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After Janesville's city council questioned why city staff had not formally put the vacant, unused former city ice arena up for sale, despite the council's direction to do so months ago, city staff has returned with a slew of options for the property at 821 Beloit Ave.
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The city of Janesville is working with Kansas State University's Technical Assistance to Brownfields group to conduct an environmental assessment and reuse plan on the former ice arena that the council voted to sell rather than demolish.
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JANESVILLE— The city of Janesville and private boosters may need to seek out other state funding sources for the Woodman’s Sports & Convention Center after the legislature’s Joint Finance Committee on Thursday cut $15 million earmarked for the project out of the proposed state biennial budget.
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A group of Janesville residents continues to press for a ballot referendum on whether the city should borrow millions of dollars of public money to build the Woodman’s Sports and Convention Center.
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JANESVILLE—Pinning down what a Janesville “taxpayer watchdog” group is proposing—or who the group members are — is hard, but it appears to be rallying local taxpayers to stand against the proposed Woodman’s Sports and Convention Center.
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JANESVILLE—Backers of the proposed Woodman’s Sports and Convention Center got a big dose of holiday cheer Thursday. City officials and private boosters of the two-sheet ice arena and convention center heard what they’ve been waiting for for months: that in a Congressional thumbs up, the project was granted $5 million in federal funding.
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JANESVILLE — In a 5-2 vote, the Janesville City Council has approved borrowing $17.3 million for the Woodman's Sports and Convention Center.
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JANESVILLE–If the Janesville City Council decides to move ahead Monday night on a borrowing package for the Woodman’s Sports and Convention Center, the amount is likely to be $17.3 million.
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If it’s built and run under current plans, a consultant estimates the Woodman’s Sports and Convention could operate in the red every year through at least 2028.
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JANESVILLE — The Woodman’s Sports and Convention Center got an additional $1 million boost Wednesday from the locally-headquartered grocer that already has naming rights for the proposed project at the Uptown Janesville mall.