[CPEO-BIF] Highway Department site, Jefferson, Wisconsin

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

County, city discuss future of 'old' highway shop site

By Amy Smith
Daily Jefferson County Union (WI)
December 4, 2014

JEFFERSON - The Jefferson County Infrastructure Committee met with  
officials from the City of Jefferson Wednesday to discuss possible  
options when the Highway Department moves its shop to its new site.

Construction is well under way on the $15.37 million facility, for  
which a ground-breaking ceremony was held Aug. 11. Located at 1425  
Wisconsin Drive (County Highway W) on the west side of Jefferson, the  
site of the former Countryside Home, the highway shop will be home to  
the Highway Department’s entire fleet of 60-plus vehicles.

In the wake of the upcoming move to the new facility, the city has  
expressed interest in the current 25-acre site located on the Rock  
River, which could revitalize a downtown and riverfront redevelopment  
plan that the city had orignally implemented in 2006.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailyunion.com/news/article_9be628e4-7bc3-11e4-8554- 
f342a3cc0ffb.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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