- Now for an update away from the state capitol,
the former General Motors plant in Janesville is coming down to
be rebuilt for future use.
The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation this
week announced it is putting a half million dollars toward the
demolition.
Six buildings in the former assembly plant will be razed.
The demo is expected to be completed in two years.
Remediation and redevelopment will take several more years.
A commercial real estate company then plans to turn the property
into about 1 million square feet of industrial and warehouse
space.
Also this week, a new state office building in Milwaukee
will be named after the late civil rights leader Vel
Phillips.
Phillips passed away in April at the age of 95.
She was the first African-American woman on the
Milwaukee Common Council and the first African-American woman to
hold state-wide office as secretary of state.