As Madison and McFarland officials seek to simplify their existing municipal border and agree on future annexation boundaries, some Blooming Grove residents are vying to join the village rather than the capital city. 

McFarland’s Village Board expects residents in the April Hills area of the town of Blooming Grove — a subdivision of roughly 150 homes and 350 people — to file an annexation petition to stave off attachment to Madison, which scheduled for Oct. 31, 2027. Other sections of the town, which is dissolving, would still attach to Madison per the terms of a 2006 agreement.

April Hills residents cited concerns about higher taxes in Madison, the proximity of McFarland’s emergency services and their stronger ties to the village at a January meeting about the general terms of a potential deal between the city and the village.

When the first wave pools began appearing in development plans a decade ago, they were easy to dismiss as real estate theater. Renderings showed perfect barrels curling beside apartment buildings and boutique hotels, promising to turn landlocked sites into coastal fantasies. For developers, the pitch was compelling. A surf lagoon could attract attention, accelerate leasing, and reshape the identity of an entire project. But until recently, most surf parks existed only on paper or were embedded within broader mixed use developments where their individual performance was hard to isolate. Now, as the first generation of large scale surf anchored districts opens, the real estate industry is entering a new phase. The question is no longer whether surf parks can be built. It is whether they can operate as durable commercial assets.

The world’s largest tech companies are vastly understating the economic risk tied to their data center leasing deals, according to a new report from Moody’s Ratings.

At least half a trillion dollars in data center lease commitments are invisible in tech giants’ financial reporting, and the actual volume of this phantom spending is likely far higher. 

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Landscape architecture has long occupied an ambiguous position within architectural culture. In its early European lineage, landscape design was closely aligned with aristocratic display. Far from being a shared civic system or public right, formal gardens such as Versailles used landscaping as an expression of power, a microcosm of political hierarchy and territorial control. Even as public parks emerged in the nineteenth century, they were often framed as relief from the city, not as structural components of it. Buildings and roads defined urban order; the landscape was treated as an amenity, often seen as an urban tool aimed at increasing real estate value.

That hierarchy reflected the priorities of its time. Industrial expansion and rapid urbanization placed emphasis on density and construction speed, while opening the door to speculation. Architecture appeared to shape the city’s identity, while landscape simply softened its edges or added a decorative flair. The ground was something to decorate or escape to, not something that organized urban life. Today, these assumptions are increasingly untenable.

MADISON, Wis. — The City of Madison is launching the third year of its Building Energy Savings Program, expanding requirements to commercial buildings over 25,000 square feet.

Owners must benchmark energy use by June 30, and buildings over 100,000 square feet must complete tune-ups by Oct. 30.

City leaders say the program is already seeing strong compliance and could significantly cut energy costs and carbon emissions as it enters its final phase.

Many companies don’t publicly report details on data center business they do, so it’s impossible to tally total economic impact in Wisconsin. But there are other examples.

Trane Technologies is manufacturing cooling systems for data centers in La Crosse, where it was founded in 1913, and says data centers are a strong part of its business. In November 2023, Excellerate opened a 385,000-square-foot plant in Little Chute, primarily to manufacture “modular electrical buildings” for data centers. Maysteel, a Washington County manufacturer, opened a data center hub in November 2024 and announced in February it is expanding the operation.

The sheer demand to outfit data centers has meant that some business has trickled down from larger companies to smaller ones.

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• Downtown Milwaukee`s halted Edison apartment high-rise site at 1005 N. Edison St. in Milwaukee.
  
  
• The former Harri Hoffmann Co. building and its adjacent vacant lot in the 125-129 N. Water St. block has been proposed to be redeveloped as a Marriott Tribute Portfolio hotel in Milwaukee.
  
  
• A vacant lot at 234 S. Water St. is proposed to be redeveloped as Admiral`s Wharf apartments in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
  
  
• 610 E. Summerfest Place (upper center-left), a site planned for small condo townhouse development in Milwaukee on Jan. 28, 2026.
  
  
• A building at 790 N. Jackson St., is proposed to be converted into a boutique hotel in Milwaukee.
  
  
• The former Humphrey Scottish Rite Masonic Center, at 790 N. Van Buren St.,is proposed to be converted into apartments in Milwaukee.
  
  
• A vacant lot at 1504 E. North Ave. is proposed to be redeveloped as apartments in Milwaukee.

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Madison Commercial Real Estate LLC	St. John Properties	IA Management, LLC	Wisconsin Commercial Real Estate
Park Towne Realty LLC	Mullins Group, LLC	Crown Commercial	Flad Development & Investment Corp.
Evans Properties, LLC	Keller Real Estate Group		MIG Commercial Real Estate, LLC
First Weber Group, Inc - West Towne	Opitz Realty, Inc.	First Weber Group, Inc - Prairie Du Sac	Peterson Management Company Inc.
The Lenhart Company, Inc	Scott Faust & Associates	Shamrock Real Estate Services, LLC	Targa, Inc
Executive Management, Inc	Stark Commercial - East	Urban Land Interests	Slinde Realty Company
Assist-2-Sell/Pohlkamp & Associates	Berkshire Hathaway Home Services Matson Real Estate	Artisan Graham Real Estate

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