Page 2 - Tom Clippert News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

The number of new home building permits issued in Janesville is on the rise.  City Building Director Tom Clippert says 146

A pending sale of the gargantuan former General Motors manufacturing property in Janesville that began rolling out late last year has fallen through, officials said.

Firefighter training key in rescue of 50 people from Janesville apartment fire Janesville Gazette (WI) The Janesville Fire Department had used the building at 120 St. Lawrence Ave. to train firefighters just one day before an actual fire barreled through the complex. Training in real structures is part of a regimen fire department officials said was key in saving dozens of lives when a fire started in the St. Lawrence Avenue building in the early-morning hours of March 28. Josh Uecker said the March 28 fire was the "most significant" call he has responded to in his 15-year career. It requ...

JANESVILLE The mammoth former General Motors plant site in Janesville is still idle—“buttoned up” for a long winter, as one local real estate broker put it. And sources say that likely will remain so for months as the owner of the former GM site awaits a state Department of Natural Resources environmental review that city officials said is now several months overdue, apparently delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on state agencies. That ties up about half of the 250-acre industrial brownfield property—by far the largest bloc of such land in Janesville he...