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City Council gave its endorsement of Dolores Huerta Preparatory High School on Monday by unanimously approving a subdivision that provides land for the new school building. Developers of the Parkside Estates Subdivision asked council to modify their subdivision plans to create 61 single-family lots and one large parcel for the school. Several Hyde Park residents and parents and students from the school attended Monday's meeting to lobby council to approve the subdivision. Council's only significant concerns were: Who would build sidewalks along 22nd Street and when would they be built? Typically in a subdivision, the city requires the developer to build all roads and sidewalks in the area. For this project, DHPH will build the sidewalks and infrastructure surrounding the school, but council had questions about the sidewalks on 22nd Street, a block north of the school.
COXSACKIE -- When former Coxsackie Mayor Henry Rausch looks out the back porch of a model home of a planned community he manages here off Van Dyke Street, he sees a lot of potential. Rausch is property manager of Mountain View Estates, a community of 280 modular homes planned for a 108-acre tract of land owned by UMH Properties Inc., a New Jersey real estate development company. .
In Texas hold 'em poker, an out is a card that will "make your hand" -- or make you a winner. For example, if you've got in your hand the king and the queen of spades, and a 10 and a jack of spades are on the board, then you've got a lot of outs to make a flush, a straight, or a big pair. In other words, although you haven't "made your hand" yet, you have a high probability of getting lucky. I believe manufactured housing (MH) is an industry with a lot of outs. I'm bullish precisely because there are so many reasons to be bearish. So many bad things have happened in the industry -- extending a downward cycle -- that not only has most of this bad news been priced in, leading to some tantalizing valuations, but also not much more can go wrong. A hangoverIn 1998, the industry shipped about 370,000 manufactured housing units.
WHAT: Presentation of the final plans for a new home to be built on the vacant lot at 1112 Villa St.WHEN: 6 p.m. Wednesday WHERE: St. Catherine's High School, 1200 Park Ave.Architects, UW-Milwaukee students joining forces for revitalization projectsRACINE - The vacant lot at 1112 Villa St. may soon become a single-family home as part of a project aimed at getting architects to work directly with neighborhoods to make them better.The project grew out of a charge the American Institute of Architects gave its chapters: Find a way to give something back to your communities.John Holz, incoming president of the American Institute of Architects-Milwaukee, said their membership wanted to show the community "architects are in the trenches, rolling up their sleeves and working for them."Holz, who is also a senior project designer at Plunkett Raysich Architects in Milwaukee, charged architecture students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with designing affordable, single-family homes for select sites in Racine and Milwaukee."In our initiative, we're not just putting up a house on a vacant lot," he said.
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