Judge Doyle Square

As Quad Capital Partners forwards a proposal for a 14-story mixed-use project at 121 E. Wilson St., the larger Wilson Street corridor is rippling with redevelopment.

QCP’s proposal would be the third-largest housing project offered in all of Downtown in the past five years, following only the “Oliv” project with 386 units under construction on the 300 block of State Street and the “Trinitas” project with 341 units approved on the 700 block of Regent Street.

It has taken more than a decade, but work to complete the massive, $175 million Judge Doyle Square project Downtown may finally be coming to an end.

Mortenson Development, of Minneapolis, which assumed construction rights for a nine-story, 260-room hotel at the project site from Beitler Real Estate Services, of Chicago, last year, is now moving to take over rights for the last piece of the two-block redevelopment: an 11-story, 222-unit apartment building and parking garage.

In the latest turn of a winding saga, the developer chosen to do the massive $175 million Judge Doyle Square project Downtown is now seeking to step aside from another major piece of the redevelopment — the centerpiece hotel to serve Monona Terrace.

Beitler Real Estate Services, of Chicago, is looking to transfer its development rights for a nine-story, 260-room hotel on the 200 block of South Pinckney Street to Minneapolis-based Mortenson Development. The change of hands — and several City Council actions needed to make it happen — is inching up on a December deadline to secure financing for the hotel.

Starting Monday, drivers in downtown Madison will be able to park in the new Wilson Street Garage, part of the Judge Doyle Square complex that has been under construction since 2017.  

The new underground municipal garage at 20 E. Wilson St. is the first completed element of the large and complex JDS redevelopment project. Situated behind the Madison Municipal Building and between Doty and Wilson Streets, it will replace the city’s first publicly-owned garage, Government East, built in 1958.