Mayor Paul Soglin: City and Judge Doyle Square developer `aligned` on building hotel


Mayor Paul Soglin: City and Judge Doyle Square developer `aligned` on building hotel


After the city of Madison and Beitler Real Estate claimed each had defaulted on the terms of their development agreement, Mayor Paul Soglin reiterated Tuesday that both parties are working toward building a hotel downtown as part of the Judge Doyle Square project.

The city and its development partner, Beitler Real Estate, have disagreed over portions of the project for about the last year.

“We are aligned in the singular goal of getting the hotel constructed, and if people would silence themselves in regard to any personal feelings involved in this matter, it would certainly help,” Soglin said at a press conference Tuesday...

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Ken Notes: I wrote, in my op-ed above, that the press, some of the attorneys, and some council members may not be helping the process and as ugly as it may seem a project of this magnitude is a process. We have a public records issues when some of the discourse becomes public as in this case.

The Mayor is 100% correct that “When you’re negotiating these matters, public discussion does not help when you’ve got some people, who I think, probably want this thing to fail,”.

When a project is approved and even more so when it is in the dirt the political part of the process is over! I am now fully supportive of the City and the developer -- and in case you forgot this was not my favorite proposal. One more thing -- we have very good professionals in our development department please let them do their jobs.

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