JANESVILLE -- Janesville residents, city staff and committee members weighed in Thursday night at the first public open house focused on updating the city's zoning codes.
JANESVILLE — A Midwest chain known for its roast beef sandwiches and cheddar fries says it plans to build three new restaurants in Janesville and Beloit, but with a twist.
It took hours, but a massive strawberry greenhouse development proposed on the south side—along with a few smaller future industrial and housing developments—shifted closer to reality Monday night.
Decisions are a couple months off, but by July the city of Janesville could have 140 acres of industrial-zoned land tacked onto the city’s south side—a major piece of a bid by a Milwaukee developer who plans to build a massive, 1.57-million-square-foot greenhouse operation there.
Hy-Vee’s plans to build out a new grocery and restaurant with a drive-thru pharmacy and an online grocery outbuilding off Humes Road and North Lexington Drive are headed to the Janesville City Council.
Despite two Janesville City Council members' effort to block it, the council on Monday approved a zoning change that adds a section of Wright Road off East Milwaukee Street as a street where gas station convenience stores can be built.
An Elkhorn business owner is taking his legal fight over $4,000 in Walworth County zoning citations he says were spurred by racism into civil court, according to a lawsuit filed last month against the zoning officer.
Medical offices and outpatient treatment facilities can now apply to locate in the city's manufacturing districts.
A proposed opioid addiction treatment clinic got the green light from the Janesville Plan Commission to move into an office space in an industrial building on the city’s northeast side, although it’s less than clear whether the company that plans the clinic will move forward with the project.
A landowner in the Rock County town of Plymouth apparently has given up on his bid to build a shooting range on his property.
