Judge Doyle Square hotel takes another step toward construction

The city’s Downtown is closer to getting a long-awaited hotel.

The developer of the project announced Monday that it has purchased the site at Judge Doyle Square and has secured financing for a 262-room Embassy Suites by Hilton.

The hotel, part of a years-in-the-making $175 million redevelopment of property northeast of the Madison Municipal Building, has gone through several iterations, and in October Beitler Real Estate Services agreed to hand over the rights to Mortenson Development to build the nine-story hotel for the two-block, private-public redevelopment...

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Ken Notes: Remember Judge Doyle Square??? A great update here.

Now if we just had a terrace to terrace public, "tourist friendly", transit system -- we would be in business. I like an on street rubber wheel electric trolley/streetcar design. I wonder if this makes more sense for someone in the private sector, it would cash flow and the Utilities would get on board.