Basketball player turned developer excited about Park Street project

When Julian Walters was playing professional basketball in Europe, he thought he had the next decade of his life planned out. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and his career abruptly came to a halt.

“You have this idea in your head of how your life is going to go,” he said. “I wasn’t quite ready to not play basketball yet.”

He returned to Madison, where he was born and raised, using his time in isolation to explore another long-term interest: real estate. Now, Walters is preparing to open his first major development, Park Lofts, a 44-unit affordable housing project at 1150 S. Park St...