Proposed hotel near Merrimac ferry postponed

A hotel in Merrimac near the Merrimac ferry’s north terminal will not move forward, the Wisconsin State Journal reported. 

The Colsac Lodge, a 43-room hotel with a restaurant and dining hall on the Wisconsin River, was determined by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation to contain an entrance on Highway 78 to be too close to Wisconsin Street, where drivers line up for the ferry. 

The hotel would have sat on a 3.9-acre plot just off Palisade Street. 

The DOT wants the access point west of its initial placement, but land would need to be purchased to make it happen and the current landowner doesn`t want to sell it now...

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RSK: Too bad they could not work out a lease agreement ror a rental of the strip or other creative ideas. Notice the trend here or outside Madison where these developments are occurring.