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The city’s economic development committee approved a major new project in Riverlife If a plan presented Thursday is Riveron and Ohde proposal, pointing ultimately approved, the city will out that they were the developers have three more buildings in its to finally turn around the troubled Riverlife Development area. first phase of the Riverlife developThe city’s economic development ment. “They took over what could be committee Thursday approved a plan politely described as a disaster and by T.Wall Enterprises of Madison turned it into a successful, completed for a three-building development in project,” Kilian says. Viegut told the an open tract of land in the Riverlife committee at Kilian’s questioning area. The plan will build three mixedthat the design could be changed to use buildings including ground floor meet the committee’s goals for Rivercommercial space for restaurants and life. Kilian was the sole voice to vote retail with 123 units total over the against approving T.Wall. three buildings. Terrance Wall told the commitThe committee chose T.Wall’s tee that their customers tend to be plan over a less expensive and less relatively affluent, with about half expansive plan by local developers under the age of 30; in other words, Mitch Viegut, Fernando Riveron a mix of empty nesters and young and Bob Ohde. Viegut, Riveron and professionals. That would add people Ohde took over the first troubled with disposable income downtown. Riverlife project, finally finishing the T.Wall is known for green building first residential project on the site techniques and helped start the first after its first developer, Mike Frantz, green building college course in the failed to come up with the financing ▲ A rendering provided by Mudrovich Architects shows what the latest Riverlife proposal would look like. country, Wall says. to complete it, and the second, GorThe T.Wall proposal scored higher is what I was talking about,” Committee member Lisa man and Company, punted on the project to work on The on the criteria set out in the request for proposals, accordRasmussen says. Rasmussen pointed out that it was alLandmark’s redevelopment instead. ing to memos from city staff. T.Wall’s scored 89, versus ways the city’s goal that the Riverlife area would first and Committee members liked the plan from T.Wall in part only 44 for the Viegut proposal. foremost be and feel accessible to the public, and not the because the separate buildings provide a plaza that leads The design of the building is meant to reflect the area’s backyard of the people who live down there. to the riverfront, making it accessible to the public. The history of lumber operations and then manufacturing, But Committee Member Tom Kilian praised the Viegut, developers say. commercial spaces surround that plaza. “That separation
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