As Dane County extends its hotel shelter program for the homeless, its partnership with the Madison Plaza Hotel is ending, according to a Wisconsin State Journal report. The county will change hotel partners by the end of September as a developer has proposed converting the 197-room hotel, at 3821 E. Washington Ave., into 155 to 190 lower-cost studio and one-bedroom apartments. Since August 2021, the county has rented 100 rooms at the Madison Plaza as part of an arrangement to shelter homeless individuals at higher health risk if they contracted COVID-19.
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