City of Wausau officials and a team of architects and graduate students from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Monday will present development concepts for 16 acres of riverfront property in the city.
The city in June 2011 purchased the 16 acres between Bridge and Scott streets for $2.6 million. Later that month, the citys Planning Department held a day of roundtable design discussions, also known as charrettes, to generate ideas on how to develop the property.
The team from Community Design Solutions, which is part of the UW-Milwaukees School of Architecture and Urban Planning, also attended the meeting to gather land use ideas generated by roundtable participants. The team will show its designs to the public during the Monday open house, held from 4 pm to 6 pm in the first floor conference room of the Dudley Tower.
The designs developed by CDS include ways to emphasize public access to the Wisconsin River, opening up the space for outdoor activities and ways to accommodate residential and commercial development, according to a news release about the open house.
The approximately 100 people who participated in the June 2011 charrettes and the public are invited to attend the open house to view CDS ideas.