A roughly $300 million remake of Madison’s largest concentration of low-income housing on part of “the Triangle” downtown is finalizing its $50 million first phase, the Wisconsin State Journal reports.
The city’s Community Development Authority (CDA) on Monday submitted plans for the initial phase of the redevelopment, which will take the total number of housing units at its five sites from 336 to 1,216. In addition to the housing sites, the CDA owns a small Asian grocery store, all on 10.5 acres bounded by West Washington Avenue and South Park Street.
The master plan, “Taking Shape, Our Triangle,” would ultimately raze five residential buildings and the grocery store for multiple new structures ranging from three to 12 stories and extending the East Campus Mall through the site to reach Lake Monona.
Phase One would deliver a five-story building with 164 units at the corner of Braxton Place and La Mariposa Lane — now a surface parking lot and construction staging area — starting in late 2024 and concluding in 2026. It would also include offices for CDA management and service providers, art and library spaces, a resident fitness room, meeting rooms, a community kitchen, garden plots, pet areas, and more.
The CDA would then demolish the 10-story Brittingham Apartments to construct two more five-story buildings with an additional 180 units, to be completed in 2028. Other demolitions and phases would follow with the full plan complete by roughly 2036. The phasing plan aims to ensure no residents will be displaced.
The project requires a conditional use permit from the Plan Commission and certified survey map approval by the City Council.
