Madison seeks repairs on Downtown buildings as owner pursues demolition


Madison seeks repairs on Downtown buildings as owner pursues demolition


Once a “high class shopping district,” four nearly century-old buildings with distinctive, terra cotta facades just off Capitol Square and State Street are best known these days for being rundown and mostly empty for decades.

But that may soon change.

The city is ordering Hovde Properties to make exterior repairs to the series of adjoining, one-story buildings from 119 to 125 W. Mifflin St. But Hovde is seeking to raze the buildings and landscape the area until a long-sought, much larger redevelopment, including a new Wisconsin Historical Society Museum and private development, occurs in coming years....

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