. was created to provide access to the Oak Leaf Trail.
John Hopkins, colourful US novelist who chronicled the louche expat scene in Tangier – obituary
A central figure in the group that included Paul and Jane Bowles, he lived in a mud hut in the Marrakesh oasis with a Dutch baroness
John Hopkins in Paris in 1999
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John Hopkins, who has died aged 83, was an American novelist and diarist, best known for The Tangier Diaries, a literary history of Tangier from 1962 to 1979. Encouraged in his writing by Paul Bowles, he was a central figure in the group that included Jane Bowles, Tennessee Williams, William Burroughs and Brion Gysin.